Ambient Babestation Meltdown & JBS - Who Goes There
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Hand-to-hand tape drop off from LDN via Glasgow to Bristol, we got a handful of copies of this absolute gem of a tape from Ambient Babestation Meltdown (best name) alongside JBS, fresh out on Optimo -
This one definitely melts-down just nice. Four original productions made up of wickedly weird, and fully consuming belters and chuggers, plus a killer 45min mix to nice up the deal even more.
Kicking off the EP 'Litany' is a trippy, throbbing, electrified sound tunnel that fully captivates and leads into into wickedly tough hi-nrg new beat / EBM type tekkers on standout cut Dead Or Alive -
From the get-go, just two tracks in, and this one is sounding mighty solid already.
Then, on 'The Other Place', the third track, we enter an acidic bass-dive into the void, a place where twinkly synths collide with warped ambience and dubwise effects.
Lastly, on title track 'Who Goes There' the kick drum acts as a staggered heart-beat type thing, full circle back to the intro cut, in a way, whilst an LFO'd sawtooth style synth amps up the levels of downbeat euphoria -
Sound wise, the tracks all feel coherent, whilst each one adds a subtle change of mood and pace, a real journey and full focus on the weird world conjured up across each of the tracks, which all find glue in hallucinogenic synthesis and a mind-controlling ASMR type voice narration from via the Babestation.
This one gives us good kind of DJ October, Spiritflesh, Chris & Cosey, Annie Anxiety, Anne Clarke type vibes, but in ABM & JBS's own way of course - real great stuff.
To top it off, we have a psychedelic, rhythm-heavy 45 minute DJ mix by Ambient Babestation Meltdown on the flip, peppered with short samples from John Berger's classic 'Ways Of Seeing' book & documentary, highlighting the depths of historical (and of course still very current) mysogyny in art, and image, and therefore also language, and behaviour.
Proper job.
Comes with onbody printing on both sides of the tape in clear cases with printed two-sided j-cards. Designed by Andrew Beltran.
** we'll email you a download link for the digital files, once you purchase the tape **
Litany
Dead Or Alive
The Other Place
Who Goes There
Ambient Babestation Meltdown - 45min mix (clip)