Nicolas Jaar released this album of odds n' sods under a seldom-used moniker, one solely relied upon for the house/disco edits and sample-heavy club bangers collected here for the first time. I don't recognize almost any of the samples, but pop/disco/soul cuts are scrambled into kick-laden techno thumpers - at times the songs seem a little faceless and maybe facile, I don't know Jaar too well but I figure he's more sophisticated than some of these straight-forward club hitz...nevertheless this set bumps and even if it's not a total revelation it's a head-banger and I could see myself coming back to this one when I need banger therapy. Neat.
Nachtmystium/Leviathan - In the Valley of Death, Where Black Metal is King: An Homage to the Roots (Ascension Monuments Media, 2018)
What the fuck is that title. Okay I get the first part is a Judas Iscariot tribute, but did we really need "an homage to the roots" in there? Hey wouldn't it be funny if these were actually covers of the band The Roots? Anyway. This album was supposed to come out 10 years ago, but it was blocked by the bands' respective labels. Now I guess they've figured out a way, or Blake Judd needs money for drugs so he's figured out a way, to put this out. The Bandcamp version has 8 tracks, 5 from Nachtmystium and 3 from Leviathan, but I've seen a 10-track tracklisting elsewhere. On the version I have, we have Nachtmystium covering Judas Iscariot, Ildjarn (twice), Von and Burzum. Leviathan tackles Ildjarn (twice) and Von once. I seem to be missing Leviathan's Judas Iscariot cover ("Where the Winter Beats Incessant") and one of Nachtmystium's Von covers ("Von"). Weird. Wonder if there were some licensing issues or something. All four Ildjar...
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