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This is a split release from the old days. 2004 was a good year for excellent noise releases and this was one of them. It contains three tracks by Andy Ortmann & one by The Cherry Point. For those who don’t know, Andy Ortmann makes experimental music since 1990 & The Cherry Point is the moniker of Phil Blankenship, who is also becoming a pioneer in the scene.The release starts with the tracks from Ortmann. “This Is What I Am” is the first one and consists out of drilling electronics, slowly shifting in sound and mostly unchanging which make it very meditative. The second track, “The Look Of Love”, is the longest of the three and is a collection of musique concrete, field recordings of outside sounds, messed up clutter, weird clock like sounds, dark scapes and industrial hits. A very interesting combination of sounds. The clock like sound is the most persistent here. “We've Only Just Begun” is the third and last one from Ortmann. It starts with the sound of a bird, and ends with a man talking. No further explanation needed here.
“Guts Bloody Guts” on the other side, is the track from The Cherry Point. This one starts with clattering racket noise and rusty electronics. I also seem to hearing a drone on the background that sounds a bit like stretched out sound from an airplane. Occasional blasts of vile noise and moaning feedback comes in, and towards the middle the sound changes it’s course into a more chaotic atmosphere. Busy factories come to mind in this industrial terror from The Cherry Point.
Although these two artists bring out a total different sound, they both fit very well together. This is experimental and harsh entropy on it’s best. And the artwork speaks for itself.
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