Harm Stryker/To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie split 7"

Rating: 8/10, Source: Aversionline/Fall of Because
Harm Stryker's "Shutter" takes up side A: Droning, repetitive pulses of low-end creating a heartbeat-esque rhythm backed by some swirling ambient undercurrents. The track remains almost entirely consistent for its duration, aside from a slight shift in the fading swell of ambience, and the rhythm slowly dissipating as things draw to a close. Similarly, To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie's "And Their Eyes Were Like Flashing Screens" is a repetitive track that has a hypnotic quality, though it's got a musical bent to it with some persisting melodies and careful layering of background textures. Both pieces are recorded well and utilize a lot of beautiful low-end, with the musical nature of To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie's side brightening things up a bit as opposed to the somewhat bleak simplicity of Harm Stryker's exploration. The 7" comes on black vinyl in a nice sleeve that has been screenprinted in metallic silver ink on matte black paper. The artwork is abstract and in my opinion matches the atmosphere of the music nicely. This is an excellent release that includes some of my favorite recorded material to date from each project. In my opinion it seems that this release marks a more focused approach for both of the artists involved, and certainly leaves me looking forward to their future work.

Source: FakeZine
The second edition of the 804noise label of the 804noise richmond collective presents a 7” split single between harm stryker and to kill a petty bourgeoisie, bends from this collective that were on the first 804noise compilation. harm stryker, one of the most active politically and socially motivated projects in this collctive, on one side of this nicely designed 7” put a quiet, unnoticable, soft, transperent track named shutter, that throughout its repetitive existence has a tendency to fade out. an amorphous hit like a beat creating part of the founding construction. somewhere at the end of its repetitiveness there is a subtle noise in micro variation where it quietly ends as it started with a shutter. jehna wilhelm and mark mcgee or ‘to kill a petty bourgeoisie’ are on the other side of the split with ‘and their eyes were like flashing screens’. as with the richmond bend, they treat an experimental sound by combining electronics and acoustics. they achieve this also in “and their eyes were like flashing screens”, a track with calm deep ambient background above which there is the repetitive melody. in all this minimalism there are some distant sounds. calm, melodic, pleasant. seen as a whole in all its beauty and freshness of the sound, the inventiveness in the approach and contemporariness, this split shows another inventive side of the experimental and noise scene in general and specifically on the scene concentrated around the richmond collective. if they continue with such approach towards the experimenting and treatment of the sound i am looking forward to their following issues.

Source: Left Off The Dial
Minimal. Everything about this release is a study in minimalism, from the wonderful silk-screened sleeve art to the monolithic sounds on the plate. The two contributing groups take the barest of sonic elements and working them into electronic ambient landscapes that are both spare and uncompromising. The Harm Stryker track is the more conceptual of the two, being little more than a slow digital pulse in the manner of a heartbeat, laid over furtive background tones and left alone until late in the piece. There is more to the To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie track, but just barely. A surprisingly delicate track of shifting tones and environmental sounds, the songs tempo and thematic movement are both incredibly deliberate, and its most rewarding aspects are found in its complex and beautiful textures. You probably want this record. - Justin Rude

Source: StillBorn-Webzine (author: C.D.M.)
Second production for the new label 804noise, been born like collective experimental/noise of area 804 of the Virginia, that is Richmond. After the interesting compilation that it brought to light some of the more important truth than Richmond, here hour to arrive this split 7"between the founders of 804noise the Harm Stryker and the To Kill to Petty Bourgeoise.

The side To is up to the Harm Stryker with "Shutter". The Harm Stryker is Kelly Nourse and Kenneth Yates, and 2 boys are not alone who amuse themselves to experiment with the sounds. Harm Stryker is an active plan politicamente, pacifist, not-violent, strongly motivates to giving a hand to you in order to change the humanity, therefore as music changes, evolve and interesting and innovative shapes of communication are found, also the man can change this road, apparently without escape, that he has feed. Obviously this is one my synthetic interpretation of their thought, thought that you can read on their situated one www.harmstryker.org where you will find exposed also to their ideas and their programs. The discografia of the pair of Richmond is still much short one, the first job is the omonimo that laughed them to the slid year, followed from 3"" Nightmare"per the Pac Records, and then 2 brani created in this 2004," Red Sun ", listened to in compilation of the label and the this "Shutter" for the split with the TKAPB. "Shutter" is ambient dark and minibadly, flavored from drone ghost and beat that they seem you strike yourself of the heart. Pleasant in its repetitive being and minimally disturbing to the just point.

In the B side we find an other pair of Richmond, the To Kill to Petty Bougeoise, that is Jehna Wilhelm and Mark McGee, of they I know very little, but also they as the HS have a still short discografia, but have 2 cd very autoprodotti, "To Companion for Afternoon Walks" of 2002 and "Demonstration" of 2003, then appears this year in the compilation of the 804noise and shares this split with the HS. Their "And Their Eyes Were Like Flashing Screens" is a less dark brano and more delicate, a sound expanded and without time contraddistinto from one minibadly and dreaming melodia that it wraps the listener totally and transports it in a sure and magical place.

Effectively a song to head is a lot little and the beauty of these two works leaves all opened mouth, and the feeling that is had after I listen is that one of wanting of still and still more. the only consolation that we can have is that sure soon other jobs rilasceranno and our musical appetite will be able to find comfort in their works that, to see from the sun 2 songs listened to here and on the compilation, seem always and only to improve themselves. I only hope but to more find again them with a album or something than one single song. attention! this gioiellino is limited to sun 500 copies!