Planktan Sanquin: “Jane DeLooping”
When we’re feeling lost and lawless in the early sunrise hours (or the minutes before the second cup of coffee kicks in at least) there are few alternatives to the utter frustration brought to us by morning computer time. One of the most fruitful and, therefore weirdest, choices is to hunker down and enter the wilderness of Bandcamp. It’s the Old West of the New Age. In the past, a trail was sniffed out and all one could do was follow with an explorer’s heart. Today trails are not on terra firma, but in clicks. Click. Click. We’re off into the unknown shambling from link to link – a sort of Tarzan jumping routine – email to email we discover off gnashing sounds from Australia. The ears perk up. What the hell? A few scans later and the word is out… remixing Merzbow? Who would dare? Who would want to? The original is titled “Looping Jane” from 2002′s Amlux. Our ears hear the same mood hiss groove over and over, inducing hypnosis until ominous clouds gather. The groove is never pushed fully out of the picture, but different bells and whistles challenge the beat’s dominance. Clashing screeches and bubbling distortions build towards the end, reaching not so much a climax as an apocalypse. All we can say is, “What evil lurks in the waters of the Pacific?”
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Written by Jeff Daily
