Vitamin Manifest - 300°E, Zhuhai
Released: August 10 With their first release in ostensibly several years, Warsaw-based experimental duo Vitamin Manifest returns with something of a love letter to numbers stations - those strange relics of the Cold War that appeared and disappeared without explanation or continued their nonsensical broadcasts up to the current day. Despite being only two tracks and about 15 minutes in total, the atmosphere maintained throughout is rather intense. Much of this intensity seems to come from the bass frequencies, which are either from an unidentified synth or the use of heavy feedback. They come in extremely heavy and only let up in short bursts of silence, creating this heavy wall that doesn’t quite override everything else in the mix but certainly suppresses it. Aside from the clever sampling, it stands out as one of the defining features of the album. The sampling on the album largely comes from where you would expect; shortwave radio transmissions. Endlessly repeating phrases an...
