Morgane Desbeet / Mental D-struction* ‎– Morgane Desbeet / Mental D-struction

A Side is a continious hnw perfomance,not really harsh,maybe because of cassette and digital difference,and not so annoying,but absctractive for sure at same moment,those power electronics elements reminded me of some other artists i've already heard,that metal clash sounds are quite recogniseable,also can hear perfomer breaking instruments,by microphone,which is great actually,main sound ambience + live action in studio,at some point it turned out that feedback noise was a distrorted piano live played,whoa O.o that's massive,very interesting sounds,like live instruments were effected in order to make that noise,i like that ^^
title fits in for sure,at some point my neighbours went bananas,had to switch to headphones after first 12 minutes :D
oh and then noise rock kicked in at 13 min,with smth like beatbox,very cool ^^
good combination of live instruments + digitalised sound ;)
haha even house utensils took it's part :D
at some point record stoped,unexpectively,i even thought it's the end,but....not a chance :P
it fades out slowly and gently,but then raises again randomly at that point,very unpredictable,with random cut-up's of different elements by parts.
It's hnw only at first hearing,at the beginning,now it's more random and unpredictable,sneaked a short volume check by artist himself,maybe in order to stop recording,but nope it went on & on,with adding short vocal sample around 24 mins,those breakbeat elements with dronish sounds,made me wanna move also ^^
unexpectable and at around 26+ mins,like tape was gonna end,but however there are even still few more minutes of silence (around 3 to 5),so not sure why recording stopped at that point :/
i bet because recording equipment had no more room or smth like that :)
my rate for this one 10/10 for sure ^^

On the other hand Side B fits term of "electronic music" more,in it's traditional form,extremal ofc,not hard to guess,but it's structured,not freelanced as Side A,so judging tracks by their structure,not general feeling,tracks B1 has grind vocals + speedy beats,B2 even has smth like sax O.o oh and Bounty Killer like vocal sample haha :D
B3 starts as slow ambiental symphony,then fast beats come as addition to it,totally filling in,with that typical speedcore snare ^^ then grind like vocal also adds,oh and also break is pretty great,mostly speedcore tracks don't have it in it's typical structure,which makes it quite unusual ^^
B4 starts like car motor overdrive then turning to more hardcore like track,slower then rest,with more gabber type kick,but then again speedcore kicks in,and again slower kick,so it's mixed,vocals take place again aswell,as like in all other tracks on this side.
B5 begins mostly as dark ambient thing,but then turning into pitch-hop vocals with junglecore breaks + speeed,pretty cool ^^ oh and even chiptune melody here haha :D this one slightly differs from rest of on this side ;) woman screams inside aswell :P
B6 this one,have an ambiental beginning as most of tracks on this side,then turning into seedy kicks,broken beats are partially heardable,melody evolves during track raise.
B7 is more vocal then previous,and have slower parts as B4,vocals even may be recogniseable this time :P
"God Save America"!
hmm melody is like in previous track or it's one track O.o anyway maybe i've misplaced smth :P
Side have some free sound space left as like A.
my rate for this also 10/10.

So in general 10/10 for each side,but by different categories,they might be even listened not as one and consider as "2 in 1" release,cause of complete difference,which for me wasn't obvious before listen,i didn't epxect it to be so,but it's either a good surprise,since both sides are for different kind of mood to listen to,not a bad idea of puttng those together ;)