PUTAS - EXTREMAS (CDr, MEJOR QUE TÚ DISCOS, 2010)
What it looks like:
This release came out on the short-lived (and ALL CAPS) MEJOR QUE TÚ DISCOS, a label that was run out of Colombia in the latter half of 2009 and most of 2010 (and then vanished straight off the earth again). I traded this CDr and a bunch of others in late 2009 and ripped them all to hard disc but sold a lot of stuff at some point so can’t give too many details anymore on the actual physical item other than that it was an Inkjet printed cover in a plastic sleeve with a spray painted disc. I remember the back of the cover just had the label name in huge caps and it contained an extra printed insert with release info. The cover shows an obscured picture of a group of girls behind some plastic wrapping and the artist name in big red caps (old picture from the label above).
What it sounds like:
Two walls of lowly grinding, muddy walls with a lot of activity within them. There’s a lot going on though because of the whole lo-fi mix it all kind of melts together into something not very distinct. There seem to be roars, squeals, squeeks and even screams buried into the mix, like some kind of aggressive harsh noise was originally recorded and then beaten down and degraded into HNW. Interestingly I guess this came from an era when there was a lot of exploration going on and people were trying to see what the ends of HNW were and when also a lot of things that would not anymore be considered HNW were still described as such (like Macronympha, Incapacitants, more like walls of noise yes but not HNW). This is just on the other side of that divide in a grey area where it is certainly wall though, but with some features of harsh noise. The two tracks do not have particularly different characters and seem like a single session cut into two (maybe originally intended for cassette release?).
In conclusion:
A fun little release with some decent walls, nothing groundbreaking but definitely alright. Interesting for those who like the grey area where harsh noise and harsh noise wall meet and who like a little activity in their walls.
3 bricks out of 5