‘That doesn’t go anywhere very much,’ you might be saying, but that’s kind of what I like about it. John Peel after playing Speed Your Trip on 22/11/92.
If, as seems possible to judge from its title and the sonic atmosphere of the recording, Speed Your Trip by New York based noisecore band, Helivator is about drugs then all I can say is that their dealers are sadists.
This is an ultimate bad-trip instrumental which manages to make the elements audible as the guitars, predominantly played by Mark Laramie, seem to conjure up both scorching fire and rushes of air. The repetitive ascending scale, which caught Peel’s attention, acts as a foundation around which the music swoops and soars. From 2:22, we get signs of the body consciousness trying to break through in the form of feedback as the track gets dangerously close to ripping the sky open. But having flown so high, the track eventually deposits the listener back to ground again by the end. And in a track in which so much mental feeling is made manifest, the final crashing guitar note encapsulates the immense exhaustion felt at the end of this particular trip.
Video courtesy of Various Artists - Topic
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