Following last year’s “the Inner Room” Freddy Ruppert continues to explore false cinematic world building within these five tracks that are exclusive to this split cassette. Focusing on heavily manipulated samples, this time he brings textures to the forefront, in a blend of creeping ambient noir, synthetic realms, and hazy atmosphere. Although very often simply filled with the most basic vocabulary of the harsh noise canon, the releases - sometimes criminally obscure and limited - of Josh Stewart aka Ex-Jesus are always something that sounds in a damn unique way (and those who have listened to them know well what I mean).

Slashes and razors here encounter something significantly new: melodic glimmers, digital shatters, gurgles of actionism from a messed up futuristic bedroom. Freddy and Josh have been making music together since they were teenagers. This tape recrosses, after a few decades, their long paths, which from their native California led them far away in the world.