Cipher Productions

In the wake of the late 1990s Claremont serial killings, T Wojcicki (Empty Vessel) and H Gillett (Pterygium) embarked on a series of late night collaborative sessions sparked by the shadow-clad violence, urban paranoia and intemperant isolationism of the killings’ social grip. Their nocturnal sessions manifested four tracks at the subgenre crossroads of dark ambience, power electronics and death industrial: the duo carefully constructed four haunts of clouded electronics, stygian melodics, effected vocals and crevices of lividity which then leeched out across a mere 19 cassette copies on the duo’s Cabin Fever Networks label.

A decade on, Cipher Productions reissues this obscurity of the Australian underground which glimpses elements of its authors’ central projects while finding new voice in the cross-section. New, expanded artwork and an improved permeation of 50 copies, housed in a manila envelope and clinging to related visual ephemera. Chrome tapes, handstamped enveloped and labels.