What is
ambient? What is noise? What is dark ambient? Is there such a thing as dark noise? Most of these questions cannot be answered by
me if only because, to paraphrase Roddy Piper, whenever I think I know the
answers they change the questions.
This
tape is moody. This tape is dark. And why not, this tape is ambient. I feel like ambient music creates a mood,
but this doesn’t create a mood so much as it envelopes you in whatever you are
doing.
I can
only think of two ways to explain the sound of this cassette and one involves
Kurt Cobain, so I shall go with the other.
This
tape is a can of gasoline. Not
literally, but that is the sound it makes.
It makes the sound of a can of gasoline with a slow leak. As you play this album, it spills out. All over you.
All over the room. All over anything
that gets in its way.
When
you reach the end and that auto-stop kicks in, that’s the match.
Boom.
Eject. Flip.
Do it all over again. Explode a little bit every night.
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