Inverted Umlaut Podcast, No. 5: As Slow As Possible
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Some metal and hardcore records just sound better sloooooower. Inspired by producer Shamantis’ surprisingly affecting 35-minute ambient edit of teen pop star Justin Bieber, this week’s Inverted Umlaut turns the crushing grimness of Electric Wizard, Converge, Black Sabbath and others into hour-long bliss-outs using the open-source software PaulStretch. Since each edit is on the long side and the show’s only two hours, I’ve provided full 320kbps MP3 download links for each track below, plus edits that didn’t make it on the show!
Last week, upon receiving my copy of the 2xLP reissue of Converge’s Jane Doe in the mail (best punk/hardcore/metal record of the ’00s? Possibly!), I ran home and threw down “side J,” only to be greeted by a blast of torpid sludge. Whoops—turns out the Jane Doe reissue is a 45 RPM! Still, it was a serendipitous, if masochistic, discovery, so I’m glad that my buddy DJ Young Padawan (aka Lars Gotrich of NPR fame) did one better and totally Biebered that shit, transforming one of the fastest, most blisteringly heavy records of the last decade into something you might reasonably meditate to. Strong work, Lars!
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