Two are documented on these CD-Rs, the first releases on their in-house label.
The physical dimensions of the space & the demands made by neighbouring businesses
regarding volume restrictions tend to squeeze different performances out of those playing at sound&fury.
Castings' 30 minute set is hesitant, sounding out tenuous themes & brittle near-melodies
through Echoplexed guitars. The group push a constant stream of molecular activity from their broken,
dusty equipment, over which delayed vocals form a busy, vibrating force field,incidental noise bobbing in
corkscrew patterns.

The set by ragtag electronics duo Yellow Swans rates among their best.
All three pieces hum with noxious bacterial electronics, but the greatest thrills hit when
Gabriel Mindel's guitar coasts the waves of buzz. At these moments, Yellow Swans come on like
The Dead C's most non-rock recordings like "The New Snow", trying to claw out of a grotto stacked with
automated & unruly Wasp synths. My copy of the Yellow Swans disc came with a photo of a mangled,
burnt-out car wreck, an altogether appropriate image for the evacuated constructions the duo detail.

-Jon Dale, The Wire

Hand-numbered edition of 150 copies documenting a live Yellow Swans action
from 29/10/05 that sees the duo on purely lunar form, with tides of slow electricity
washing black arcs of feedback across a huzz of distant alarm codes while the sound of night traffic
wings it’s way around phantom autobahns & repeat-halos of electric guitar lock
the whole thing into almost Zaimph-like fields of slo-mo beauty.
Another highly atmospheric release from Yellow Swans that should particularly appeal to fans of
the great Drift Yellow Swans LP on Root Strata. Comes in a wax-sealed envelope with
an original colour Kodak snap. Recommended & already sold out at source.

-volcanictongue.com

Between the Yellow Swans & the Skaters, you could fill up a whole shelf at home
with limited cd-r's. If you figured Sunburned Hand Of The Man, Birchville Cat Motel,
Gray Daturas, Hototogisu, Axolotl & all the rest into the equation you
might just need a whole room. So here's one more to try & squeeze in if you can.
Recorded live in 2005 at sound&fury, a record store in Australia & limited to 150 copies
(we got the LAST 24!), we have to say it'll be well worth the trouble to make room for this
in the cd-r wing of your musical collection as it's another kick ass installment
in what is now a MASSIVE, but surprisingly consistent body of work.
This live set is all droney which you know we love (& we know YOU love).
The first near twenty minute track is one long shimmer, a warm low end thrum
supporting a pulsing dog whistle skree & in between all manner of creaking industrialism &
drifting guitar warble, thick whirring vacuum cleaner fuzz & moaning distant feedback.
Track two takes the sounds of track one & roughs them up, adding more volume,
more power & ultimately more noise, a big thick layer of feedback & rumble & rrrooooaaarrr.
The final fifteen minute track continues in a similarly droney direction with
another layered soundscape of ultralowend power & ultrahighend sinewave squeal.
This time the low end is thicker & more distorted, like a guitar pressed up against the speaker,
while the high end is just a distant sheet of white hot shimmer, while in the foreground,
guitars oscillate & pulse, not full on noise, but not melodic necessarily either.
There are most certainly melodies (or fragments of melodies present, but they are suffocated by
the Swans' bulldozing sonic swells. Another winner. Hototogisu heads & fans of
other such sonic mayhem will love it!
Packaged in a simple brown cardstock sleeve with a black 'Y' wax seal.
Hand numbered & limited to 150 copies, includes an actual photo insert. Each one is different.

-aquariusrecords.org