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infidel?/castro! bioentropic damage fractal

INFIDEL?/CASTRO! Bioentropic Damage Fractal 2xCD
CBR41
$11.98
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track listing
CANCER (disc 1)
1.The Onset Of Life (1:40)
2.The New Delrium (1:04) ::MP3 sample::
DAMAGE FRACTAL SERIES I (12:19)
3. Dismantle
4. Intrusive Imagination
5. Incorrect Reassembly
6. Bedridden
7.(In)voluntary Emotional Response (9:29)::MP3 sample::


CANCER:DECAY (disc 2)
1. Bedsores (for G.W.B.) (1:43)
2. Involuntary Physical Response (12:38)
DAMAGE FRACTAL SERIES II (9:52)
3.Smear Contradicting Elimination::MP3 sample::
4. Insalubrity Serves Me
5. The Extraction Of Delicate Tissue (1:32)
DAMAGE FRACTAL SERIES III (7:29)
6. Cylindrical Bereavement Summarizing Its Orientations
7.Temporarily Dissolving Into Plasma During A Moment To One's Self (20:50)::MP3 sample::

Undefineable, uncatagorizeable, INFIDEL? / CASTRO! return with Bioentropic Damage Fractal,a 14-part, 2-disc epic of electro-acoustic ambient metal destruction that travels the extremes of density and sparsity, speed and sluggishness, length and brevity, beauty and ugliness. Hyper-complex and hyper-epic, the band weaves an engrossing tapestry of spastic electronic carnage, sweeping melodic bliss, futuristic heaviness, and swirling, hypnotic walls of sound. Concepts of degradation and the inherent instability of the organic are thoroughly explored in this cohesive and focused double CD.

Infidel?/Castro! began with the core duo of Colin Marston (DYSRHYTHMIA, BEHOLD...THE ARCTOPUS) and George Korein experimenting and improvising with home recording techniques, electro-acoustic sounds, and looped rhythms, cultivating atmospheric, exploratory soundscapes. Their unique musical vision would take an unforeseen, violent direction with their first full length CD, the self-released Case Studies In Bioentropy, a harrowing concept album that San Francisco's Aquarius Records called "an Operation Mindcrime for the experimental set!". The release of Case Studies garnered the duo a cult following amongst the indie-experimental underground, resulting in multiple short tours along the East Coast,for which they carefully coordinated a completely continuous set involving much instrument-switching, button-pushing, drumbashing, knob-tweaking, string-breaking and chest-scrawling, playing both DIY basement shows and full-blown venues like the Knitting Factory (NYC) and the Trocadero (Philadelphia),and performing alongside veteran avant-rock heroes Cheer Accident, Load Records noisenik darlings Nautical Almanac, and Relapse/Willowtip metal visionaries Rune. Infidel?/Castro! also made appearances on the Contre Tous compilation on Dutch label Dead Mind Records, a split 12" with Friendly Bears (ex- Candiria), and a live performance on the esteemed NY/NJ radio station WFMU. Their philosophical examination of Bioentropy via ambient metal destruction continues with their third full length (and first for Crucial Blast), Bioentropic Damage Fractal. An epic odyssey across rich sonic landscapes, Bioentropic blurs and mutates the lines between scorching avant-metal, beautiful post-rock melodies, and jarring experimental sound construction.

