RRR - Ed Killer
It isn´t the first time that Ed Kemper have crept into the world of extreme electronics. The first time must have been the classic ´Dead Ed´ with industrial pioneers Throbbing Gristle, to Walking Time Bomb with u.s power-electronics cult act Deathpile. Third time we are in the French-company with Sébastien Bach´s own death/cold-electronics solo-project called RRR. This interesting pro-CD-R was also the very first investment I did over Bandcamp, that was back in 2005 and it was released on Sébastien´s own label called Required Rate of Return records (limited to 30 copies). So yes, we´re talking about a worthy cult item which is very dear to me!
7 tracks, almost 60 minutes of pure atmospheric death-industrial/power-electronics brutal minimalism. Take the brutalism of early Intrinsic Action, morbidness of Atrax Morgue and the atmosphere of Deathpile... get the point?. Eerie and moody distorted sounds, occasional mesmerizing punishing rhythms, screaming and warped high-frequency tones, hypnotic echoed samples (Ed Kemper and a news reporter talking) cold and looped distorted basslines. A very subtle and harsh minimalistic back-to-basics treatment for the trained industrial-ear. From death-industrial to heavy ambiance! Nothing can go wrong!. The last track Ten Minutes Before Death being a fantastic blackened masterpiece, the pure sound, and doom of early industrial... working with that familiar serial-killer theme!
So yes, I recommended it back in 2005 and now I am doing it again! It´s fucking great! It is as simple as that.
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