Cthulhu Detonator - Infernal Machines

[Zephyr_Nova]

...or just download it for free here: http://cthulhudetona...fernal-machines

 

The music falls somewhere between Merzbow and GY!BE. It is perhaps atypical for the noise genre as it is quite structured and sometimes melodic/rhythmic, but I don't know what else to classify it is. It's in the spirit of noise music in any case. Hopefully some of you will enjoy it!

[Goiter Sanchez]

Amazing album! This gives almost any other noise project I've listened to utterly to shame!

[Zephyr_Nova]

Thanks Goiter, those are some high accolades!

 

I just fixed up the cover and reuploaded the art for anyone who's disturbed by the typo.

[Goiter Sanchez]

Speaking of typos, I meant 'puts', not 'gives'.

[Root5]

Amazing album. It's really difficult to get noise music this engaging.

[Jaffa]

I'll just echo everyone else's comments here by saying this album is brilliant. Absolutely love the track 'Blinding White Light'.

[Zephyr_Nova]

Thanks a lot guys!

[Zephyr_Nova]

I just got my first review here: http://noisemuzakreview.blogspot.co.uk/

 

The guy who writes these reviews also runs a noise label, Red Venice Records Http://redvenicerecords.bandcamp.com --it's mostly harsher noise stuff, but a lot of good stuff. Schallruch's Wakegaze album is particularly strong. He/she/they makes noise you can go swimming in.

[Zephyr_Nova]

If anyone here speaks Italian, I'd love to hear a decent translation of what this reviewer is saying: http://dundundudu.blogspot.it/2012/11/cthulhu-detonator-infernal-machines.html

 

Here's the amusing freetranslation.com version:

 

Nyarlathotep yaaay. Ok, to part cthulhu, this album is an attractive and good grenade. The stylistic base is that of those boxes harsh/wall that depopulate on bandcamp from a couple of anni to this part and that you are formed, usually, from two side, both that turn around the dozen of minutes and that compongono a sole long suite noise. The difference between the above-mentioned album (moreover very agreeable to the signed) and Infernal Machines, is, beyond that in the slightly more catchy than attitude wraps every track (for charity, is not that I am yourselves proponendo the rolling stones, is that simply this album is not so aggressive like some suite wall stretch out to be), I said, beyond in the slightly more catchy attitude, in the same structure of the album, there is something of weird. How did I say first, of habit the album ambient/noise etc., go before two pieces to the time. The structure of this album is that of an album "pop", even if the songs I am several being at a distance from the conception shared of pop music. Ten pieces, with a media of about 5 minutes fall. It is a lot simpler to listen to Infernal machines that a whatever other album experimental noise. For certainties verses, it is also more attractive. There it is plus differentiation, every piece has an its violent identity, there is not plus nothing of ethereal, and I find that this absence is a pride for the music noise. There is not more nothing of uncertain, uncertain, shaky. This now of experimental music it is strong. QVESTO ALBVM IS THE albvm OF THE GIOVENTV' Italian No, I joke. If the experiments harsh and wall noise I am somehow a sort of extreme sperimentalismo, alone end to if same, this Infernal machines can be seen like a first outline of LP "ascoltabile" diverting from a tradition iperspecialistica and of listening seeds-impossible. What we waited for for some time, well. What I waited for for some time. Even if it a revolution is about to begin noise, and the work of Cthulhu detonator is of it a small messenger, the edge quivering some ink blot. Even if in the turn of an I annex it someone will arrive that it will sweep via all the music frocia, for the honor and the fervor of björko god. But even if also no. But we hope of yes. Less badly that a man can dream. (It have seen it the installment of futurama with the long thing? Here.) In the meanwhile, you enjoyed this small masterpiece, herald of the noises, that I did not do in time to descrivervi decently in the ardor of to announce the revoluciòn. Thanks.

 

 

[Zephyr_Nova]

Bumped with a review: http://stenchofishtar.wordpress.com/2012/12/09/cthulhu-detonator-infernal-machines/

[Zephyr_Nova]

Boom: http://americanaftermath.net/2012/12/31/review-cthulhu-detonator-infernal-machines/

[Guest facades]

I'm usually not very keen on noise music, but I had such a good surprise with Shatterscapes, I'm gonna give this one a try.

[Zephyr_Nova]

Cheers, thanks again for the support! I have some friends who couldn't even get through the first track, and others who really liked it despite not being into noise. Hopefully for you it will be another good surprise.

[Zephyr_Nova]

And another review bump: http://taoscillation.tumblr.com/

This one also lead to an offer to release another something of mine on cassette in April, courtesy of Null Religion Records: http://nullreligion.blogspot.ca/

Cool!

