SISTERS – Christy Canyon EP (2014)

Diabetic Koala

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• Avant-garde 
• Lo-fi 
• Post-industrial 
• Goth-trap 
• DIY 
• Witch house 
• Drag house 
• Experimental music 
• Leftfield

Comment: SISTERS is a project from Ocean Springs, Mississippi, USA whose 4-track issue is dedicated to Christy Canyon, a retired famous porn actress who had been involved in more than 100 adult motion pictures. I like the phrase "Heaven is Christy Canyon falling in love with me" from the song Heaven Is by English synth pop/art pop/post-punk collective Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. I hoped maybe the outing does have a thematic sequel but there is no issues dedicated to Monica Roccaforte, Simona Valli, Erika Bella, for instance. Love seems to be dead in classical sense and all is virtually stimulated and filled in with simulacra. And it is propagated by the mainstream TV. Musically it is a thick, and lo-fi experiment full of stomping witch house and mutant hip-hop and ominous trap rhythms. I will give it the positive valuation especially in those tracks wrapped up in lethargic, vaporous noises as if coming out from different media and thereof providing a shamanic effect on a listener. In truth, this issue strengthens the tradition of industrial music with regard to such famous cases as Cosey Fanny Tutti as being a porn actress and porn as a part of her performance art, Genesis P-Orridge (another member from Throbbing Gristle) as a transgender human being and artist, and Jhonn Balance, and Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson (the core members of Coil) propagating a voluptuous (gay) sex through their music. The issue is a bit in the discography of Diabetic Koala.

Ghost Arcade – 1997 EP (2013)

Diabetic Koala

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• Post-witch house 
• Leftfield 
• Experimental electronica 
• Avant-garde
• Avant-garde
• Post-drag house 
• Electronic music 
• Alternative 
• Post-psychedelic electronica 
• Avant-rock 
• Post-industrial

Comment: this is my first entry into the discography of an immensely prolific US-based imprint,  Diabetic Koala and after listening to this 6-track 1997 [EP] by Ghost Arcade it could be said it was a fair success to deal with it. In front of your face and legs a wondrous sonic world is laid out. By the way, it might seem a little bit haphazard and chaotic stylistically, for instance, it embarks on with static noises and improvised guitar chords and later more overwhelming noise panning at Wake Up In The Dreams Of Another Dream. It is a quite outstanding issue with regard to the exploitation of the guitar rather than electronics being prevalent in the following pieces. It does have very much in common with the aesthetic of Glenn Branca. It is followed up by Unemployed Dub, which could be denoted as dub music though being saturated with ill-omened synthesized flickers and reverberant drum stomping. The next tracks will continue in a similar vein where the sound is amplified through heavy use of echoes, and stereophonic effects. At time it might seem quite cynical and sniggering due to drawing on austere yet shrill electronic jitters, for instance at Wht`s Tht Smll?. I would call it post-witch house/drag house music. It is a weird yet mind-blowing shit. The issue was followed by another EP called After Burner on the same record label.