HELLVETE & PHANTOM HORSE - SPLIT TWELVE INCH - PY 125

HELLVETE:
Voor Harmonium I

PHANTOM HORSE:
Vaporsnake
Was drauf

Mastering by Jürgen de Blonde
Artwork by Niklas Dommasck
PY 125 / 33 RPM / Pressing of 300 / www.polytechnicyouth.com

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HELLVETE / PHANTOM HORSE – Split twelve inch - PY 125

Hellvete’s “Voor Harmonium I” is the urversion of parts “III” and “IV” which were released early 2021 on the “Voor Harmonium” LP on Aguirre Records. The piece was first presented to the public in February 2016 in a dark and smoke filled warehouse in Ghent to celebrate a friend’s ageing. The stage only lit by a coupe of candles and an epilepsy inducing strobelight, the music breathing the atmosphere of being locked up at an old-school bunker rave whilst Charlemagne Palestine strumming the piano. This record is the music as it was presented that night. Cranked up, entranced and delusional. 

The songs by Phantom Horse on this split LP are companion-tracks to the Hamburg/Nijmegen duo’s “Mehr Null”-album which came out in late 2020. While that album showed a darker, more nightly character, however, “Vapor snake” and “Was drauf” sound like their more playful counterparts, bathing in the bright light of day.
“Chain smoke rings like a vapor snake kiss. She says she don’t know why.” That’s what the voices in your head might whisper while you’re listening to “Vapor snake” by Phantom Horse, characterized by the band’s typical lightfooted melancholia echoing through these words. After that, things take a brighter turn on the 12-minute neokraut weirdness of “Was drauf” – imagine a sunburned android fueled by amphetamines frolicking happily through a meadow singing your favourite song.

Split twelve inch

Was drauf (excerpt)

Phantom Horse - Was drauf - Split twelve inch - PY 125 - excerpt

Vaporsnake (excerpt)

Phantom Horse - Vaporsnake - Split twelve inch - PY 125 - excerpt

Droomharmonium I (excerpt)

Hellvete - Droomharmonium I - Split twelve inch - PY 125 - excerpt

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