The collage technique, not a new thing by far cf. everything from John Zorn to electronic music and so now the pastiche collage something like John Oswald yet exploitive of internal source material, though some video game music does find its way into the mix, how could one not expect that with a band name like Samus, the metroid-hunter and early-Nintendo feminist icon (surely some paper is floating around a gender studies department on this very subject)—Samus's career has taken a Black Dice-like trajectory; begun as genre-work and eventually evolving into a more experimental vein, self-proclaimed sludgemetal until an avant turning, Desegano embraces the pastiche collage, mixing in such metal-leaning into a flurry of somewhat swiftly moving bits from the real to the imagined video game soundtrack, noise, and deconstruction—although deconstructed, structured in such a way that all the parts make sense, an ineluctable organization; it makes sense as it is and one wonders if Desegano was constructed in a different manner if it would be as interesting—I venture a "no"—with eight tracks though of song parts sewn together into a patchwork whole, the only coherence that can be jerryrigged out of the inchoate smelting pot is Desegano as itself, the sum of its parts.
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