A tumultuously noisy split tape by supERROR (Austria) and Xtematic (Croatia), on which each artist recycles and remixes the other's source material. Cascades of full-bore electronics interact across the entire spectrum to create an amalgam of speaker-shredding glitch and harsh noise.
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"...I started with the cassette by Xtematic and supERROR (as they prefer to spell it). The first is from Croatia (and were reviewed by Jliat before, in Vital Weekly 856) and the latter from Austria. They do a remix of sound material from the other. Bandcamp will give you list of that source material, which in the case of supERROR is all unreleased and Xtematic all sorts of material, which you can no doubt find it look for it. To start with the B-side, Xtematic is clearly the noisier project of the two, but they don't leap that easy into a barrage of noise. Their (?) approach is all about cutting and pasting various bits and bobs together in some sort of crude cut-up process. I was reminded of Merzbow during SCUM, in which he started to cut up various multi-track tapes of his work and stick them together randomly. Something similar is done here and it works just because it is almost thirty minutes long; it is almost a subconscious stream of noise. On the first side, supERROR has also a few noise tricks up their sleeve, but it seems they (?) are a bit more concerned when it comes to composing with the noise at hand. In "Enter The Game', their longest piece, they cleverly build up from almost silence to quite fiery noise, but never HNW. There is a fine variation in approaches here."
- Frans de Waard in Vital Weekly #1256 (
www.vitalweekly.net/1256.html)
released September 11, 2020
Side A:
Mixed in August 2018.
The following Xtematic tracks were used by supERROR as source material for his remixes: Crash Of Unseen (Reworked Session 09.03.2015) & Inner Seek For Other Value (Live At AK Galerija 27.05.2017) [from Not Physiological Sounds, Split with Arseny Litvin, 2019, Paper Moon Republic, Russia], Hyper Drill LSD (Original Mix) [from Psychic Blast, solo release, 2015, Submersive Productions, USA], In all beauty of penetrating thorns [from Lag Metamorphosis, Split with Modo Koagon, 2018, Biodiversita Records, Italy], Reaching Northern Axis [not released yet];
Web:
arbadaharba.blogspot.com
Side B:
„As alone as it gets...bound to all of it„ was manifested (mostly) through the use of (unreleased) material by supERROR as a sound source.
Shape shifting of materials started in 2019 and it was finished on 23.02.2020. Special thanks to supERROR and Dead Hound Records.
Contact:
xtematic@gmail.com
ARTWORK:
Photography by Olivier Boisseau Layout by David Emanuel Pitzmann