Roaring new one-sided single by this prolific Norwegian experimentalist. The one track is fairly extreme, scraped metal power electronics, created with ripe-to-bursting 'event rate'. Hard to tell what the source material is, but it's a very powerful piece - extremely aggressive, but also very varied in texture and level of sonic overload. Goes by fast, but that's probably all for the best. I've said it before and I'll say it again - 7" format for this sort of thing rules.

The tiny Ketchup Cavern imprint has got this newish series of one-sided 7" going that has already dropped two installments of primo scrape on us. They started out with that bulldozing crunchfest from Seagull, and continue with a new dose from Jazkamer member and noise shaman Lasse Marhaug. Like I mentioned somewhere in my assessment of that Jazkamer album that came out on Purplesoil last year, I really never have a clue as to what I expect to hear from Mr. Marhaug. The guy has demonstrated a continued propensity for subverting the harsh noise idiom and just over the past two years, we've heard him jut his black tendrils into everything from extreme death metal trance to gossamer ambience and haunting field recordings.

On If The Revolution Could Start Right Now however, Marhaug reverts to a his old school bash n' kill mode with a six-minute or so blast of hardcore industrial skree. Violent stuff, a clustering of mangled feedback, distorted semi-doomchords, piles of junk metal thundering down a mountainside in a deafening roar of metallic abrasion. I cranked this one up really loud and it felt like hearing some gore-caked maniac shrieking over a thirty-second audio loop of a twenty-car highway pileup being played back over and over at brain destroying volume. Harsh, savage, and psychedelic (if yer nervous system is wired for this kind of auditory violence). Sits nicely next to the harshest Jazzkammer stuff, but it's especially reminiscent of Marhaug's harsh noise duo Testicle Hazard, and fans of the hardest Japanese improv-noise extremism (a la Incapacitants and Pain Jerk) should dig mightily as well.

Like the Seagull 7", this comes in a white sleeve printed with high contrast black artwork and text - quite simple, but it looks pretty great. Each one of these is handnumbered out of 248 copies.

a limited/one-sided blast-up from lasse marhaug, his terror-magnets on full-stroke, braining all onlookers ...