No Contact – KR3 15

‘Power Starved/Human Waste’ is as scary to hear as it is to read the track title. As far as album openers go, it certainly sets the scene vividly. A dark, dystopian, murky futurism where people – or at least their ears – listen from beneath the boot of oppressive forces, inaudible vocals echoing and expanding, reverberating and dissipating into a distance we can never really hear because of how forceful foregrounded sounds are. Industrial, EBM, noise, elektro-punk. There are many ways to describe what’s here but they all point to a 21st Century cloaked in darkness and anxiety. The irony, of course, is that this is a very human expressionism, despite the harsh machines that seem to dominate the soundscapes. The distorted screams and thumping bass drums of ‘Safety Net’ perfectly summarise the point.

Lacquer Cut At – Manmade Mastering
Pressed By – AFG Record Manufacturing
Manufactured By – AFG Media Company
Graphic Design, Layout – Marco Maldarella
Lacquer Cut By – Xavier*
Mastered By – Joshua Eustis
Performer [The Duo Formed By] – Dave Foster, Rich Oddie*
Live Archive 2011-2019
«No Contact» documents the nine years of live actions from O/H – The duo formed by […] with recordings of performances in Japan, Russia, The Netherlands and Canada.

A1 recorded July 22, 2018 in Saint Petersburg (Gamma Festiva])
A2 + B1 recorded May 14, 2015 in Toronto (Double Double Land)
B2 + C1 recorded July 17, 2016 at Yunomaru Kogen (Rural Festival)
C2, D1 and D2 recorded August 2, 2019 in Amsterdam (Katharsis)

Ontario Hospital 43°35’52″N 79°30’57″W

Comes in a gatefold sleeve.

No Contact – KR3 15