[Zephyr_Nova]

Two more surprise reviews out of the blue:

http://radiofreemidwich.wordpress.com/2013/03/08/rfm-attends-to-recent-downloads-cthulhu-detonator-deceiver-orange-annihilator-seth-cooke-petals/
http://touchingextremes.wordpress.com/2013/03/08/cthulhu-detonator-infernal-machines/

In other news, I've just sent the follow up album to Red Venice Records, who should be releasing it in the next month or two. I've also got a cassette release with Null Religion on the way, just got to finish up side B.

[Zephyr_Nova]

Here's an impressively thorough surprise review: http://misfitcity.org/2013/03/16/review-cthulhu-detonator-infernal-machines-album-2012-beneath-the-razor-squeals-and-data-blurts-theres-a-lot-of-composed-thought-going-on/

 

Probably the best review I`ve received, lots of quotable bits. The guesswork about what the sounds actually are is inaccurate as is always the case, but it was a valiant effort! I definitely appreciate the care that went into this one.

[Amphetadex]

Have to echo the previous sentiments, this is a very solid release, glad to hear it got you connected to same labels for further releases. Reminds me at times of KK Null, which, to me at least, is a very good thing. I'm curious, do you primarily work with digital or analogue equipment?

[Zephyr_Nova]

Thanks! I'll be sure to check out KK Null. So far the majority of noise recommendations I've received from watmm have been consistently awesome.

 

I use a mix of digital and analogue, but the track arrangements on this album were very reliant on substantial computer editing. A lot of the tracks I've done have started out as noise jams in the more traditional sense -an array of effects pedals, feedback loops, me making a lot of racket in general- and then I'll be inspired by certain segments of those jams to cut them up, pitch shift them, turn them into loops, process them, etc.... similar process to composing an IDM track. For the Null Religion cassette that's coming out however, side a is an all analogue in-studio performance of a prepared piece. Side b is a hypid of two separate recordings of the first live performance I did of that piece (one from a smart phone the other from a Zoom recorder), mixed with processed bits of the in-studio performance, all hacked up and mangled into something completely different.

[Amphetadex]

Yeah, the intersection between improvisational, live noise production and the very controlled environment of non-linear editing is a great place to create, and can deliver results distinct from what either of those environments produces alone. I definitely like the concept of using the duality of the cassette medium to emphasize the simultaneous separateness and intersection of those environments. I also love the incorporation of recording from a smartphone, it definitely fits the noise aesthetic of chaotic decay/change we can only have so much control over.

KK Null's works actually run along both sides of that intersection; he does a lot of guitar-work (including metal, in bands such as his group Zeni Geva) as well as working with equipment more readily considered electronics. I'd def recommend New Kind of Water, which he did with Jim O'Rourke, when it comes to his improvisational guitar-work, and Galactic Tornado for his more electronic fare. The album Number One he did with Z'EV and Chris Watson is also quite fascinating; Chris Watson provided field recordings and Z'EV provided experimental percussion, and Null took it all through a bunch of studio arranging and composition.

[ghOsty]

downloaded and planning to give it a listen tomorrow

[Zephyr_Nova]

Yeah, the intersection between improvisational, live noise production and the very controlled environment of non-linear editing is a great place to create, and can deliver results distinct from what either of those environments produces alone. I definitely like the concept of using the duality of the cassette medium to emphasize the simultaneous separateness and intersection of those environments. I also love the incorporation of recording from a smartphone, it definitely fits the noise aesthetic of chaotic decay/change we can only have so much control over.

 

KK Null's works actually run along both sides of that intersection; he does a lot of guitar-work (including metal, in bands such as his group Zeni Geva) as well as working with equipment more readily considered electronics. I'd def recommend New Kind of Water, which he did with Jim O'Rourke, when it comes to his improvisational guitar-work, and Galactic Tornado for his more electronic fare. The album Number One he did with Z'EV and Chris Watson is also quite fascinating; Chris Watson provided field recordings and Z'EV provided experimental percussion, and Null took it all through a bunch of studio arranging and composition.

Yeah, I'm interested in the deterioration of sound, and using recording methods that do anything but preserve the fidelity of the original sound source. It's not something I heard done very often, yet everyone owns a smart phone and has those recording capabilities. Why not have fun with it? It seems there's a lot of untapped potential there. I'm a huge fan of Jim O'Rourke, and recently picked up a Z'EV CD that caught my ear, so all those recommendations sound like they'd probably be right up my alley. Cheers!

 

 

downloaded and planning to give it a listen tomorrow

Right on, thanks for checking it out!

[kirm]

Downloaded this ages ago but only just got round to listening to it for some reason... Pleased I finally did listen to it, cause its proper good! Very impressed by this.

[Zephyr_Nova]

Awesome, I'm glad to hear it!

 

I've got another release on Null Religion coming out soon, featuring the studio version of this track:

And another full album due out any time now on Red Venice. That one will probably be the pay-what-you-want deal as well.