ELECTRIC ELECTRIC
Electric Electric, a hyperactive three-piece band from Strasbourg, lures us into some spastic dancing with their new type of instrumental music, based on a minimalistic, mechanical and apocalyptic rock.
They create multiple rhythmic and noise-flled loops that utterly electrify the venues they perform in. The audience leaves their show confused and amused by their experimental musical intentions, which take apart piece by piece every elements of a huge rock puzzle in order to better build its future incarnations.
Electric Electric formed in 2004, heavily infuenced by the sounds of the Skingraft label and bands that combine noise-rock and explosive performances on stage. With these foundations, Electric Electric has refned an aesthetic sense of repetition, minimalism, and most of all, dance music. In the midst of their songs, the band also gives off an atmosphere of melancholy and sickness (epilepsy, claustrophobia). Some would say their music fits right between Donna Summer and Sunn-O.
Link: Official Website
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THE NIGHT TERRORS
Spawned from the festering miasma of the Melbourne underground scene, The Night Terrors‘ theremin-fueled electro-noise has been petrifying punters since the year 2000. The Terrors’ formula of soaring theremin, thunderous metal-bass, breakneck drumming and vintage horror synth has earnt them a reputation as one of Australia’s most unusual and original bands.
Featuring a completely instrumental lineup, with lead melodies handled by the dexterous theremin playing of Miles Brown (a student of Russian theremin queen Lydia Kavina) The Night Terrors offer a mind-melting alternative to the standard instrumental / postrock formula. No vocals, no guitars, just theremin, synth, bass and drums, this is mesmerising, other-worldly, bristlingly psychedelic synth-centric electro rock.
Following the release of two stellar EPs “The Night Terrors” and “Lightless” through Unstable Ape Records, The Night Terrors’ debut full length album “Back To Zero” was released in April 2009 through Canadian/Australian label EXO Records.
“Exo Records is good records. Night Terrors music is good music. TNT has a serious Goblin-vibe happening here. They could easily score a horror film set in American Apparel. I could picture tram-loads of Gentlewomen with the same body shape, clothes, opinions and haircuts walking around the racks in a zombie like state, just tripping on all the offensive colours and price tags.” – 10/10 VICE Magazine
“If you want to play in a rock band without a singer you need musical ideas with the strength to carry the music. The night terrors have got it in spades….tracks from the new album “Back to Zero” are crammed with epic melodies, cinematic textures and and the even odd moment of sunshine. A truly original sound. I bought the album.” – AIR Charts
“The Night Terrors’ debut full-length album Back To Zero introduces itself somewhat similarly to one of Goblin’s soundtrack releases or Jean Michel Jarre’s original Oxygéne record. Within seconds the listener is transported to a world created entirely by the Melbourne band’s synth, drum, bass and theremin combination – a place where wolves fly rocket ships protecting helpless planet folk from intergalactic volcanic eruptions (or any arrangement of associated descriptors)…The Night Terrors’ Back To Zero is a singularly impressive 66-minute album that should prove to be a success with any audience across the globe.” – 5/5 Time Off
Link: Official Website
Record Label: EXO Records
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HEIRS
Heirs is the marriage of dark and light. The pain and hopelessness of addiction vs the elation of freedom.
The name Heirs originates from an ideal of “hunting and gathering” musical ideas, and formulating these ideas into an improved version. To write music, without paying some sort of tribute to the artists influencing your everyday subconsciousness, is a dishonest practice. The name stands as a allegory – to be the Heirs of a musical history and to expand on this, becoming a part of history themselves.
Heirs began as a solo project by Damian Coward (Maps, Love Like… Electrocution) in late 2006, founded by a importunity to create a personal sound and direction. Heirs expanded its lineup during 2008 and consists of Brent Stegeman (Whitehorse, Love Like… Electrocution) and Ian Jackson (Damn Arms) on guitars, Laura Bradfield on bass and Coward on drums.
Heirs’ debut full-length “Alchera” is a 43 minute movement of oppressive instrumental power, cyclic ritualism and bleak hallucinogenic revelation. Recorded at Head Gap Studios by Neil Thomason in the heat waves of Melbourne in January 2009 and mastered by James Plotkin (Isis, Khanate, Burning Witch), the 6 pieces recorded capture the band’s live volume – a blanket of sound traversing a rolling dynamic landscape.
Drawing influence from MICHAEL GIRA and his SWANS legacy, the sledgehammer riffs and industrial pummel of GODFLESH, and continuing Stegeman’s incense shrouded low-end incantations from his work with doom dealers WHITEHORSE, combined with Jackson’s reverb-soaked noise, Alchera strips bare the needless excesses of post-rock and heavy metal in favour of something much more concise and affecting. A lurching, drugged-out specter – holding solace in one hand, and vengeance in the other.
From the seething metallic buzz and bluster of the opening track “Plague Asphyx”, through to the crowning low-end turbulence of “Russia”, the recording is an archetype for an existence shrouded in confusion, joy, disappointment and addiction.
Heirs are touring throughout Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Europe/UK for the rest of 2009.
Link: Official Website
Record Label: Denovali / EXO Records
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