Viviankrist
Cross Modulation
Japanese grindcore icon Viviankrist keeps the curveballs coming with her mastication of charred noise and rhythmic electronics, following up the label's acclaimed recent sides by Sote and Not Waving/Jim O'Rourke. It's an intense howl of a record that comes highly recommended for anyone into anything from Alberich/Prurient to Aphex Twin's 'Ventolin', Pan Sonic to Kali Malone. 'Cross Modulation' is a brutal testament to the acridly personalised sound that Viviankrist has explored solo since 1995 in Tokyo, when she performed vocals, saxophone and sampler in her first industrial/noise unit. Twenty-three years later her music is still sorely raw, yet riddled with a new found poignance and atmospheric unease that places her music sometimes as close to Kali Malone's see-sawing dissonance as the power electronics of Pan Sonic or the possessed pulses of Conrad Schnitzler and Merzbow.