Bonnie Baxter, “Nocturnal Emissions” (Hausu Mountain)

A member of Brooklyn's Kill Alters with Nicos Kennedy and drummer Hisham Bharoocha (Boredoms, ex-Lightning Bolt, ex-Black Dice), multi-instrumentalist Bonnie Baxter is also a vocal sorcerer with audio subversion at the forefront of her approach. Her work with Kill Alters deconstructs rock into a gently mind-bonking soundtrack that conjures an amorphous alternate reality. No matter how sober you may be, you will feel disoriented while listening to Kill Alters.

As a solo artist, Baxter has released two albums for Hausu Mountain, a prodigious fount of excellent, weird music: Ask Me How Satan Started and the new AXIS. With these records, Baxter uses drum machines, iPad, and her own drastically FX'd voice to create the sort of chaotic, noisy electronic music that marked the extreme end of the IDM spectrum, as heard on labels such as Rephlex, Mego, Schematic, Tigerbeat6, etc. If Regan MacNeil/Linda Blair's voice in The Exorcist gripped you, you'll probably be enthralled by the dark magic Baxter works on her own cords.

"Nocturnal Emissions" is the kind of music you might expect to hear in the most disturbing climactic scene of an E. Elias Merhige film. Baxter's eldritch scatting punctures a throbbing drone of unsettling sonority, like Demdike Stare if they preferred radioactive yellow over black in their tonal and visual palette. I should've posted this über-creepy track on Halloween, but better late than never.