Karl O'Connor & Peter Sutton & Ian J. Richardson - Disintegration

Another great release courtesy of Birmingham's finest producers! It's a great collection of tracks, including the previously released tunes on "A disintegration of our faith" and "A disintegration of your art", with three previously unreleased tuness. You get a fair amount of territory covered in only 40 minutes; the album opens with the classic 4x4 stomper Death Head Said, moving on to Absolute, which isn't as banging, but still keeps it tight with a very rough and unpolished bass line. Baptimsm walks the more linear and claustrophobic path with elements of percussion getting toyed with through the track, along the lines of Portion Reform's "The supreme negative" album released on Downwards, while Death Head Said (Version) tosses us right back into industrial territory with a really harsh rhythm and a cracking drum kick! Next up is Assume Nothing, adorned with a fat bass line, and more of that monotonous dance floor chaos instigating techno madness. The bass dominating drive is immense here, the sound is still very rough but all the more extremely raw and potent. Staff Car 1 and Staff Car 2 bring some of that off beat, awkward techno reminiscent of the British Murder Boys project Surgeon and Regis would form later on in their careers. It implies that both of these tracks have huge devastating effects if properly introduced, rolling at neck snapping paces with very brief outbursts of rackety sounds atop the percussion. Awesome and incredibly powerful stuff. The album reaches its ending with an untitled tune, consisting of some far reaching and stretched out noises and undecipherable voices heard from behind them. It's disturbing enough to make your spinal chrod twitch in agony and beg for mercy! So demented, so tongue in cheek and so resolute in its intent to sound wicked.
So does this whole album. Absolutely essential if you've enjoyed either British Murder Boys, the aforementioned "The supreme negative" album or Regis' debut release.