EHI nothing ever was (c60 from FDR recordings)
one of the many tapes from the fdr catalog. opens with 'another surrender,' ten minutes of spacey abrasive noise. loud fierce rumblings punctuated by far-off metallic clanks, giving a very tense feeling. most of it has a lot of echo and a feeling of distance, except for near the end which in contrast seems like its right there chewing on your face. a very nice start. 'in a quiet room' follows, a large collage of various sounds, ranging from water running into a sink to feedback manipulation to classical music excerpts  and one part that sounds like an animal is eating the microphone while the friday the 13th soundtrack plays in the background. shortish bits assembled completely at random it seems, just the thing to make me completely lose track of where I am, trackwise; not a problem when i'm just listening although it does make it harder to write review. near the end a loud voice commands: "listen very closely to what i'm about to say" followed anticlimactically by a bit of jazz. now i am really confused. i think that 'the area in question' is a squishy moogish synthesizer track, which would make 'clockwise from above' the dense, more musical track directly after. kind of reminded me of less fuzzy astroboy [from my limited astroboy experience], droning synthesizer, echoed drum and such. side one closes with 'decay experiment 1,' a short weird loop[?] piece. side two is a bit of a let down after the range displayed on the first side, as most of the tracks are kind of lo-fi harsh stuff. all right pieces but not distinctive enough for me to go into any detail about them, apart from 'submitted minutes,' the extremely odd final track, with lots of crunchy noises, weird loops [including what sounds like someone making pig noises]. followed by quite radio static. nice.