Christoph de Babalon – Grim Zenith [12"] Industrial / Power Electronics and corrugated processing push on

and corrugated processing push on the grammar of guitar-driven experimentalism

with Julie Tippetts’ coloratura and flute and Akio Suzuki’s analapos and spring gong flying high

I was braver from listening in

with Plagne’s modular approach to songwriting allowing the material here to take unexpected turns while never feeling mismatched or ‘bolted together’

they play together with intelligence and sensitivity

Christoph de Babalon – Grim Zenith [12"] Industrial / Power Electronics and corrugated processing push on"The brooding cycles of Christoph De Babalon's work have never readily leant themselves to the customs of genre and function. And the shadowy mechanics of his breakbeat turbulence altogether contradict the promise that rhythm's accents resolutely sustain. Rather than winding us in along its patterned coil, setting us down in a spiral motion with the bait and switch of a drop, his version of hardcore is pure fight or flight response. Its hardest edge