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KSV 501 Reconquer Sleep or Disappear

by Tom Smith & Kevin Drumm

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Tom: “Wildly inaccessible... Monumental mindfuck... Incredibly advanced holocaust of sound... Totally crazed... Defiantly uncategorizable... Powerful anti-music... A wind tunnel of 30-weight vitriol... No music, all balls... Seriously corrosive, out-of-phase, out-of-time... Mind-stabbing dissonance... Xenakis 1959 meets Jacques Brel... The grand mal of all epileptic seizures... Boldly challenges the
listener... The end of music... Sheer abrasiveness and sense of catastrophe... More iconic than the Carter Family... Sexy, brutal and muscular... Smears eyeliner on the crushed, no questions asked...
Destroying the boundaries of so-called ‘noise music’... Dense hysterics stomping on the soft head of obviousness... A body of work characterized by fastidious dementia... The very armatures and
moorings of reality altogether jetissoned... Images whizzing by at faster and faster speeds... Like watching footage of waterfalls cut into half-second shots... Reaches the finish line with the entrails of Tom’s favorite artists streaming from his lips like bad lipstick...There can surely be no music that is simultaneously so pummeling to your visceral senses and so utterly exquisite.”

Kevin: “Work that commands intellectual and emotional commitment... Absolutely gnarly... The sound of a couple of 80s SST records being fed simultaneously through some sort of sentient auto-composition framework... Guitar tones reminescent of Spanish black metal... Exacting attention to high frequency detail... Expertly laid static tone clusters that filter in and out of a matrix, slowly revealing themselves... Compelling from beginning to end... Colossal sixty-plus-minute
sine bath... Echoing both an existential terror and a zen calm... Mutations grow so quietly only the body opens to identify this change while the mind closes... You may not find an answer, but you can certainly get lost in the question... Not for the weak-of-constitution... Statis-heavy drone-sound, high dread-quotient with impeccably organized sound-fields... Claustrophobic music with no means of escape... There is a true nothing associated with these sounds... Static
spectral smear and heavily cut-up, explosion-oriented stereo-field mania... Fiercely abstract and organic... Both jarring and completely alien... Glacial drifts hedged with distortion...”

Reconquer Sleep or Disappear:

“Eight-years-in-the-making collaborative electro-acoustic piece, jointly exorcised as an unflinching, 53-minute block of all sound, Thematically, Reconquer is nestled halfway between Tom’s excellent rush of recent cut-up / ‘chopped & screwed’ work and Kevin’s analogue gristle and digital transmogrifications. Awesome stuff, highly recommended!” /

“Внимание! Музыка для храбрых ушей, доброго сердца и крепких нервов!”

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released July 10, 2010

Recorded KD / TS 2003-2008 Chicago / NYC / Helsinki / Moscow / Hannover. Composed and performed by TS / KD. Original mastering by Weasel Walter; 2020 remaster by Linda, Viola & Uwe at the Slab in Cluj.
Photography and design by Karl Schmidt, with thanks to Tobias Prinz. Edited, mixed and produced by Tom Smith.

c+p 2003-2010 KD & TS / KSV

Originally issued in July 2003 by Savage Land Records.

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Karl Schmidt Verlag is a label and publishing organ founded in October 2008 by Tom Smith (To Live and Shave in L.A., OHNE, NH Meth, Pussy Galore, et al.) in Hannover, Germany. Physical albums are issued as micro-releases.Genre is obsolete! ... more

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