Richard Francis & Clinton Watkins split 7" w/Adam Willets | s/t
7" Dungeon Taxis, New Zealand (DG-04)
Edition of 150

"Following releases by John Pilcher & Martin McKelvey and La Lakers, here on Dungeon Taxis, a split 7". One side has a collaborative piece by Eso Steel's/CMR boss Richard Francis with Clinton Watkins (from Whitebass) and on the other side a solo track by Adam Willetts (Saturn). I don't think I ever heard of Whitebass or Saturn. The collaborative piece on the first side is a short heavy beast. Deep end rumble with piercing feedback like sound. A Whitehouse instrumental if you can picture that. Short, merely a few minutes (it seems), blasting away, ending just as abruptly as it started. Adam Willetts side deals also with noise, in an even more monotonous manner. Hard to say what he does here, but it seems to me dealing with some form of computerized noise. Whereas the other side is right to the point, this side seems a bit long to me. Just a bit, not overlong, but it could have gained more power if it would have been a bit more concise. Great hard cover for this small edition of 150 copies."
VITAL WEEKLY 694, September 2009

"The Richard Francis and Clinton Watkins side is a powerful display of fucked up noise mongering and molten hot white rock! This is sound generation at it's most isolated and disturbed." – Norman Records, UK

"...abrasive. Its sandstorm sonority includes the kind of electrical harshness that reminds me a little of Atsuhiro Ito’s infamous flourescent light bulb instruments, though this is more consistent and stable. The sudden cutoff to signal the track’s end insinuates that this blast could continue forever." – Cyclic Defrost, Australia