Long nasty drones is what we get here – one each from Osaka’s Daruin (Kazuya Ishigami) and Grkzgl, on Ishigami’s own Neus-318 label. Both seem to take the title as a starting point and attempt to replicate, with artistic license, the sound of things going down the ‘Drain’. Sharp high-pitched sine-swipes dance like fireflies over a muffled air-conditioning hum in Daruin’s ‘Senno Sareta No Ka?’. This is all rather pleasant until the heavy machinery is switched on, a blunt two-stroke chopping the sine tones to shreds before winding down to a restrained purr. Grkzgl’s ‘Hatsugensho’ is a ceaseless modulated bass buzz, fluttering like a digital didgeridoo, with moments of flying saucer tones poured in. Otherwise, there’s little development, or indeed little that is ear-catching.
Joshua Meggitt
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