Reviews

This is perfect. That said I suppose more should be said - but it need not. Why I continue is not for self gratification but as an act of providing public information- much as I would tell you if your house was on fire. If you already accept TTN is perfect - or know that your house IS on fire - read no further- phone for help? Of the 4 tracks 3 are of splits and cutups- sections placed across the stereo field - of manipulated / mutilated harsh noise - feedback, distortion, some voice- punctuated and staccatoded magnificence. Track three stands out in being mono? Of a more limited dynamic range, still noise and its sources as before but not as cutup. The applause at the end of this track makes the summation that this is a live recording obvious, whereas the others which seem to be more edited or de-edited I suppose are studio work. No matter the live track documents though grainy an excellent noise performance, the others are simply splendid.
It's not often I hear what I consider a definitive work, which this is, so why only limited to 100? Ok if you've read so far and are the least bit into noise - buy this. Can I now do the so called "pseudo-intellectual bit"?- (climbs on high horse) Noise (this kind of noise) either marks the completion of western music's teleology - evolution, dialectic - "whatever" - or directly opposes the idea of any structural grand narrative, it can simultaneously occupy both positions - it can be art and not art 'at the same time' (therefore resisting closure in a transcendental signified - its immanent becoming..) though not purring quite like Schrödinger's cat, and though *only* occupying the *most* significant position in light of its anti dialectic contra-eschatological ontology its summits can be descended from as well as climbed up. (spot the cute mountain metaphor - K2 get it?) Still the view from the top is splendid, and the going down both Nietzschean and with the faint glow of Moses on his decent.
Taken from Vital Weekly