Von Einem/Screwtape cassette - Screwtape's
split series continues with Von Einem, Mark Groves new
solo noise project that takes its theme and name from a
series of murders that took place in South Australia.
Screwtape's side is a solid chucnk of distortion and
feedback that nearly completely (but not quite) obscures
the voice-based samples that lay beneath. Limited
edition of 100 copies.
Von Einem "The Von Einem Tapes" 2CD - The full
discography of Mark Groves' Von Einem project, issued
over the past few years on varoius short-run cassettes,
comes together here to represent a truly impressive
minimalistic power electronics collection. The Von Einem
project takes its subject matter from various documented
acts of depravity purportrated around Adelaide and South
Autralia - not just related to the murders that the
project name references, but also numerous documented
instances of murders committed by police officers. The
Von Einem canon is a taut, focussed conceptual work that
alludes to themes of dole-class drug cultures and ennui
as gateways to violence for its own sake. Groves holds
his sonic weapons close to his chest; there are none of
the walls of white noise you've heard a million times
before here. Instead, each blast and clang is laden with
foreboding and dread meaning. Comes in three panel
pro-printed sleeve with booklet - essential.
