Genre: Electronic / Noise / Experimental

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Although it's noise, don't expect massive sound walls, distorted voices and mad samples, loud sudden white noises or loud metallic high-pitched gratings: it's not about a contest of destruction of the remaining listeners' hearing faculties. Here everything is really experimental and Harm Stryker work seems to demonstrate how to deal with and use silence. Maybe it could be called "ambient noise"…

Speaking about low sounds, we can find smooth and low oscillating humming patterns (02, 06), few rumblings (01), broken up sounds (10), and stronger distorted discharges (01, 02, 06), discrete low sound (03) or low vibration (01, 04, 06, 08) and in the closing track accompanied with stronger distorted droning sounds (12) A vibration that remains a machine even appears on the fourth track till a distorted chaotic rupture...

But, the core of Harm Stryker isn't in low sounds, but in high-pitched ones. High-pitched glitches (08) sometimes turns as annoying as some insect flying near your ear (06). Really high pitched sounds (03, 05, 07, 08, 09) are a constant. They often are oscillating and suddenly broken up (f.i. 01) by distorted discharges, rarely they get almost unbearable (06, 08)… Small white noise discharges (01, 07) also are featured, but let's not forget the white noise longer parts that sometimes replace the high-pitched hissings and sound really much more original usually (07, 08).

There are some peculiarities such as a clumsy noise remaining some brass instrument (05), radio noises (02, 08) electric noises (02, 05), metallic noises (01, 02), changing Glitches (f.i. 02), distorted parasites (07, 08), lower ones (11) and some others building accelerating patterns (05, 08). Well, let's say many noises are just indescribable (f.i. 02)… And, by the way, shrewd readers would have noticed the second track is a summary of this release diversity. Apart from that, the listener can notice some short melodic irruptions (09), sometimes as loud as brief (07), as well as the noteworthy proto-rhythmic forays made from pattern iteration on the fourth track.

Globally, the music often deals with long high-pitched noises parts interrupted by short distorted breaks: they punctuate the music, more or less steadily (f.i. 03) and indicate structural changes. The focus is also put on the slow evolution be it in tone or in oscillation of main sounds (often the high-pitched ones).

Really original noise project: although high-pitched hissings are predominant, there can be found many different sounds and sound manipulations. The point is not in superimposing many sound layers, but rather on cultivating originality of sounds and of their combination, poured in an ascetic fashion. Therefore, "Class Consciousness" truly deserves the qualifier "experimental" and maybe "ambient", because of its non invasive using of sound space and exploiting of silence. The whole is mostly low and calm. There usually aren't big and sudden changes in the sound's loudness, it remains mostly calm, 'ambient': not busy trying to make the most ear-blasting music. Some exceptions, maybe: the first track and the sixth. Certainly not easy to get into, yet clearly original. Suitable for amateurs of "calm" experimental noise.