Swimming Behavior Of The Human Infant – ½ (Cassette, C20, Ache)

S.B.O.T.H.I. is the alter ego of multi-media artist Achim Wollscheid, a monument in making experimental music for more than 20 years now. The most known project of him is S.B.O.T.H.I  (in which he seems to be no longer active) but he also has other projects going on. The release date of the Ep “½“, that I will be reviewing today, seems to be unknown.

½  exists out of multiple parts, which could serve as separate tracks. These segments range from harsh, industrial noise, to bleak sounding ambient and machine noises. Like the other works of S.B.O.T.H.I. the sound is very sharp and angled (almost glitch-like). Sometimes it also got a spacious feel to it. Like some of the parts are recorded in a big factory. The two sides seem to be sharing the same noises and sounds/parts, sounding almost, if not identical.

The works of S.B.O.T.H.I. are very uncomfortable and unsettling in sound, and this one is not different from the others. This is noise and ambient in its most purest and basic form. Ugly, bleak, indifferent and uncompromising.

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