HAMILTON SCALPEL - "2: Airfoil" LPHamilton Scalpel Hamilton Scalpel 2: Airfoil 12" EP (Concrete Cabin, 2020) Goddamn. Mind bending hardwired HEAT from Glasgow's mysterious experimental electronic jungle magician(s) Hamilton Scalpel (possibly though not confirmed to be affiliated with the 'Clouds' duo of Liam Robertson & Calum Macleod). Limited 12" of evil d'n'b, grimy hardcore techno sweats and cybernetic surge on (Mother Mark & DJ Crud's) Concrete Cabin label. "Four tracks of Max

when the South was still finding its flow

but almost every song on the album talks about death or dying

My interest in the mystery of Mr

and literature

and LYDIA LUNCH (with whom Cipolla recently released the "Family In Mourning" LP) at various times throughout 2017

and a synthesizer that at sounds like it’s been called back into service from a previous life as a apartment buzzer or maybe a Morse code transmitter

landing the overall outing a little closer to the greenhouse than the Funhouse lawn

Cover Image : Richard Wetzel

while muted swells of keyboard add to the otherworldly fever dream vibe of “Jersey Swap” and “Lightly

we have experienced the truth through a sort of obliteration: that there is ultimately no such thing as slowness or scarcity of change

industrial and whatever else they throw in the mix

This call to action is repurposed throughout the album’s first half in several related yet distinct styles along the continuum of Black music