DE FABRIEK-TEMPEST, LP, 1994, NETHERLANDS

Unlike Labish Intermediaries, the very ambient-oriented previous De Fabriek album that I posted, the work on this LP is somewhat more representative of the odd tensions that are typically at play in the work of this long-standing institution of Dutch outsider sonic art. Tempest goes from leaving the listener ensnared in viscous tangles of distorted electronic beats and queasily distended synthetic morphing that sound like hairballs clogging the gears of the world's largest pinball machine to taffy stretched vistas of miasmic, glazed and psychedelically dilating atmospherics cross-cut by samples, anomalously sprightly sequencer themes and escalating tides of encroaching noise that comprise the epic "Stormy Weather" in a way more suggestive of the acidic maneuverings of their psychedelic alter-ego Narwal.

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