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01. Orphx - Word And Symbol
02. Orphx - Layers Of Dura
03. Orphx - Ekstasis
04. Orphx - Auto Erotic
05. Orphx - Sepsis
06. Orphx - Pathogenesis
07. Orphx - Electroencephalographic Measurements
08. Orphx - Tanha
09. Orphx - Words Once Spoken
10. Orphx - Samsara
11. Orphx - Cellular Resonance
12. Orphx - Within
13. Orphx - Prodrome
14. Orphx - Onset
15. Orphx - Chathexis
16. Orphx - Geography
17. Orphx - Final Exit
18. Orphx - Terminal Posture
19. Orphx - Oblivion
20. Orphx - Corridor (Live)
21. Orphx - Summoning (Live)
22. Orphx - Layers of Dura (Live)
23. Orphx - Within / Auto Erotic (Live)
24. Orphx - Samsara (Live)
25. Orphx - Tape Decay (Live)
26. Orphx - Cellular Resonance (Live)
27. Orphx - Tanha (Live)
ARTIST
TITLE
Fragmentation
FORMAT
4LP BOX

LABEL
CATALOG #
HOS 655LP HOS 655LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
10/23/2020

Fragmentation was the third full-length album from Orphx, originally released in 1996 on the legendary Malignant Records label. Rich Oddie, Christina Sealey, and Aron West had founded the project three years earlier, creating pitch black noisescapes inspired by early industrial music and the extreme fringes of metal. By 1996, West had departed to focus on his absurdist noise project Tropism, while Oddie and Sealey began to push Orphx in a more rhythmic direction. Cassette releases on their own Xcreteria imprint (reissued by Hospital Productions and Mannequin Records in 2017) quickly attracted the attention of Malignant Records, who offered to release the next album. Fragmentation was made using the same basic tools as the early cassettes: contact microphones, scrap metal, effects pedals, feedback circuits, a drum machine, a couple of synths, and location recordings and found sounds manipulated by Sealey on reel-to-reel machines and an 8-bit sampler. While early Orphx recordings were primarily improvised direct to tape, this album places much greater emphasis on carefully constructed layers of sound, shaping their improvisational energy into powerful compositions that combines death industrial atmospheres and brutal power electronics with relentless, hypnotic percussion. Themes of illness, infection, and psychopathology dominate the album but are intertwined with references to transcendence, suggesting a desperate search for salvation in the midst of social/psychological disintegration. The Fragmentation reissue on Hospital Productions includes the original album, now remastered by Joshua Eustis (Telefon Tel Aviv), and over an hour of additional rarities and previously unreleased recordings. This includes rare compilation tracks, selections from the Obsession and Progress cassette (BloodLust!, 1996), the Final Moments cassette (Third Force/Isolation, 1997), and live recordings from 1995 and 1996. One of the only acts from the '90s to originate in the industrial underground, cross over into the rhythmic noise enclave of the early 2000s and attain a leadership role in the contemporary live techno apparatus with total authenticity. Clear vinyl; edition of 290.