Mesh-Key US Schallplatten & CDs

Review: One of two Tolerance albums to be reissued by Mesh-Key, Divin came as the second LP by the famous alias of Japanese singer and musician Junko Tange - a key fixture of the Osaka industrial scene in the late 1970s. Contrasting to their first album Anonym, Divin gets dubbier with it, abandoning many of the former album's creepy tones for subterranean, soily undulations. That being said, its weird blend of reversy 'pulse static', hues of tape noise, and found sound samples (vocals barely pop out from the buzz on occasion, making them sound like ghost EVPs picked up on ghostbusting equipment) make for a haunting listen as ever. To top it all off, this is an audiophile-primed pressing at 45 RPM, after having been remastered by one legacy stalwart, Stephan Mathieu.