Des Esseintes’s Mondo Macabro looks like a K-Tel record (what is with the distinct lack of style in the packaging?), but it’s really a collection of tracks that have previously been available only on vinyl.  The opening track, “Muse,” sets the tone well: it sounds like someone playing violin while a munitions factory burns to the ground.  The rest of the tracks document the resultant destruction/deconstruction.  This is experimental industrial; noisy, rhythmic, and challenging.  I’m especially enamored of the re-working of the theme to Dark Shadows in “Tension.”  Barnabas Collins & co. have never made me think of mechanized terror before, but now they do.

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