Mirror & Gate Vol. I
Prostitutes and Stephen Bishop aka Basic House go two's up on an ace session for the 1st in Opal Tapes and Blowing Up The Workshop's 'Mirror & Gate' series. It's the first we've heard from James Donadio's Prostitutes since last year's outstanding debut LP, 'Psychedelic Black', and we're pleased to report that he's in similarly rugged, but tucked-in form. Over five tracks he drags us face first from deceptively sanguine start thru the steam-powered drive of 'Holy Blessed Sacrement' to the murky, psycho-mechanical churn of 'An Extra Eye' and a pistoning rhythms of his highlight 'You Better Leave Your Mouth At Home' to the Cab's-on-ket style industrial gamelan polyphony of 'Reborn Maggot'. His flipside counterpart, Opal Tapes bossman Stephen Bishop aka Basic House, offers a wilder contrast, wormholing through the scraped industrial noise attrition of 'David's Skull' to granite-cut, Helm-like concrète textures and pealing cacophony on 'The Four Times' to the buckling space station ambience of 'Dull Moon' and the infolding repetitions of 'Amateurism' and 'Etymology Of''s end-of-shift techno toil. Tip!
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Prostitutes and Stephen Bishop aka Basic House go two's up on an ace session for the 1st in Opal Tapes and Blowing Up The Workshop's 'Mirror & Gate' series. It's the first we've heard from James Donadio's Prostitutes since last year's outstanding debut LP, 'Psychedelic Black', and we're pleased to report that he's in similarly rugged, but tucked-in form. Over five tracks he drags us face first from deceptively sanguine start thru the steam-powered drive of 'Holy Blessed Sacrement' to the murky, psycho-mechanical churn of 'An Extra Eye' and a pistoning rhythms of his highlight 'You Better Leave Your Mouth At Home' to the Cab's-on-ket style industrial gamelan polyphony of 'Reborn Maggot'. His flipside counterpart, Opal Tapes bossman Stephen Bishop aka Basic House, offers a wilder contrast, wormholing through the scraped industrial noise attrition of 'David's Skull' to granite-cut, Helm-like concrète textures and pealing cacophony on 'The Four Times' to the buckling space station ambience of 'Dull Moon' and the infolding repetitions of 'Amateurism' and 'Etymology Of''s end-of-shift techno toil. Tip!
Prostitutes and Stephen Bishop aka Basic House go two's up on an ace session for the 1st in Opal Tapes and Blowing Up The Workshop's 'Mirror & Gate' series. It's the first we've heard from James Donadio's Prostitutes since last year's outstanding debut LP, 'Psychedelic Black', and we're pleased to report that he's in similarly rugged, but tucked-in form. Over five tracks he drags us face first from deceptively sanguine start thru the steam-powered drive of 'Holy Blessed Sacrement' to the murky, psycho-mechanical churn of 'An Extra Eye' and a pistoning rhythms of his highlight 'You Better Leave Your Mouth At Home' to the Cab's-on-ket style industrial gamelan polyphony of 'Reborn Maggot'. His flipside counterpart, Opal Tapes bossman Stephen Bishop aka Basic House, offers a wilder contrast, wormholing through the scraped industrial noise attrition of 'David's Skull' to granite-cut, Helm-like concrète textures and pealing cacophony on 'The Four Times' to the buckling space station ambience of 'Dull Moon' and the infolding repetitions of 'Amateurism' and 'Etymology Of''s end-of-shift techno toil. Tip!
Prostitutes and Stephen Bishop aka Basic House go two's up on an ace session for the 1st in Opal Tapes and Blowing Up The Workshop's 'Mirror & Gate' series. It's the first we've heard from James Donadio's Prostitutes since last year's outstanding debut LP, 'Psychedelic Black', and we're pleased to report that he's in similarly rugged, but tucked-in form. Over five tracks he drags us face first from deceptively sanguine start thru the steam-powered drive of 'Holy Blessed Sacrement' to the murky, psycho-mechanical churn of 'An Extra Eye' and a pistoning rhythms of his highlight 'You Better Leave Your Mouth At Home' to the Cab's-on-ket style industrial gamelan polyphony of 'Reborn Maggot'. His flipside counterpart, Opal Tapes bossman Stephen Bishop aka Basic House, offers a wilder contrast, wormholing through the scraped industrial noise attrition of 'David's Skull' to granite-cut, Helm-like concrète textures and pealing cacophony on 'The Four Times' to the buckling space station ambience of 'Dull Moon' and the infolding repetitions of 'Amateurism' and 'Etymology Of''s end-of-shift techno toil. Tip!