Limited edition - 500 copies made, will not be repressed.

Taking their name from a kung fu training device popularised by countless Shaw Brothers films of the 70s, Australias Shaolin Wooden Mens fourth studio release finds them moving further afield from their techno-influenced beginnings and extending upon the
psychedelic trance rock of their more recent outings. Clocking in as a single 40-minute plus track, A Binary Input to Flesh Antenna is a strange disjointed and complex journey. The expectation would be a steady rhythmic track slowly building in tension until some form of
orgiastic payoff at the end, and whilst flirting with some of these expectations SWM have some other ideas. Often just as youve settled in behind the repetitious primal beat, the rug will be pulled from under you with only a dull rushing of electrics and a strange
windswept sound which seems to act as a buffer between many of the parts. Comprised as a series of loosely connected parts or experiments in rhythm and avant garde soundscapes, much of Binary Input to Flesh Antenna feels improvised, concentrating more on
exploring shifting dynamics, than as any stringently composed piece.

In fact its a little hard to know what to make of it as Binary Input to Flesh Antenna could almost be seen as a number of false starts, or rhythmic teases before it finally kicks in around the twenty minute mark, and for the remainder of the piece holds the repetitive
swamp beats over which soaring synthesized sounds squeal and screech over extra percussion. In the end the piece is left with a primal, trapped in the jungle with cannibals feel, as the electronics claw rabidly at themselves, the beat slowly subsides and we are left with
that infernal wind. Epic and exhausting..