Kontakt Service - Letters To the Media
When Scandinavian delights meet the finger-licking goodies from the USA, what do you get? If you are lucky, then you´ll probably get something really nice... like a juicy romantic dinner or something. If you are not soo lucky, then you´ll probably end up having to deal with something like Kontakt Service. Two perverts, one from Ideal Father and one who calls himself Mortum ( Stone Wired, Human Vault ). These guys are up to absolutely no good, probably kidnap your pretty daughter and force her to watch European porn flicks from the 70s over a sweet glass of cherry wine. But apart from that, they nonetheless decided to bang their heads together to create a nightmarish death-industrial treat/album. Letters To the Media is their debut, which has been released on Death In Venice as a limited 30 copies cassette. A lovely kind of old-school collage cover design, with a sleazy sort of feel to it. 6 tracks over, 30 minutes plus.
The first track I´ll Bring You Down introduces low-fi recorded samples from some old documentary about prostitution, this gets mixed up in a howling, surreal, and (again) nightmarish sort of Texas Chainsaw Massacre-soundscape. A churning death-industrial bass sound with some cool heavily distorted vocals is present as well. Kind of slow-moving old-school power electronics with death-industrial elements.
The second track One Final Night is more simple and minimal in sound. Not that far away from the sound of Brighter Death Now´s Necrose Evangelium. Sort of an icy and foggy sort of feeling going on in here, the sound from the world which exists between the dead and the living. A cold and icy place where dead souls seek the means to end their eternal suffering. A lovely picturesque track indeed!
I Am What Is Real is the third track on the album, continues that haunting sound which the second track introduced us to. The perfect soundtrack to describe all the murky and foul things that are happening behind closed doors. Lovely nasty sounds mixed all together without any aggression, I love the thing that the listener can easily hear all the sounds going on. Truly horrific death-electronics for the minimalist!
The fourth track Hate Is the Future. A hazy and harsh space-ambient kind of sound fills the room. My first thought was that it sounded a bit like an evil version of Rymdborg. Not the kind of track/sound you would expect from a track called Hate Is The Future, but it does raise the curiosity of the mind and ears. A very glitchy, dense, and raw ambient piece with a lot to lay your ears to. A get a kind of big city noir feeling here as well.
The fifth track Sell Your Bones, has a sample from a drug addict telling a heart-broken tale about selling her son for her to get drugs. Draggin, crawling, screaming, and distorted sounds with some excellent vocal parts here. Again, Kontakt Service nails that horrific feeling once again.
The last track Kill-Rape (love the merry titles right?!). I am 100% sure, but I do think that I am hearing a sample from Jeffrey Dahmer. Explaining how he came from a good family (and all that). Some cool and mind-bending sound-effects thumps on like a classic TG song, I really dig those low-fi distorted sounds here! Another excellent track!.
A bloody masterpiece. The only track that I felt was boring was the first track, but the rest of the album nails it right into the eye. Fans of Brighter Death Now, Atrax Morgue, and Intrinsic Action take notice. A harsh ambient-driven death-industrial treat from the good old days. Do not miss this one, there are still some copies left!
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