Processed World by Iceman Junglist Kru x Degradation
Iceman Junglist Kru and Degradation link up a third time for PROCESSED WORLD, a 90 minute split of rave memorial grimescapes and melted breakcore dubs. Featuring some of the earliest IJK tunes, and a dripping fistful of Degradation’s bin bag machine sludge, the two crews join forces to deliver refried and reified rollers that lope through the brown sauce of Britain’s folkways to emerge drenched in the static of the night before.
A companion piece to the grimecore noise dub cassette SMELTEN / COPS on Industrial Coast (2024), PROCESSED WORLD sees IJK and Degradation collage collapsing breakbeats, icy drones, storm drain synthesis and intercepted radio transmissions into two unbroken suites of UK hardcore continuum. Like the recycled alchemy of Coil's Gold Is The Metal, PROCESSED WORLD is built from a collection of tunes found inside the mixing desk, with moth-bitten fragments expanded and lost bounces resurrected.
IJK’s side of the mixtape — 'I Just Want To Go Into Weird Companies And See What The Fuck Is Going On' — asks no questions and provides no answers. It simply appears in MS Outlook at 3:17am, cc’ing the boss and the office ghost. Corporate esoterica with a 160bpm heartbeat, it is an unscheduled onboarding slideshow conducted entirely in psychic feedback and indebted to the venerable John T. Gast.
For their side, ‘Processed World’, Degradation trudge through the depths of electro magnetic intrusions and stuttering breaks in a somnambulant fugue. Wrapped in snapped tendons of piercing feedback, the chatter of apes dissolve into 16-bit video game samples, guttural pulses, organ drones, merked strings and the scrape of bone on stone. A feverish dream diary built from Babylon paralysis and soundboy phantasias, ‘Processed World’ documents life lived with a warbling pitch speed, when social machinery has broken down, but work is expected to continue. This is spliff music for the dangerously sober.
