Three Radikal Rekerds #30 [ Vymethoxy Redspiders Music Special ]

Vymethoxy Redspiders appeared in my life like a sudden and entirely unexpected eldritch vision. I saw her marvellous profile on Spacehey and despite all the arcane language, unabashed invertebrate affection, gloriously leftfield listed interests and the fact she claims to be "29 moults" old - nothing could have prepared me for the response I received upon her acceptance of my friend request. Something in the vein of a far-flung Welsh autochthonic community lost in the insane warrens of parallel Ghooric space. 

To my eternal shame and embarrassment I think Vymethoxy cottoned-on to the fact that my monkey-meat reptile-brain hadn't fully comprehended her otherwise nice comment. She proceeded, via a torrent of private messages, to reveal a substantial body of weird and wonderful music she has created, or at least a grasping paralytic polyp laid upon, various side-projects and adjacent-outfits, etc. 

I do hope you consider sending a Vymethoxy a friend request :D If you feel your mundane existence is just too banal, and you aren't feeling nearly as baffled and terrified of the prospect that vast cosmorotifer lifeforms may very well be puppeteering your spiritual experiences right now, and prodding incessantly at your incorporeal-nematspace-inhabiting-overbrain, then this lovely lady's correspondence and music might just be the thing to alleviate that! ;3

Here's merely three examples of this immeasurably creative lady's creativity. I'm sure more of her and her allies work will end up on future TRR iterations.    

  

 

Genre: Punk/Experimental

Standout track: Guttersnipe - Return To The Cyanobacterial Slime

Two tracks each from Redspider's Guttersnipe and equally freakish bedfellows Cuntroaches. The latter band seeming to favour a pummelling zonked-out sound with wailing n' warbling surf style guitars and myriad distorted yet familiar mutant tropes. The aforementioned Vymethoxy outfit have an almost ritualistic and ecstatic quality to their sound, reminding this bewildered listener of skronk and math-rock - albeit of equations only elden batrachophrenic insect brains can fathom.     

Genre: Noise/Dark Ambient/Drone

Standout track: Urxthalphr

Hard to pin down this older projects sound to a specific genre, but it's seething with benthic science-horror dread, alongside fleeting moments of paradoxically harrowing bliss, a peace underscored by beastly wails and snarls that are very welcomed by this crusty old UGBM-head. Indeed it reminds me of what a lot of darkly-orientated post-vaporwave projects are doing now. And this was apparently released in 2006! It's nice to stumble upon an unknown (and perhaps unknowingly?) prescient record.  

Genre: Electronic/Experimental

Standout track: The Unanswerable Prayer

Difficult-to-pigeonhole load of sugary gibberish that's as oddly uplifting as it is strange. It's hard to tell how much of it is improvised (in terms of lyrical content, loops/preset samples, etc) or carefully and deliberately composed. It's highly reminiscent of the work of Lucky Dragons, Doon Kanda or Jacob Sachs-Mishalanie, or even Aphex Twin at his most perversely playful. It feels like music you can take deathly seriously or as irreverently as you please. Either way, if it doesn't put a smile on your face, then you my friend are an absolute agelast.