EP 1 vinyl

V I S is a new label from Hamburg, with Pudel resident Nina and Tobias Dufner at the controls; this debut release sees them highlight some local talent in the shape of SPR, whose recent 12" for JSME is also worth investigating. A dense feeling of claustrophobia is evident throughout these four tracks, with SPR commencing in rather creeping fashion on the 9 minute "Mass" which sees squalid white noise stream outwards over distant foreboding drones. "Concubine" offers a different mood, slowly breaking out into spacious drums over a dank bassline which brings to mind Tryptych-era Demdike Stare. Both "Minerva" and "Quadrant" feature prominent usage of field recordings, with the former track in a constant state of swelling motion and the latter akin to a lonesome walk in the dark of night accompanied by the unnerving sound of a rattling can nearby.