released May 29, 2018
Artwork – Kálmán Pongrácz, László Kiss, Syporca Whandal
Effects – Rovar17
Electronics – Imre Tar, László Kiss
Instruments – Syporca Whandal
Loops – Rovar17
Mastered By – Kálmán Pongrácz
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IDWAL FISHER:
Download codes for cassettes are a bit of a bonus, especially when you have a cassette of uneven running time or the tape itself is one of those ultra thin C120 Boots jobs that you used to get. Those little bits of paper that label bosses cut off of printed sheets of A4 and stuff in to their etched smoked cassette shells. I call it musical confetti.
Hungarian label Unsigned did me a favour by including a download code of a release different to the cassette they’d sent me. So instead of downloading Stigmatic Destruction Meets L*mbik [or L*mbik Meets Stigmatic Destruction depending on which bit of the sleeve you read] I was met with Messed up Loves by Rovar17. Which I should have guessed because thats what it said on the bit of paper.
Messed up Loves by Rovar17 is an hours worth of processed samples, heavy on the Japanese porn [I think] all wrapped up in a gale on a steamship. Tasty but not as more-ish as a Fruit Pastille. Stigmatic Destruction Meets L*mbik [or L*mbik Meets Stigmatic Destruction depending on which bit of the sleeve you read] is a mass of lo-fi beats, noise and general destruction. Maybe the lo-fi bit is the tape’s fault. I have no way of knowing. Lets pretend it is lo-fi because I like the way this works as lo-fi with its mass of samples leading to a post apocalyptic landscape type feel of desolation and broken machinery. First track side two is Pacemaker Firmware and a nod towards Chris Carter’s thumping TG beats with vocal samples as taken from Hollywood films or some such. The rest isn’t too shabby either if its Industrial Murk you’re after.
A crying shame that so few copies exist.
idwalfisher.blogspot.com/2018/08/magyar-meets-suomi.html
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VITAL WEEKLY:
A somewhat curiously titled 'band'/'project', which I think includes members as Syporca Whandal (instruments), Rovar17 (effects, loops), Imre Tar (electronics) and Laszlo Kiss (instruments). There are seven songs on this tape and like with the various releases that I heard by this label and/or involving Rovar17, this is another curious blend of improvised electro-acoustic music touched by a bunch of noise, in which we should understand that the noise is at times mean and loud, but it is not their intention to put on all the noise fireworks. Chaos is something that they like very much it seems and while the presence of seven titles on the cover may indicate they are different pieces, it
could very well be that this is just two long pieces with some occasional bits of silence dispersed throughout. Sometimes the interaction was indeed quite captivating as good improvisation should be, a dialogue between sounds if you will, but sometimes the scratch and hit policy, laced with a bit of feedback, is uninformed and going nowhere and perhaps that also comes with the territory of improvised music. Maybe the intention was that all should be documented, in which case I
haven't said a word. But if not then I would recommend an even stronger weeding of the bad bits.
The overall impression, however, is not bad at all. (FdW)
www.vitalweekly.net/1142.html
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BAD ALCHEMY
Post aus Budapest, ganz was Neues. Absender ist Kálmán Pongrácz, seit gut 15 Jahren nachtaktiv als Rovar17, mit den Royal Hungarian Noisemakers, ParaNoiZ und zusammen mit Syporca Whandal als Stigmatic Destruction, die sich manifestieren mit der Ansage: We are the gods of the lambs! The seeds of Lucifer's doubt sink into the euphoria of the mud by us. Kálmán ist wohl auch die treibende Kraft bei Unsigned, dem Forum für seine dunklen Machenschaften und für Gesinnungsgenossen wie United Gods, Th Anatol (Gergely Toth), dem schon bei Attenuation Circuit zu findenden Noisesculptor (Róbert Sipos) und Kollaborateure wie Imre Tar & László Kiss alias L*mbik. Auch Kálmán selbst hat im März 2018 schon in Augsburg mit Sascha Stadlmeier Klangfäden gesponnen ('Spinned Out the Thread' auf "Csonkolt Tündér"). Gods, Ghosts und Fear sind die Meme, um die Stigmatic Destruction kreist und dunkle Narrative webt, Unsigned selbst lässt sich von Theda Bara bis auf die Knochen abnagen. Gerahmt von 'Negative Lobotomy (Satanic Ambient Remix)' und 'Földcsuszamlásszerű Paradigmaváltás (dadacore remix)', lassen einen die Ungarn trefflich darüber spekulierten, welcher Erdrutsch-Paradigmenwechsel ihnen vorschwebt. Wobei 'Neverhood' vermuten lässt, dass sie sich an die gegenwärtige Nachbarschaft nie gewöhnen können. Als Absetzbewegung erklingen: Hinkender Beat, englische Stimmen, harsches Zerschroten, knarrende und berstend verzerrte Loops, Kaskaden in dumpfer Low-Fi, ein Chor und Blasmusik, aber kaum zu erkennen. Dazu rhythmische Verwerfungen, eisern und wieder dumpf umbrodelt, ungarische Stimmen, doppelt unverständlich. Wellen- und Teilchenbeschuss geht, kreisend, über in verrauschtes Pulsieren, in Noisemulm, ominöses Pianissimo, verhallende Stimmfetzen. Mbirazupfer durchsetzen weitere Kaskaden, auch tropfendes Pingen, reißende und jaulende Impulse, sägende Laute und ein monotones Dong Dong Dong, das zerstäubt und verweht und zuletzt crescendierend überdröhnt wird. [BA 99 rbd]
