Shex v Ommm split

Label : Adaadat
Catalogue number : ADT0003/7"/SP

Release date : 2004

 

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7" Vinyl


NEW NEW release from them Adaadat people, and its the latest split release. This time we have Shex and ommmm showing us how it is done.

Shex kicks it off with "rocknroll". A manic call rings out from the start, and distorted insanity whistles float alongside like a cloud full of ghosts performing an air raid on a blacked out city, but this is only a diversion until the repeating guitar rift smashes through the wall and smiles. Layers and layers of heavy chiming ricochets are mixed in with hissing cymbal strikes which cause this track one to rumble and roll through anything in its path like a crazed monster kicking its way through Tokyo on a hellbent rampage. Manic blast tunes. "Timpo" which rounds off shex's side on the plst, uses more hacked voice samples and taps the captured soundbite with glassy fingers until the hectic bass smashing madness takes over, like a window straight into hell. If you can imagine the insides of a shredding machine which has wheels, and is heading for the stairs like a runaway train. This is that. Crazyloons.

Its time for ommm. "Ufo's building pyramids" welcomes you to the altered playground state that ommm resides in. Bubbly particle melodies bounce side to side as coins and jigsaw pieces drop out of their open mouths, like you have just hit jackpot.
Go and join in with the slow paced beat party, as all drinks are free. Get on down and talk to the acetate cat in the corner of the room, he has lots of secrets in his glass head. "Plasmawatchpen" is the second and last track from ommm, and its a slightly spooky affair. Watch your back as round shiny shaped spectres, skim around in the dusty air, giving off echoing scariness, which takes to the airwaves in capsule shaped sound explosions. At last your tiny metallic army has arrived, to kick some evil ass, and they file into formation, rattling their tiny glowing plastic feet on the floor creating a cascading drumbeat, that has tiny stutter panics along the way. Goodness incarnate.


Im always pleased to get hold of a new Adaadat release, as they ooze anticipation and originality from every tiny blood cell in their body. This latest split release echoes the excellence that has gone before, and really shows what Adaadat are all about. If you have yet to check any Adaddat out, you are missing out.

Quality


Sam

 


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