Carter Tutti Void – Transverse

Executed and recorded as a live stage show, for which these four sizeable noise ambles were specifically composed and rehearsed beforehand, Chris & Cosey (veteran members of industrial music all-stars Throbbing Gristle) joined hands in techno-prayer with Factory Floor's Nik Void at Mute's Short Circuit festival last year, uniting grandmaster and padawan in an unholy creative alliance. In doing so, the trio have produced the ideal soundtrack to an evening spent in Gaspar Noé 's fictional sex dungeon Rectum, or at the very least a really intense but kinky bike ride.

Despite repetitive booming tribal rhythms that only a satanic Manuel Göttsching could ever hope to rival, the LP feels oddly jazzy and melodically exploratory. Void's post-industrial disco blood is injected into Chris's comb-filtered Kompakt beats, while Cosey's subtly distorted jackal moans lurk amidst perverted impulse frequencies and fiery head-locking grooves. Immediate, unstable, fervent and a hazard to your ears: Transverse is an admirable live document.