Frigid Prose

The Croatian band Transmisia is known for its brutal delivery. Here, Mick Harris (Scorn, Napalm Death, Pain Killer) remixes the band's music. His additions of persistent bass and looping broken into Transmisia's outbursts create an inconsistent and challenging recording. It is easy to write it off as too piecemeal, but a chaotic charm also lies herein. Conceived by Harris and Eraldo Bernocchi, impressed as they were by the group's noisy assault on its first two albums, Frigid Prose contains material from the sessions of those first two albums. Additionally, there are previously unreleased tracks and remixes that lead to new and completely different versions in diabolical dark ambient dub. The sudden collisions of upbeat and downbeat material marginalizes this album but, as the Transmisia material is so obscure, this preserves a version of the band's output. Combining the dub influence of Harris, which he also shows on Scorn and Lull, exerts a Bill Laswell-like influence here. The Italian composer Bernocchi, himself both post-industrial and post-ambient, also adds islands of relative tranquility to this music.