Cassette Review // bvth "Etymology" (Personal Archives)
This cassette begins with these expanding bass synths which just grow louder and stretch out farther. A computer-like voice is speaking over the sound and these atomic pinball type of electronics can also be heard. It can feel like the entire universe is being born and then shift into a loud sound of scrambled electronic frequencies. As loud as this can get- and it can just full on blast to where it feels like it's filling up an entire room- it can also slow back down and just turn into these minimal strings. There persists this feeling of boiling water type noise.
Those sharp strings really cut through as it feels like the water is boiling over at the same time. Beeping comes in frequencies now as if we're sending a message. Louder air is heard behind all of this, as if we're at an airport and the airplanes are taking off and landing. This brings in angelic vocals which can sound like chanting and it feels like we've gone to a rather spiritual place, though the sharpness of the strings plucking remains. The fluttering around now feels like insects and then it shifts into a sharp drone.
Static begins crackling through now and then it comes in much louder, like a wave washing over everything. There is that spark within it, but it is heavy. This all grows deeper and begins echoing like a horror movie, though these other sounds like train whistles come in that aren't really scary but just hard on the ears. Blasting through and the tones feel hollow like glass as well. We drop off into a very windy and electronic feeling part now, almost like it feels as if we're being electrocuted. It feels very much like we've entered a place for haunted souls now.
On the flip side we begin with what sounds like synths of triumph as they're higher toned bt then we get darker with this static sound like rain. This takes us into a part where it feels like the cassette is being manipulated- just the way it pauses and feels like it's reversing. Little tings of strings come through as well, and what feels like a whispered voice is within all of this as well. If it weren't for those individual notes it would sound like we were listening to a song backwards perhaps. The notes, fragmented, feel as if they are being played and then drop off into nothingness.
As the next song starts there are vocal patterns used to create a sound. It sounds like two different people singing, but they're singing notes not words. This is all paired with the beeping of these laser-like buttons which just makes for such a robotic yet somehow organic symphony. Deeper in the bass, these notes come out as if to say wah-wah and they are joined by higher pitched chaos from perhaps a harmonica. Lighter sounds now, still some beeps, and then a wave of distortion from an electric guitar covers over all of it. Distortion begins skidding now and we're on those screeching tires, spiraling out of control.
Back into that distortion blast with electronics coming through it, as if we're in space and passing through a black hole or something. This is just one of those wild, Pole Position-like rides. The organ tones come through now as well, as if we've reached that final boss in the game. The sound of a broken pinball machine comes through and then we're taken to a darker, quieter place. Guitars cut through and feel like we've gone to a gunslinger type of place now as well. And with a feeling like a storm passing through, this one drifts out to sea.
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