Alan's Free [Prog.] Electronic Blog

This entry is going to be a little bit different than my previous entries. I've been going hard on the ambient glitch sound lately, so I need to feature something different. 

So, here we have Flutwacht's Fields of Emptiness, which is industrial harsh noise. Flutwacht is a German group who have been consistently releasing albums for some time, and this particular album was recorded live in two different sets. Like Lustmord's live album Rising, Flutwacht's live album doesn't feature the audience yelling and moshing (or whatever crowds do at noise concerts) but is instead recorded directly from their musical devices. The sound on this album is not like the dark ambience of Lustmord however, but is much more in the vein of the infamous Merzbow with more emphasis on the lower register rumblings and gurgles than unsettling high-pitched drones. I'd even go as far as to call this Merzbow-lite, sounding more like something from his Frog+ or Marmo albums rather than Venereology or Pulse Demon. Also, in addition to being noisy, the sounds of the well-establish German industrial sound is ever present on this album, sometimes almost sounding like hellish interludes from a KMFDM album, minus the terrible music.