Frkwys Vol 4 vinyl

Cult avant gardists Psychic Ills are the focal point of the latest FRKWYS release from RVNG INTL. For this project the band approached artists who reflect important chapters in the formation of what we now call electronic music. Some twelve months later we have the finished product, gloriously presented as ever, with a sleeve design that imitates a vintage photo album. Detroit legend Juan Atkins was seemingly contacted on a whim and jumped at the chance to transform the sprawling psychedelic drone of ''Mantis'' into an equally hypnotic near ten minute box jam which brilliantly utilises the sliding guitar and menacing bass. Gibby Haynes from Butthole Surfers was entrusted with the K hole darkness of ''I Take You As My Wife Again'' and delivers a reimagination that grips your attention thanks to the muddle of strings and oscillating synth arrangements. Finally the criminally short ambience of ''Witchcraft Breaker'' is stretched out and drowned in a wall of industrial strength sound by Hans-Joachim Irmler, founding member of German kraut-fathers Faust.