We don't do things quietly around here. You know that. But every once in a while, a release lands that even we weren't fully prepared for, something so unhinged in the best possible way that it makes you want to flip your desk and start moshing in the ruins. The super WOOPER split is exactly that release.
Fifteen minutes and twenty seconds. That's all it takes. Fifteen minutes and twenty seconds of raw, beautiful, organized chaos, twelve tracks of free jazz, experimental noise, punk fury, and psych weirdness. All killer, zero filler.
🖤 Buy the Vinyl on ElasticStage 🖤Who Are These People and Why Are They Like This
UIUIUI is an experimental duo consisting of Ori Zornitzer (Plopsk6x) and Itay Raiten (Koala), officially headquartered in the legendary and entirely real-sounding Pee Pee Township, Ohio. Their 2023 release UIUIUI – dies made clear what they're about: fourteen tracks of electronic punk, breakcore, hardcore, and full-throttle improvised mayhem. They arrived at this split fully loaded after re-recording some of their materials, ready to beat you up.
And then there's the other half. If you've been following RZRecords for any length of time, Haggari Nakashe and gaop need no introduction. You've seen their names on splits, on drone records, on that one release that made your neighbor knock and ask if everything was okay. gaop has been active since 2000 across noise, dark ambient, IDM, glitch, industrial, jazz, extreme metal, and lo-fi electro-acoustic improv. Haggari Nakashe, sound artist extraordinaire, label co-owner, your familiar, brings the synths, the bass, and the instinct for sonic architecture that longtime RZRecords listeners know and love. From Bad Dreams Revisited to IN DRONE WE TRUST, these two never release the same thing twice.
What Actually Happens on This Record
The super WOOPER split spans electronic punk, avant-punk, drone, grindcore & hardcore, improvisation, jazz-punk, noise rock, and noisegrind. Yes, ALL OF THAST. And it doesn't feel like genre tourism, it feels like three artists who simply live across all these territories.
UIUIUI come in like a caffeinated assault, fractured rhythms, jazz put through the shredder, punk cross-wired with noise electronics. Then Haggari Nakashe and gaop arrive like the back half of a storm: different in weight, equally uncompromising. Two halves in real dialogue. Not a compilation, a serious conversation.
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We've been running splits since before most streaming platforms existed. CDRs, xerox inserts, floppy disks (we failed, but we tried). What makes a great split is the tension between its halves, the dialogue, the way two worlds share the same space and make something larger. The super WOOPER split nails that. UIUIUI and Haggari Nakashe & gaop are not the same kind of beast, but they are absolutely the same kind of hungry.
This one's for the people who still believe that experimental music made on low means and maximum energy is the most honest music there is. We believe that too. We always have.
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