[mn019]
Rupor Udara / Kryptogen Rundfunk
Carnal Panzer Ritual / Sendung für deines Mark
- Rupor Udara - Demagnetizator [ mp3 excerpt ]
- Rupor Udara - Natural Evolution
- Rupor Udara - My Daughter Is No More
- Rupor Udara - Their Cold Hands [ mp3 excerpt ]
- Rupor Udara - Victoria Crucified
- Kryptogen Rundfunk - Sezieren des Raums
- Kryptogen Rundfunk - Maschinentanz [ mp3 excerpt ]
- Kryptogen Rundfunk - Mord
- Kryptogen Rundfunk - Erholt in der kryogen Zelle [ mp3 excerpt ]
- Kryptogen Rundfunk - Sowjetischer Morgen
Total time: 35:59
Format: CD-R, jewel case, 100 copies
Release date: 2003
Price: 7 €
Gathering two Russian projects involved in the Zhelezobeton label, this split demonstrates the cold, heart-freezing power electronics of Rupor Udara and the old-school electric discharges of Kryptogen Rundfunk in an essential and condensed 36 minutes.
As soon as the pulsating loops and suffocating piano lines of "Demagnetizator" kick in, Rupor Udara builds up an emotional and painfully brutal world of raw vocals and understated melancholy, with tracks such as "My Daughter Is No More" proving themselves to be monuments to his skills.
During the second part of the split, the focus shifts to Kryptogen Rundfunk's cunning abuse of analog retro-electronics and pounding drones. "Sendung für deines Mark" is only a small sampling of what this project has in store for us, but what a sampling it is. Mechanical loops duel with warm intoxicating bass drones for the spotlight, and once they've kicked in ("Maschinentanz"), there's no shutting down this engine.
The disc ends with the brief and climatic "Kill n' Dance", welding together the two projects for 2 minutes of chaotic drumbox madness and inhuman vocals.
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Reviews
Twilight Zone (November 23, 2003)
The delirious bite of Mother Russia is all enclosed in this split manufactured by French Mechanoise Labs. To introduce the contents we use as reference two more famous protagonists of these "cursed" dimensions, that is to say Haus Arafna and Wumpscut.
The 5 tracks of Rupor Udara result the most dynamic and interesting for creativity and experimentation. In "Carnal Panzer Ritual" there's an obsessive nebula of threatening atmospheres, samplings wrapped in mystery and oblivion, monochromatic dark-industrial sermons unexpectedly scourged by pitiless noise frequencies. Psychiatric reflections without echoes, sterile symphonies scattered into leaden lunatic asylums.
Kryptogen Rundfunk decides to impose more pounding lines and hypnotic loops, anyway the scenario remains gloomy, and tension never reduced. Dark basses in every path and fatal machines hidden in multiple terminal solutions. The sources of the electromagnetic terror.
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Industrial.org (by moron, March 07, 2004)
I wouldn't call Mechanoise Labs undervalued but I would say they deserve better ranking in the world of quality industrial purveyors. This latest offering for example combines elements of classic acts like Throbbing Gristle and SPK (pre-disco stuff of course) with a more contemporary dark orchestration like that emerging from the Cold Meat Industries camp plus manipulations best achieved with software. The hybrid of old factory and fresh electronics is an efficient one whose means of production is worth further investigation.
The first half of the recording is granted to Rupor Udara though the exact boundary point was initially unclear due to sneaky, tight fisted liner notes (the website solved the mystery for me). "Carnal Panzar Ritual" may sound like a Nazi skinhead's wet dream but here it is manifested as a varied collection of introspective pure industrial music complete with bursts of harsh noise, delicate radio like electronics, rhythmic constructions pulled out of deep distortion, the odd xylaphone and floor tom phrase, a Joy Division sense of melody and a vocal approach half way between Brighter Death Now and the tuneless meander of a Genesis P Orridge soliloquy. With songs based around short loops of sub bass beeps, backwards tape style edits swooping down like dirty scavengers and textural layers sliding constantly around, it reminds me a lof of Hunting Lodge though diversity comes in the form of Tin.RP like curiosity (unusual, unexpected bleeps and bleats). The fact that structure is more important and developed also shifts this a bit out of frame and together with the melodic content, one could almost see this as a post industrial view of the rock opera. Maruta Kommand with all stinky traces of EBM removed? Nurse With Wound interpreting classic Nintendo soundtracks? It's a little hard to peg beyond the rarefied cloud that is "pure industrial". I'll start with an easily granted coolness and leave it up to you to draw your own diagram.
Until I looked at the label's website I had now idea exactly where Kryptogen Runofunk grabbed control of the wheel but towards the latter half a few obviously new strains and cracks start to vein out. Loops seem to become more important as do the contributions of analog electronics. I find analog drumkits contextually confusing as they are both future retro (Metal Urbain) and contemporary (say Klangstabil) with different reference points depending on what time period you examine them under. Here they straddle both classic cold and warm eletronica and while it is still pleasant, it does change the mood from being inpenetrable to something more transient. The 10th track is probably my favourite and for some reason reminds me of an old Stahlbau tape that I wore the shit out before CDs became affordable to me.
The final collaborative track "Kill n Dance" struts in a manner that is both ridiculous and irresistibly infectious, with the latter verbiage easily applied to this release as a whole. Mechanoise Labs have done some good here bringing these noisy Russians to a wider audience and if I can stop dancing and killing for a second, I think I might just put this sucker on repeat.
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