A strange split between the stalwart Japanese noise artist Hiroshi Hasegawa (of C.C.C.C. and Astro infamy and also half of the Hasegawa-Shizuo duo with a couple of exceptional albums on Utech) and the dreamy ambient composer Sasha Darko. The Hasegawa side is a monster of a piece as oceanic grey chunks of hissing noise with crumbled distortion dramatically build through an intensity of dense layering and compressed noise chomp augmented with pulsar-driven oscillations and industrial ventilator churns. More Prurient than Merzbow, landing on the dynamic, theatrical side of noise construction. Great stuff we should add. The Sasha Darko half is a drifting excerpt of pretty twinkling electronics graced with kosmische overtures. Some of Darko's previous albums retain overt allusions to deep-sea imagery complete with dolphin and whale tones (eek!), and it's seagulls he's going for on this tape of lulling patterns and sea-green serenades. This one clocks in at just 10 minutes, and the artwork from Black Horizons is top-notch, with offset silver printing on black linen paper.