Hive Mind

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Hive Mind is this guy from Detroit who, over the past year or so, has released about a dozen cassettes and CD-Rs documenting his experiments in extreme post-industrial noise and reconstructed electronics. His latest disc, Death Tone, is one 45-minute track of uninterrupted sonic emissions reminiscent of a computer-programmed assembly line: myriad drills and presses, the whir and stutter of a hard drive, muffled fits of hydraulic jackhammering, and the buzzing exactitude of a robotic arm. They are, for sure, sounds implying an aesthetic of cold technology. However, Hive Mind possesses an ability to orchestrate these seemingly inhuman qualities into this warm, almost moist sound-organism that breathes, stutters, and gasps with all the minute rhythmic nuances of Grandma's respirator-aided nod-off. Now call me fucked up, but whether I am listening to a solid hour of Hive Mind or the partially artificial breathing of an elderly relative, both death tones are deeply unsettling yet utterly hypnotic. The head just kind of goes blank.