मोक्ष [UIS-07]
This tape is one of a few sent to me by Russian label UIS, and is currently out of print. I originally planned on doing a full label feature for the guy, but realized something quite quickly, and it's all summarized through this one tape, which was my favorite: compilation. Each tape presents a variety of different experimental artists who create tracks around a central idea, and then UIS distributes them in unconventional ways. That part I really like. This one was distributed in Trunyan, a village known for its peculiar burial practice where corpses are merely adorned and left to rot openly in nature, so some copies were left sitting with skulls and the artists seemed to all be from the area. Really quite an ingenious connection of sound to theme. But, here's the thing; since every release is a comp it's going to be hit and miss. In the whole set he sent none were as effective as मोक्ष. The rest, though with moments of greatness, were too scattered to give my full attention. I would hope in the future UIS considers non-comp releases or at least gets a better grasp of theme, because every tape after this sounded far too similar. This one survived because of the Bali theme that differentiated it.
Score: 4.1 / 5