Review from Dead Angel:
New vistas in sonic terrorism from a band that would be equally at home on Load Records. How excessive is this gruesome exercise in chopped-up tooth gnashing? So excessive that they had to spread the sonic bud butter over not one, but two cds. The "band" is built around the core of Colin Marston (formerly of Dysthymia and Behold... the Arctopus) and pal George Korein getting their freak on with loops, devolved rhythms, and a fondness for arctic drone. On the first disc (CANCER) they open with two spazzed-out bursts of crazed sonic violence, piling sound on top of sound at hyperspeed and sawing through the works with a buzzsaw set on stun... then they segue into "Damage Fractal Series I," a twelve-plus minute dark-ambient soundscape in three movements that seethes with malevolent intent before resolving into a pounding swirl of tortured rhythms, screeching, and diseased sonic ugliness. The sound of "bedridden" is somewhere between that of a trance ritual built from looped jazz chords and faraway drones and the ominous, forbidding crawl of the last Corrupted record. The trancelike rhythms and background drones continue in "involuntary emotional response," with a gradually mutating bell-like guitar sound that would make Troum proud -- a sound that grows teeth (and volume) as the piece progresses. The second disc (CANCER; DECAY) begins with the short and heartwarming damage report "Bedsores (for G.W.B.)" -- short, crashing bursts of broken sound that are eventually swallowed in loops of noise and glitch electronica -- before settling into the lengthy "Involuntary Physical Response," itself a series of devolved loops, noise tones, and other effluvia that mutates over time into a crashing swamp of agitated percussion, tape-mulched noises, and other grim sonic junk and droning noise. "Damage Fractal Series II" combines black metal noise and glitch fury over wild sheets of amplifier noise and hum, then moves into eerie ambient soundscapes built from processed voices and keyboard drama laced with percussion flourishes. Another burst of harsh noise and glitch madness ("The Extraction of Delicate Tissue") is followed by "Damage Fractal Series III," a disorienting collage of wildly disparate noises, sounds, and tones hurled into the void with a considerably wide dynamic range. The final track, "Temporarily Dissolving Into Plasma During a Moment to One's Self," builds over twenty-plus minutes from fluctuating amp hum to delicate piano and drone, addling layers of noise and electronica along the way, growing in both density and volume as the cyclotron warms up, until by the end everything begins to dissolve into an excoriating acid bath of blind white noise and the sound of jet airplanes dropping Kenmore dryers down the side of Mount Everest. Bold and highly ambitious stuff, to be sure.

Review from Alt.Culture.Guide:
I don't know if anyone knows what neurons actually see or hear as they either tear us up or wrench through our mind. Are they forcing our psychological factor to create a reimbursement of fear that makes us crawl into our hidden shell as our fears and flashbacks of embarrassment and despair expose upon our psychological state? Are they creating our hermitized, attention deficit, self-destructive lapse into a more masturbatory state of critical insanity that eats away at our ability to function within our own realm of consciousness. No matter, Infidel?/Castro! has created the soundtrack for our eventual nervous breakdown and the thought cancer that plagues us unto our certain mental demise.
Filled with two CDs of John Cage meets "extreme noise terror," Infidel?/Castro! shows no boundaries when it comes to creating such avant-garde, noise-laden pieces of auditory art. Beginning with "The Onset Of Life," the production and panning techniques themselves sound like a nervous breakdown, with noises and effects used as if the channel was being completely changed in someone's head during an epileptic brainstorm. Continuing along with "Incorrect Reassembly," which starts out as a soundscape of noises that lead up to an eventual orgasm of a violent contortion, which is sort of the vibe created within many of the pieces here. Some might even experience some real mental chaos with the perplexity of noises used in "Involuntary Physical Response," the title itself being prophetic of the noises used that could actually make someone dizzy.
The music, or should I say sounds, do have form, making Bioentropic Damage Fractal an extremely strange piece of art that brings this duo into the new generation of electronic music makers. Pure genius, but yet it's more for an atmosphere and the influence that this CD could have, mainly in the audio factor, considering all the recording techniques that were used. So for those who want to delve into the sounds of the new noise experimentation movement, here is a release for you.

write-up from jackalblaster webzine:
A wonderfully loaded, two-disc set from this NYC/Philly duo of Colin Marston and George Korein, Infidel?/Castro! run the gauntlet of epic experimental extreme music to its philosophical wits end. A concept album and case study of the philosophical examination of bioentropy through ambient metal deconstruction, the two discs here are set up similiar in structure. The tracks range from long sorjourns of sound and oceanic ambient transmissions, to spastic one-minute outbursts of drum banging, grindcore noise. Featuring electronic tape manipulation, pulsating beats, noise bursts, musique concrete, rapid technoid firing, gabber electronics, stretched sounds, and a sense of The Ruins/Mr Bungle psychosis, the album does begin to settle down into spacy ambience, pulsating, looping brain atmospherics, and long drone. There are periods of avant-garde experimental scraping, noise washes, and an uncomfortable sense of quieting acoustics and a deep ambience. Overall, Bioentropic Damage Fractal is a rewarding experience of massive sounds and a unique experimental vision on this two-disc set and is sure to please fans of experimental noise and ambient music. An excellent release.