Interesting, really looking forward to the TVO interpretations.

shadowy producer releasing experimental techno, emphasizing distortion and noise. yeah, we need more of that shit.

sorry, leave this stuff to Vatican shadow...

Well you can say that VS should have left that to Muslimgauze, but then if the music is good who cares who creates it.

No review for the 7'?

7' is great.

the Vatican shadow remix is awesome...but the rest sounds like a poor Vatican shadow imitation. -_-

Agree. Pretty uninspiring stuff. The cheap 'weird' and 'dark' reference to the heaven's gate cult is lame too.

Mira 1 & 2 is so good.

What's the point of reviewing it without the 7' ??
It's like reviewing face A and not B..

Well done RA..

Vatican Shadow was a nice contemporary twist on the whole Muslimgauze thing, for people who don't necessarily want to tackle the latter's massive discography (or Prurient's previous stuff, even). But this? Meh. Score deserved, in my opinion. An artist who likes 'compartmentalizing' stuff is here a bit of a polite euphemism... more like an artist that likes trying his hand at the flavor of the day- the redeeming part of course being that Shifted is a fantastic producer. I'll pass on this one.

Enough with the Vatican / Muslimgauze comparisons! His shit doesnt sound THAT much like Jones'.

The 7" is surprisingly good. I really wanted to like these 2 tracks but I just think there's something a bit off about them. The A side was boring and the Vatican Shadow remix had promise but was tinged with some cheese.

It really depends where you come in on his (pretty sizable and varied) oeuvre. A lot of the 'gauze stuff is quite noisy, harsh and beat driven, with the same obvious lo-fi aesthetic and approach. However, I'm not trying to highlight musical similarities so much as the wider thematic ones. White dude making vaguely politically allusive music using Middle-Eastern samples? We've already got like 30+ albums of that stuff, all more than a decade old.

I own the first two releases. Sure maybe the flavor of the day or whatever people want to call it but there are definitely some tasty tools in there. There is something addicitive about noisy, metallic, non-melodic, stripped out loops. Some of this garbage can banging music is pretty fun to mix so I can't hate at all. However, there is still a craft to presenting 'over the top' music and there is a fine line between shit and stellar. Also enjoying the war on who can go heavier without hitting the cheese line. I enjoyed the first two releases over this one.

Vatican only used middle eastern samples on the record for Modern Love. The triple LP and the rest dont have any. The political themes are dope and we need more of that in music, IMHO. Which Muslimgauze records sound like Vatican? I am seriously asking for a recommendation because I'd love to hear that stuff but every time I buy an album its either late period dubby trip-hoppy stuff or early mellow-ish low fi loops.

the Vatican-Muslimgauze comparison is mostly cultural/metamusical imo- the volume of output, the track-naming, the low fidelity, the 'industrial cassette culture' feel that Fernow cultivates w/ Hospital... So he's imitating Muslimgauze's identity moreso than his music. If it weren't for the hyperpolitical+cryptic middle eastern tracknames, it would be a bit of a stretch, sure. He seems to be trying hard to regain some 'authenticity' after leaving Cold Cave [which is now firmly just a goth band for hardcore kids/30 year olds]. Whatever the reason, it's led to some great remixes & Hospital releases [personally i don't really like Vatican Shadow itself, just everything adjacent to it].