Zoharum bringt zwei bislang digital erhältliche EPs – “Onset Of Oblivion” (2021) und “Abandoned Heritage” (2023) – der aus Oberschlesien stammenden Projekte Moan und Dead Factory auf einer gemeinsamen Kassette heraus. Während die beiden Projekte auf der älteren der beiden Veröffentlichung als Einheit agieren, ist “Abandoned Heritage” mit seinen beiden längeren Stücken als Split-Release konzipiert, gleichwohl der zwischen Dark Ambient, postindustriellem Lärm und Musique Concrète zu verortende Sound über viele Passagen hinweg kohärent wirkt.

“The material contained therein is the result of cooperation, in which each project had an equal impact on its final shape. The publication is a great addition to the discography of both DEAD FACTORY and MOAN, revealing the nature of their work from a slightly different perspective, because it is filtered through the filter of interaction, which to some extent forces the deconstruction of the originally conceived ideas and a change of concept already at the post-production stage. As a result, we are dealing with very interesting, jointly developed musical material, based on the dialogue of artists who come from a similar environment, sometimes inspired by similar phenomena, and at the same time able to maintain an individual language, which translates into colours, emotions, and sources of generated sounds. , clearly leaving its mark on these five long, coherent and atmospheric compositions including both sides of the cassette…” (Zoharum)