released June 12, 2017
Artwork & Mastered By – Kálmán Pongrácz
Remix By – Noisesculptor, Pol Mod Pol, RHN, Chris Sigdell
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VITAL WEEKLY
Of course Hungary has no king, so the Royal Hungarian Noisemakers is more or less a jokingly foundband name. Maybe also then the ‘noisemakers’ part of their name, I wondered? This duo, consistingof VlaD and Rovar17, has been reviewed before (Vital Weekly 1007) and back then it was 'God savethe Noise! Noise save the God!’, which is still their slogan. These two cassettes is actually my firstproper introduction, as the previous was a collaboration/remix with Noisesculptor. Like with somany other releases that are reviewed in Vital Weekly, here too I’m clueless as to what instrumentsare used, perhaps other than what one could suspect, being electronics. I could easily believe thisto be a combination of laptops and electronics, maybe a bunch of kaos-pads or such like connectedas well, and something that picks up sounds, like a (contact-) microphone or two. The noise aspectof their name is not forgotten and much of what they do is on the edge of true, powerful noise withthe capital ’N’, but not in the Merzbow sense; the Royal Hungarian Noisemakers know how to pullback and let their noise bounce around in a bath of ambient sounds and that is a combination thatworks pretty for me. Their noise can be full on and yet it is not full on always which gives somebreathing space to the listener and that works quite well. On the other cassette they have two originals, ’Don’trump’ and ‘Chillary’ and each of these getsa remix, with the same remixes for both, in the same order; Noisesculptor, Pol Mod Pol, RHN andChris Sigdell are present for these ‘rremixes’, there is no mistake there on my behalf. The twooriginals are ambient industrial and noise based, but let’s assume it has very little to do with thepolitical point of view of the Hungarians; I guess they don’t like both politicians. Which, looking atthe various titles of the remixes, goes for the remixers as well. They rework the original into heavyrhythmic noise (Pol Mod Pol), more ambient excursions (RHN, Sidgell) and Noisesculptor offeringa combination of noise, rhythm and improvisation. Nice enough this one. (FdW)
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