What can I say about Unicorn Hard-On that hasn't been said already? In the past decade Val Martino has established herself as the reigning queen of rhythmic noise and noisy techno. Val was doing the beat-based noise thing AGES before the current trend of technoise, and was and still is doing it better than 90% of the rest. Her mastery of the Korg Electribe is unequaled.
Technically Val was not living in Providence at the time this particular CDR was made and put out, but being a longtime Providence resident at this point I think it's still a valid local entry.
She has since released tapes, cdrs and vinyl on labels such as Deathbomb Arc, tanzprocesz, I Just Live Here, More Records/Hot Releases, and most recently her full length LP on the eMego offshoot Spectrum Spools.
This is one of her earliest offerings, simply titled "Unicorn Hard-On no.3" which I got from her when she was living in Philadelphia in 2004. The beats are still there, but mostly take a back seat to blown-out, chopped-up vocal samples and squealing delay-pedal abuse. Nine untitled tracks of truly bent freak electronics.
Mediafire download link HERE
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