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“Ten-Jin” is a sort of collaboration between the Japanese “Lust Vessel” and Italian “Urashima” label, two giants within the genre. It contains 6 tracks of various artists, of which some I know, but also some that are unknown to me.The first artist on this record is “Tongue Knax”, a mysterious project from the underbelly of Japan, which already has some releases under it’s name. The track is called “Compos Mentis As Inkubus” and starts with transceiver like, synth noise and eerie, modeled feedback tunes. The sounds stay pretty much the same throughout the whole track, except for some subtle changes of more synth noises and very faint vocal samples. Nevertheless a very good sounding track. The second artist is called “Thug Ribs”, and the track “Life Sentence”. Thug Ribs brings horrorish noise with scorching and screaming feedback, joined by delayed synthesizer sounds drenched in sickness. Illness and death comes to mind, perhaps a plague of an incurable virus, ravishing human and land. Very visual evoking content. “Mordant Karma” is the third artist, with a track called “Pollution”. It’s much the same as the previous one, but it sounds more harsher on the edges. It’s also a bit more regular and basic than the previous track. Track four “Body Dysmorphic Disorder Blues” by “Les Champ Magnétiques” takes on a different path, with depraving power electronics and old school noise esthetics. A hellish ride of deafening, high ranged feedback and fragmenting harsh noise, maybe made by a microphone. “Ultimastanza” and the track “Temptation are next in line. Here, one can hear deep textures of analog synthesizer noises and other swamp like, muddy noise. The overall sound is like a storm, raging over rough and barren land. Visions of post-apocalyptic images and Radiated flesh after a nuclear disaster come to mind. Also a very visual track. The last one is by “Lebensfaden” and is called “Fall Into A Crevice, Nevertheless That Is My Closet”. Lebensfaden brings brooding, dark and slow electronics, warm and cold at the same time. Dreadful, yet with lots of vigor. This is the calmest track on this release but oh so nice..
Ten-Jin is true old school noise and existential bleakness. And it’s definitely worth the search, since it is no longer available on Urashima and Lust Vessel.