Weirding Module - Sounds from the Hibrane

Michael Troutman is best known as one third of the insanely great Ecstatic Peace Michigan garage punk trio Awesome Color, in which he plays bass and throws all kinds of crazed shapes. That considered, his solo project is pretty much completely off the expectation mindmap. Golden Lab first heard Weirding Module on the Beach Fuzz US trip when he played a duo set with Non Horse (aka G. Lucas Crane of The Vanishing Voice) and it was one of the most beautiful, strange and simply awe-inspiring sets we’d ever witnessed. Lucas even cried a little bit afterwards, it was so good. For Michael’s part, and like this wonderful, tripped out, transcendental, mellow brain-melter of a tape, it consisted of a number of analogue synths manipulated through various Moogs and what-have-you to create lightly pulsating tones and drones that loop in weird places and always have you guessing as to when they’re gonna come back around, even when they’re as familiar as the smell of your Dad’s farts.

If you listen to this tape tired, don’t expect to make it to the end of it. It’s the most therapeutic fucking thing you’ll ever hear. That said, LISTEN UP! Because it’s so fucking worth staying awake for. It’ll seep into your ears and worm around your brain and fill all those squidgy, grey grooves with a jelly-like liquid of pure weirdness. When you hear it, the name and the title – they make total sense.

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