'ECReviews' fanzine V/A - Drones Since Before The Dawn Of Time: M.I. Compilation Vol.4 (Musically Incorrect Records) CD-R I'm moving house at the moment and I'm spending all my time sorting through the debris of having lived in the same flat for ten years. Earlier I was boxing up my books and playing, very loudly, was this album. It's big and noisy and droney and I thoroughly enjoyed it. To this point I've not even looked at who's on it and I don't really care because it was perfect for the moment. It's now a month later, the books are unpacked and I've finally got the time to sit and listen to the stack of seedeesthat have gathered over Xmas and the new year. The album opens with noisemongers Grey Park whose 'Hundred Years Old' gets things off to a riotously noisy start before Skullpture enter the fray with three, untitled, tracks of their own particular brand of harsh guitar improv. Flutwacht's 'Course of a River' is 13 minutes of pounding noise whilst Am's two untitled offerings are, at first glance, a more 'traditional' and 'musical' beast, until that is the razor sharp wall of guitar noiseputs the lie to that idea and they follow it up with the superb Throbbing Gristle style second track. Half Mile Down continue the old school industrial feel marrying vague phasing noise with assorted boops and swoops and Crossbred meld their eerie effects with some vaguely middle eastern sounding melodies, think the opening desert sequence of The Exorcist as soundtracked by Coil. A damn fine album that you really ought to hear.