Past

Past is a flow of modern compositions whose sounds are culled from an industrial soundscape vocabulary. Each composition flows into the next, and during the first two, banging metal and construction sounds are used as gunfire, while dragged chains are flung against poles. As construction parts clang against each other, the sounds carry with an open ring that places the piece outdoors. At times more like the shattered images of a sound collage, Li Chin Sung's compositions range from the alien cavernous soundscape of "Dream On" to the brutal violence of "Yin 1." Often focused on the percussive use of sound, there are times when the layered samples become like very tough industrial dance tracks, as in "Suffocation" and "Wake Up and Death." Other tracks have a cathartic, thick, grained fuzz, with fast-escaping bleeps that sound like escaping steam from a pressurized industrial life.