Liposucción - Tácticas De Combate Entomológicas
Another interesting CD-R release from Greek E.C.T Recordings. Liposucción hails (all the way) from Armenia Colombia and this album is the second from this act. Limited and numbered 50 copies edition, Tácticas De Combate Entomológicas comes in that iconic E.C.T-CD-R-design look. A folded (and informative) CD cover with a printed CD-R housed in transparent rice paper. All of this is housed inside a nifty plastic bag. And what about the artwork on the cover? I didn´t understand the album title, but a closer look at the photo revealed some kind of winged insect of some sort. Some strange and kind of high-tech-looking graphics are sort of mixed into the photo as well. A note to mention, Filipo Laresca is the guy behind this project. The founder of Haunted Exp Laps Records, and responsible for tons of cool releases on his Bandcamp, I suggest u go check out (link below)
Anyways!...Hightech insects?... Maybe. The album title is translated as Entomological Combat Tactics, which basically means... how to use science to battle the insects by certain combat tactics. The album is based on an article called El Uso De Insectos Para Crear Plasgas, which means (roughly translated) Using Insects To Crete Pests. Interesting, I might wanna read that article. Who the hell wants to use insects in that matter? To drive people out from some area, or to use insects in the matter of warfare? If it was me, locusts might be a good idea. I wonder, is it a locust on the album cover? The locust thing is a classic thing of biblical proportions. Anyways, we´re dealing with a 12-track album, about 47 minutes in total.
The first track is simply called Entomologia, and begins the album with a kind of low-tech (and analog) psychedelic glitch sound. Someone (obviously) is pushing the very limit of what sort of electronic sounds old-school analog equipment can produce. I mean I love it. The sounds are sharp and to the point, the sound quality is absolutely exquisite. Kind of a fusion between high-tech and low-tech here. The insectoid sound feeling is quite evident so far.
The second track Cantos de Guerra de los Insectos (Insect War Songs) continues with a highly atmospheric and buzzing sound, with noisy elements and mercury-like electronics. The sound of insects... planning and scheming for world domination. It´s all pretty spacy and weird, but it makes absolutely sense when u get into the concept of the album!
The third track Insesticidio moves further into the area of harsh noise and gets me back to that Japanese album with Third Organ I reviewed. Lots of panic and chaos-driven moments here, I guess that is what you´ll expect (as a bug) when humans use insecticide on your entire world!
The fourth track Tácticas de Combate Entomológicas gets right back to that eerie low-tech old-school industrial atmosphere, very similar to early Maurizio Bianchi and Zona Industriale! Metallic psychedelics with lots of otherworldly reverb effects, incredible beautiful primal industrial stuff here!
The fifth track Artrópodos Infectados (Infected Arthropods) is a totally hypnotizing sound piece. A really ear-candy sort of a track, with lots of stuff moving left and right through your speakers. Clicking sounds there hissing sounds there. I also saw (in the informative booklet) that field recordings of bugs have been used!
The eight-track ÁCaros Fitófagos (Phytophagous Mites) sort of... gets close to me. I have hens in my garden, and just recently we´ve had a case of bloody blood mites in there. Every time I went into their little house to fetch eggs, I came with that creepy crawling feeling of mites all over. And yes, this track is a quite convincing creepy-crawling track. Doom-laden industrial electronics with some menacing mechanic bubbling effects. Believe me or not, we had to use some other super-mites to exterminate the blood mites.
The rest of the album is a bloody blast. Analog-industrial atmosphere exploring the world of insects... through science. I could imagine that if H.P. Lovecraft had an idea about how the insectoid (and crap-like) Migo communicated, then it could sound like this. Pretty otherworldly and has a pretty microscopic mood throughout the entire album, with lots of conceptual focus on this album. I suggest that u go and get it before the bugs do!
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