{"id":5365,"date":"2012-06-29T20:52:33","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T00:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/?p=5365"},"modified":"2012-06-29T20:52:33","modified_gmt":"2012-06-30T00:52:33","slug":"divine-shellbuildings-mountains-of-mine-own-brood-c30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/?p=5365","title":{"rendered":"Divine Shell\/Buildings & Mountains – Of Mine Own Brood C30"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Divine Shell<\/a>\/Buildings & Mountains<\/a> – Of Mine Own Brood C30<\/p>\n

Blood Dirt Cassettes<\/a><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a split cassette between two newer artists. Divine Shell creates loud and aggressive harsh noise and power electronics while Buildings & Mountains is a more eclectic project spanning the genres of noise, experimental, and electronica. I enjoy each of the projects on their own, but I have to admit I went into this one with an eyebrow raised on how they would mesh together on a split.<\/p>\n

Divine Shell presents a mix of tracks with the first a scathing attack of power electronics. The second is a longer flowing track kicking off with harsh death industrial much reminding me of Atrax Morgue. It\u2019s not long before we are floating through passages of ambience with warm subtle overdriven washes of noise, sub-bass thuds, and echoing bells. A great mix of styles and a cohesive track that shows evolution and an ear for editing in one fell swoop.<\/p>\n

Buildings & Mountains delivers something quite different than what I\u2019ve heard from him in the past. This time it\u2019s more of a distorted synthesizer outing, raw and lo-fi. It seems to mainly be only one layer throughout, slowly alternating pitches and harmonies, almost like a drone track that is just thrown through distortion. It doesn\u2019t quite grab my interest, and certainly nowhere near the caliber of his work in the past.<\/p>\n

So it is that this split offers two sides to the story. Divine Shell does what he does best and expands on it a bit with some great evolution in the project. As for Building & Mountains it seems like he may have stepped out of his comfort zone and tried something different which didn\u2019t quite work out too well. Worth mentioning is the extremely crude packaging for the release which is just a fold of cardboard around the tape. Very odd, but following the strange packaging efforts of the previous Blood Dirt Cassettes releases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Composition:<\/td>\n\"★\"\"★\"\"★\"\"☆\"\"☆\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sounds:<\/td>\n\"★\"\"★\"\"★\"\"☆\"\"☆\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Production Quality:<\/td>\n\"★\"\"★\"\"☆\"\"☆\"\"☆\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Concept:<\/td>\n\"★\"\"★\"\"★\"\"☆\"\"☆\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Packaging:<\/td>\n\"★\"\"☆\"\"☆\"\"☆\"\"☆\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Overall Rating:<\/td>\n\"★\"\"★\"\"½\"\"☆\"\"☆\" <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Divine Shell\/Buildings & Mountains – Of Mine Own Brood C30
\nBlood Dirt Cassettes
\nHere\u2019s a split cassette between two newer artists. Divine Shell creates loud and aggressive harsh noise and power electronics while Buildings & Mountains is a more eclectic project spanning the genres of noise, experimental, and electronica. I enjoy each of the projects on their own, but I have to admit I went into this one with an eyebrow raised on how they would mesh together on a split.
\nDivine Shell presents a mix of tracks with the first a scathing …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-webzine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5367,"href":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5365\/revisions\/5367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}