2.2MI by DAN TREVITT / WESTOV TEMPLE

Dan Trevitt and Westov Temple mark Great Ciicles' transition into the next phase of releases with a split 12”. Check!!Moving away from strictly white label/white sleeve packaging, Great Circles has widened its Philadelphia based collaborative team, with jacket designs created via video disruption by Seppuku Overwrite, and screen printing by Mark Price [markpriceisafactory.net]. The A-side opens with Dan Trevitt's Mendacious Truths, an immediate onslaught of warehouse madness, with its bruising kick drum, raw voltages, and organized chaos. Trevitt’s The Vapid follows, an evolving experiment in sound design, with polyrhythmic patterns, subtle percussive undertones, voices from the distant future, and droning discordant negative space. Spanning the B-side, Westov Temple’s Dr. Sardon was recorded in one take while preparing new sounds for a live set performed the following night at Industry of Machines in Brooklyn. Though it is a divergence from previously released material, Dr. Sardon exemplifies the sound of Westov Temple’s live sets over the last six months, most notably in the driving, relentless rhythm and in the crescendo - both in volume and tension - that extends across the entire piece.