French electronic artist Desastrato offers one new tune, and gets cut up and sampled by Room on the other half of this two-track assemblage. The cut-up track, "How to Make Beats (Room's Pot-pourri)" plays like it sounds -- it's basically a primer, designed to bring uninitiated listeners up to speed on Disastrato's past beats. At twelve-plus minutes, it drags, especially during its nothing beginning, but the pace picks up when it hits the four-minute mark and more concrete beats enter the fray. It changes tack frequently -- one minute we're listening to a child's sampled crying combined with a tinkling keyboard loop, and the next we're weathering a storm of scattered notes and beats. It's an experience to listen to, but its lack of direction will frustrate anyone who expected Room to assemble the samples rather than lay them out randomly.

"Desirez Rien (After a Rice Kick" is the real draw -- it's an actual new track from Disastrato himself. It's about half the previous track's length, but has far more intriguing (and coherent) ideas. As it opens, the sounds of heavy industry -- typewriters, chains, bars -- clang violently, then stop abruptly. A haunting passage follows: a choir repeats a depressive melody over the sound of heavy rain. A woman coughs and cries softly in the background, her choked sobs occasionally breaking through into the foreground of this disturbing, occasionally frightening composition. Try spinning it in the car while it's raining to get the full effect.

Taken together, the two songs provide an interesting look into Disastrato's work. There's not quite enough substance here for Dissecting Disastratos to stand on its own as music, but it would make a perfect soundtrack to a David Lynch short film.