Ball of Wax 70 Songs: 9​-​5 Hyperfuck – “At Time of Recording (2023) LTJ Bukem is 56 Years Old”

My first exposure to the immersive onslaught of 9-5 Hyperfuck was when Death Spa played our first show with them at Nii Modo, a former Bartell Drugs in downtown Seattle that has been converted to a beautifully post-apocalyptic performance space and gallery. It was the perfect setting for this night of dark, heavy, super-queer music, exemplified by the live electronic bludgeoning delivered upon us all by this phenomenal duo. If you don’t have the time to enjoy them live at an anarchic arts co-op in a dystopian downtown setting,  “At Time of Recording (2023) LTJ Bukem is 56 Years Old” (which, incidentally, is an early contender for Best Song Title of 2024) does a good job of compressing the experience into just under three minutes. Strange, synthesized noises swirl, hand-played electronic drums hammer and pulse, an insistent voice intones – and absolutely EVERYTHING is distorted and louder than it should be, but you should probably turn it up even louder before you play it again.