Mauthausen
Orchestra - Under Control (RE-ISSUE CD)
(Placenta
Recordings #200 - 2012/2013)
1. Under
Control (UNCUT) (7:37)
2. Edge Of
No Control (UNCUT) (7:03)
Composed/Performed
by Pierpaolo Zoppo/Mauthausen Orchestra in Torino, Italy, 2012.
Art/Release
by Jay Watson/Placenta Recordings in Traverse City, MI U.S., 2012 - 2013
Fully
authorized by Pierpaolo Zoppo.
Sealed CD
inside jewel case w/ art:
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Traverse
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49685
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MAUTHAUSEN
ORCHESTRA:
"One
of the early Italian power-electronics projects, Mauthausen Orchestra, in the
person of Pierpaolo Zoppo, started in 1982, releasing tapes on his own label
Aquilifer Sodality. His work explored morbid subjects, usually extreme sex,
perversion, tortures and disease, and the sound was a
brutal collage of noise, electronics distortions and inhuman vocals. Mauthausen
Orchestra stopped in 1986, some recordings from 1988 were published ten years
later by Xn Recordings. In 1997 Zoppo
resurrected the project and released some new material, while a series of reissues
of the early cassettes was published by Slaughter Productions. " -
Statement found on Wikipedia
CRUCIAL
BLAST RECORDS REVIEW: MAUTHAUSEN ORCHESTRA Under Control 7" VINYL
(Placenta Recordings):
"One
of the key figures of the Italian post-industrial scene, Pierpaolo Zoppo (aka
Mauthausen Orchestra) died suddenly in early 2012, leaving behind a body of
work that includes some of the most diseased and evil-sounding electronic music
ever. While his more recent recordings tended to
be a bit hit and miss in terms of , I've still followed his work over the years
and was bummed to hear that he had died this past spring. Apparently the last
thing that Zoppo had been working on releasing prior to his death was this
7" for Placenta, the two-song Under Control 7",
and it’s one of the better of his later recordings. Housed in a white jacket
with the sort of morbid, cadaverous imagery that adorned his classic
Necrofellatio and Murderfuck cassettes, Under Control features two tracks of
writhing industrial creep. The a-side bursts like a blister as "Under
Control" pours forth in an oozing mess of flanged distortion and thumping
low-end noise, the extreme low frequencies creating a strange fluttering effect
as the speakers reverberate with the whump of Zoppo's synth. Like a lot of his
later material, this is more of an abstract noisescape
than the rotting, evil death industrial primitivism of his iconic 80's output,
but it's still plenty bleak, a macro-view of collapsing machinery and diseased
circuit-boards, revealing the vaguest hints of musicality in the strange
descending note patterns that emerge in the final throes of the track.
"Edge Of No Control" slowly drifts in on a wave of warped, atonal
synth notes and buzzing distortion, this amorphous mass sounding like some
ectoplasmic residue from a carnival freaktent, as Zoppo slowly introduces additional layers of warbling
synth notes, clusters of
misshapen melody that later drop in and out as the track evolves into an
expanse of rumbling noise and creepy minor key melodies take shape, eventually
turning into an alien sort of church music. Limited to two hundred fifty
copies."
-Crucial
Blast Records
"I am a huge
fan and supporter of Mauthausen Orchestra and we were working together very
well. He even got his request of transparent blue vinyl. Shame on everyone who
doubted us. We released the FINAL recordings of Mauthausen Orchestra, and we
are proud to have worked with such a legend. R.I.P. Pierpaolo Zoppo, my friend
and a huge inspiration to many. Now you can hear the full uncut versions of his
material for the "Under Control" 7" record, which were
originally
shortened for time on the vinyl. Enjoy!
- Jay
Watson, Placenta Recordings
Mauthausen
Orchestra:
Placenta
Recordings:
Placenta
Recordings
c/o Jay
Watson
P.O. Box
1642
Traverse
City, MI
49685 -
U.S.A.
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