Less Physical Vortex

"Seij minus aÇ", an experimental musician from Tokyo, Japan, has created some of the most extreme electronic music I have heard to date with Less Physical Vortex. Sounds on this release reflect the title and bear witness to an exhaustive blend of chaotic beats, melodic mayhem and post-industrial noise. The entire release is as intense and unforgiving as are the lyrics, vocals, and his website:"...thin, cold, vague, no more tolerlance, nothing is hated, high, dry, laid instinct floats, nothing is hated" -- Coldly Recognized Aestetics: "undermining integrity w/no tenderness, bitter flow of the universe, killing time because it was lucified, distorted, sharpened by the virginal sense..." Vanish. [Take caution when visiting hAj's website. You need java script and CSS to view it properly, more genuis work.] In addition to the intensity of his aural and visual art, hAj's vocals are quite reminescent of the dark, evil, raspy vocals of Ogre in Skinny Puppy.

The music on this release is very complex with a convoluted quality of frequent changes, noisy installations and various intermittent short waves and bursts of power percussion and beats. This is not easy music to follow (which in my opinion is a good thing), however a few tracks do have some dramatic melody and reliable rhythms, but nonetheless they are still very intense and extremely volatile experimentia. Less Physical Vortex is indeed one of the best power noise industrial releases I have heard. Obviously, if you enjoy Skinny Puppy [hAj makes Puppy sound like child's play], you'll crave more of the work from Seij minus aÇ in the future. If you are a musician or a fan of this type of music, I suggest that you email hAj and ask him for a copy of this release. He obviously knows what he is doing, and does it with unwavering professionalism, knowledge of the machines he uses and direct intent on creating some very twisted sound. Less Physical Vortex is an excellent release. All serious power noise industrial fans should not miss this dramatic piece of work.