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If I didn't know better, I'd say this is was field recording of a bubbling, cheese-drenched potato casserole, fresh out the oven. Mmm, yeah. That's good.But nope. It's actually the sound of thousands of maggots, all writhing and, well, being maggots in a container of mud. The field recording itself comes by way of sound designer Richard Devine, dating back to 2010, and is truly beyond the realm of descriptors like "putrid" and "moist." If it's not dissimilar to what heaps of maggots feasting on a corpse sounds like, then it's got to be something ripped out of the pages of misophonia, the horrible anger you feel when listening to someone chew.It is just awful. But damnit if it's not already the spookiest time of year again, so enjoy, I guess?"I buried two H2a-XLR hydrophones below the surface (in the mud), and placed two DPA-4060 Lav microphones on the top surface and let the maggots call all over the place," Devine explains. "All 4 channels are unprocessed, unedited 24bit-96khz captured with a Sound Devices recorder."Hydrophones: not just for indexing the sounds of the planet melting anymore.