Whilst his previous release on Immanence (then called Fleshmadeword) consisted of one long track, the new offering by the Israelian sound sculptor Vadim Gusis contains 10 tracks. The release is a joint venture of Immanence and DTA Records. The album title “Dead Air Broadcasts” already suggests what the most important element on this album is. All source sounds were recorded using a Siemens shortwave radio receiver. The result is rather industrial, the manipulated radio sounds have a quite noisy effect, in combination with deep drones, mechanical sounds and distorted layers. This is quite different from the droney dark ambient I knew from Chaos as Shelter.
‘Dead air’ is an appropriate title, the album sounds quite sinister and otherwordly. A few songs are less aggressive, soundscapes consisting mostly of radio static. Most ‘Broadcasts’ though are rather brutal and uneasy to digest. But every track seems to have a different atmosphere, and most of them have a strange attraction. All in all over an hour of quite interesting sounds, which are skillfully assembled and manipulated.. It makes me want to play with my radio too…
