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Edge-to-edge, this duo inhabit a cold realm where every endpoint is compromised and circuit board is fried. Their notorious and blistering live show immortalised in the thousand yard stare of its survivors - innocent bystanders who often struggle to erase the experience from their now, corrupted memory dumps.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLP opener ‘Heart’ promptly sets the tone - greeting us with an auditory blue screen of death, jittering and shuddering forwards with no known resolution…. But it’s not long before blasts of harsh rhythmic noise erupt from static, dissociated fog. By ‘Black Rew’, proceedings reach full velocity before crashing abruptly to a halt. 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Instead, a synthesized panorama of cementum rubble and odontoblast-carpeted ruins is projected behind the eyes as the listener is now held in a state of still conscious cryonic suspension, aware of their fragile physical form now being held surrounded by the dissonant whining of invisible machines inserting tendrils between the intervertebral foramen. As the user progresses through the second file in the program, they are given a false sense of escape as the vision gives way to a sonic projection of a warehouse rave. However, this is short-lived as a feeling of nausea washes over them, and they realize that beyond the brittle drum machine battery coming from the front of the space, all they can hear is the howling judgment of the AI-generated wraiths surrounding them who keep them on a tight leash as they attempt to traverse the dance-floor. Interrogational transmissions then begin to bombard the user, reaching unseen and newly implanted biomechanical receivers, convincing them that they are in fact, internal thoughts, resulting in the complete destruction of the mentalself in time for the Ritual of Purification held within file four. Here the user is physically changed beyond all recognition. Sheets of metallic, harsh noise rend flesh from bone. At the same time, simulated drums set a funeral tempo for machines working with the deliberate motions of a demonic invocation as they rebuild a superior metallic exoskeleton around the participant within the FLESH program. As file five runs its course, the user begins to hear their heart beating again within their new post-human form. 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Here they have assembled variously, one spacious black metal intro (with original screams), an industrial-pop earworm not unlike Depeche Mode imploding in a feedback tunnel, two itch-tek dancefloor riddims namecheking local venue bans and I just don’t know what to call ‘Wellspring’ really, the end of days? Well you had it coming anyway…..Known in town for upsetting local MPs and lisencees with their live performances as ‘naked technology sex slaves’ [think cassette-induced self harm, total nudity, blood from ears], Bad Tracking are the most visceral thing we’ve seen in this new wave of Avon experimental - a breath of life into the longstanding tradition of industrial performance art (and an antidote to idle BR club culture). Lyrically touching on censorship and tech \/\/ sonically they use feedback as a punishing instrument of anguish and expression. 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