Column One
Whip Cracking & Death Defying (A Ceremony)

Listening notes

Column One released *Whip Cracking & Death Defying (A Ceremony)* on the 90% Wasser label in 2016 under catalog number WVINYL 019. The release is formatted as a vinyl record and carries a notably wide span of genre classifications: Classical, Contemporary, Education, Non-Music, and Pop.

The record consists of two sides. The A-side is titled "Whip Cracking & Death Defying A Celebration Of Standards," and the B-side is titled "Death Cracking & Whip Defying A Celebration Of Standards." The relationship between the two titles is immediately apparent — they are mirror variations of one another, with the words "Whip" and "Death" exchanging positions between sides. Whether this structural inversion reflects the content of each side or functions as a purely conceptual gesture is not established by the available information.

The genre tags assigned to this release are themselves worth noting. The inclusion of both "Classical" and "Pop" alongside "Non-Music" and "Education" suggests a release that resists straightforward categorization, or one that was catalogued with deliberately broad or ironic intent. The "Non-Music" designation in particular is a classification sometimes applied to spoken word, field recordings, noise, or other audio works that fall outside conventional musical frameworks, though no specific details about the content of this record are available to confirm how that tag applies here.

Column One is a Berlin-based project, and 90% Wasser is the label associated with their releases, though no further verified details about either the group or the label are available within the scope of this entry.

No track durations are listed for either side.

*Unreviewed draft — requires fact-checking before publication.*