Antimatter "Reset"

What is the voltage of static electricity that courses over your skin standing each of five million hairs straight on end? Can the answer be derived quantitatively from the waveforms cascading against malleus, anvil and stapes to trigger follicle surge? Or is math itself lost in the abstraction to qualitative, perceptual, and metaphysical sense? Such shortcuts to madness can’t be taken casually. They’re best explored through complexities of minimal materialism, an exquisite example of which appears now before you: vibrating strings, membranes, simple particles of sound sculpted by Antimatter, the solo project of Xopher Davidson.

Obsolete analogue signal generators and processors (e.g. Comdyna GP-6) were used to form clouds of frequencies well below and above the audible range. Davidson spent ten years to build the test circuit used to make this recording. Welcome to a world of abyssal listening.

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Fat Worm of Error "Ambivalence and the Beaker"

If the toys aren’t broken, you’re not really playing yet. Fat Worm’s ninth release unstitches pop itself and expertly drapes it in drool. From common instruments: guitar, drum, vocal, and bass comes a crowd of unlabored sounds, surging on burnt Bambi legs, a melting forest of crisscross gone limp, crashing over and again into perfect place. It’d be dumb luck, except it never quits.

Singing, which ruins so many a band, is for Fat Worm the insane face atop the hulking freak. It belongs there, blurting in sardonic falsetto that careens high then higher into dentist drill register. Drums get up in the way of ten flailing limbs, guitar buzzsaws timbres stirring up a magnetic dust that seems to steer itself. Grab on! A forty-five minute surge of Fat Worm is about to wash in and drown your eyes dead. CD in gatefold sleeve with lyrics sheet.

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