current listening

I first got into E.V.P. by listening to Coil; as I became more and more wrapped up in their personal mythology, I found they recorded many of their own "ghostly voices" by leaving equipment on nearby magickal or psychedelic events, or by finding curious sounds in malfunctioning hardware (that Balance sings almost exclusively about death, particularly his own - which happened just over four years ago now - adds a deeply moving level of beyond-the-grave eeriness to their work), but it was Coast to Coast AM's features on Electronic Voice Phenomenon that got me hooked - they were a bit more blatantly "spooky", perhaps, but hearing actual children's voices or the sounds of men screaming seemingly coming out of nowhere ensured my continued interest in the subject. Sure, there's a great deal of room for fraud and over-eagerness in both the arenas of AM Radio and Industrial Music, which isn't particularly lessened on the E.V.P. comp I've been listening to recently issued by Touch Music, but that doesn't make the idea any less engrossing, or the sounds any less haunting. Tap in: