As always, Contagious Orgasm proves vital and restless—an enduring force in experimental audio since the late ’80s, still conjuring chaos and cohesion from the unruly tide of avant-garde electronics.
Industrial remnants mingle with cinematic fragments
A torrent of obscure nocturnal murmurings, abrasive digital dissonance, and simmering sonic drifts surges through Behind Closed Doors, a seven-piece collection from Hiroshi Hashimoto—Nagoya’s enigmatic sound artisan. Within this dense sonic realm, industrial remnants mingle with cinematic fragments, conjuring darkened spaces that seem to pulse with a sentient presence.
Opening cut “Mood” stirs to life with decaying reverberations and the guttural exhalations of unseen entities, while “Thirsty?” sways in hushed corridors, haunted by gusts that whisper just beyond perception. On “Soft Sensitivity,” incidental recordings, fractured blips, and abstract domestic sounds emerge like fragments from forgotten dialogues or half-remembered dreams. Later, “The Return” crackles with a hypnotic pulse, channeling harsher elements through a snarled circuitry of distortion and tone.
As always, Contagious Orgasm proves vital and restless—an enduring force in experimental audio since the late ’80s, still conjuring chaos and cohesion from the unruly tide of avant-garde electronics.
Behind Closed Doors is available on Ant-Zen. [Bandcamp]
