“Somewhere in Tokyo, in a laboratory underground. Two men struggle with huge cables and machines, shaking the air in a room stained with mould and the slightest whiff of cigarettes. On a floor littered with organs that are neither organic nor inorganic, they continue working silently on the machines in front of them. Unaware of what kind of monsters will be born.”

ORGANS is the seventh release on the Nocturnal Technology label, a Cronenberg-inspired album of body horror fetishism produced by label boss Mars89 and Albino Sound.

Assembling a laboratory of hardware and an arsenal of samples from VHS blockbuster horror films including Hellraiser and Leviathan, the pair concoct a story of peak-time nightmares, moving through phases of EBM, techno and dub.

ORGANS stems from a single studio session that saw the two hunched over machines like Elektron’s Analog Rhythm, Soma Laboratory’s Pulsar 23 and Korg’s Volca Bass, padded out with other hardware like Moog’s Mother32 and a range of modular synths. The number of tracks grew across a number of subsequent back-and-forths, as they “cultivated” new songs to form a fitting album plot.

The buzz of experimentation starts on the opener “Ultimately Brain,” an EBM thrasher that sets the scene for the rest of the album, conjuring up images of dark nights and undercurrents of rushing energy. “Psychiatric Deviance” is a gloopy dub lab with test tubes and trickling, unfinished scientific processes.

With the all-important NS3 Dub Siren whirling throughout, “Somebody” is the song to whip listeners into a trance, while “Three Drills” is the most driving of the album, fitting right on an early-morning dance floor in Berlin. Glittering hi-hats and percussion are the running theme through “Deception,” snapping back and forth above its Moog synthline with didgeridoo-esque sound effects to close: the ending of ORGANS is a cliffhanger.

ORGANS will be released on digital and cassette, the latter made from recycled plastic: a sustainable way of possessing a physical copy of the music without excessive harm to the environment.


Comments
Albino Sound
“The cells we cultivated at our underground session evolved through a number of edits, concocting a whole new variety of living creatures. I refer to this process as “alchemy,” and have previously attempted it alone countless times, yet in conjunction with fellow scientist, Mar89, we successfully accelerated the process with significantly better results. I wish for listeners to listen carefully, noting the idiosyncrasies in the voice of each chimera that we’ve created.”

Mars89
“Across a warped timeline, we chopped, distorted, laid out the exponentially proliferating material that was propagated from an experiment conducted in the underground room. The monsters/chimera — or even cyborgs — that emerged after the process are now sealed into magnetic tape, awaiting their chance to break free.”