BUG / GOD SENT US – split
(10”, Interstellar / Hirntrust Grind Media)
One
new song by favorite Austrian noise rockers Bug and one new song by Austrian hardcore
monsters God Sent Us, adorned by two mixes of God Sent Us songs by Adam
Strang and NSA respectively – you see, sometimes it doesn’t take all
that much to make people happy. The Austrian underground is still alive, it
seems, despite of myspace and music downloading, despite drum and bass hype
and goa raves all around, despite mass events like 3-day festivals and the
mega success of the Austrian Popstars-ripoff. No, there are some people
interested in real noise, be it from the side of bands getting on a stage
and blasting away or from the side of electronic sound manipulators getting
behind their machines and blasting away. Hm, I think, instead of perusing
the old and downtrodden opposition of analogue and digital, which has
completely lost its sense in the last years, I’ll introduce the band /
project – opposition for use. And I am happy to announce that this one
sided ten inch record is the first step to overcome this new paradigma by
setting up two bands and two noise projects on the same side of a record. In
the words of Nelson Munz: “Ha Ha”. Oh well, whatever.
I
cannot get enough of Bug. Their song “Jesus Jackson” (I have no clue if
it has to do with either the musician of the same name or it is a commentary
on the status of Michael Jackson in our medialized world or if it is
something else completely) is a crunchy, dense rocker with a groovy
noiserock basis and rusty, edgy vocals – compare Tex Perkins if you will
for evil fucker attitude. This song says: don’t even think of trying to
fuck with me, because you’ll be stone cold dead a second after. I want to
hear more of them.
“Spätlese”
by God Sent Us has the same “no fuck with me”-attitude. That used to be
called a “take no prisoners”-attitude ten years ago, but this is the
Asian century so we probably should go with their clumsy syntax, at least
what I learned of their syntax from hc/punk-record lyric sheets. Anyway, the
song has the same crunchy, heavy push all through the mosh parts and the
riffage part. Super cool and pounding like a steel drill. Just like before,
the fun is over too soon.
The
same is true for the two remixes, one of them, “Cuntsentus” by Adam
Strang, being a feedbacked noise orgy like early Masonna, the other by NSA
(I can’t remember what the N stands for, but the SA is Squid Autopsy…
sorry, my memory, I am an old man and I am gonna die exhausted.) is just as
fucked up but introduces an (equally fucked up) beat to the mix. Enjoy.
What
else is to say, except that you should already have taken out a subscription
to the heavy shit on Hirntrust Grind Media. The 10” by Rank Sinatra
was great and 1bomb<1target,
the hausundhof-project of the label is as far out as is possible in the
ranks of mean noise. And everybody knows that I love whatever Interstellar
is doing. So, noiserock and noise and two great local labels – does
anybody really expect any kind of objectivity from me?
