It's one thing to listen to any album that Mick Barr plays on and have yer brain strafed by the man's insanely intricate and obsessive shredding; it's entirely another to actually watch this guy play in the flesh and have his endless streams of dissonant 32nd note runs streak through the air in front of you, to hear the incessant, relentless percussive patter of Mick's guitar pick scraping across the Gibson SG strings and forming a weird rhythmic background to his playing, an alien ticker-tape whirr helicoptering beneath those strange, hypnotic avant-speed fretboard runs. I've been able to see him play once before, in DC at the Warehouse when he did a short run down the East Coast as Octis, and that 40 minute set left me glazed over and drooling from the sheer overload of speedshred fractals that bombarded the twenty of us that were there. That was an experience I've been jonesing to repeat, and while various Octis, Ocrilim and Orthrelm albums make their way across the C-Blast stereo on a regular basis, this double DVD set that Archive just dropped on us is some real trance-manna that contains what are probably the most epically obsessive recordings of Mick Barr etched to plastic so far. This beautifully assembled double DVD captures several complete sets recorded between 2006 and 2007 from Mick performing solo in New York City at The Stone and the Whitney Museum, an Orthrelm set from San Francisco at The Bottom Of The Hill Club, an insane improvised set between Mick and Zach Hill (Hella) in San Fran that blew my fucking head off, and two shorter "excerpts" from Ocrilim that has Mick playing across from bassist Tony Gedrich from Stay Fucked/Archaeopteryx, both of which are in the heavy mode of Ocrilim's Hydra Head album ANNWN. The solo Octis sets and the Orthrelm are nice and long, each at least forty minutes long, so there is a ton of Mick's shredding to sink your teeth into here. This is one meaty dose of avant guitar shred visuals. Two discs, presented in a gorgeous eight-panel foldout sleeve with custom printed vellum disc sleeves, all of which are illustrated with Mick's manic alien code doodles, and held together with a vellum obi band. Limited edition of 500 copies.