Blue Hand - Reload Your Life

2006-04-28 / Chris / Reads: 8234

The tracks created by the Halicki brothers, who are the people behind Blue Hand, collected as "Reload Your Life" are an energetic pack of electronic industrial rock with strong beats and synth bits. The vocalist has mastered English quite well for a Pole. The whole is mixed in...

Suicide Commando - Mindstrip

2006-04-26 / _lin / Reads: 15148

It's certain that year 2000 was successful for Johan Van Roy. Next disc premiere - titled "Mindstrip" - preceded double triumph of previous released singles - "Comatose Delusion" and "Hellraiser" on German Alternative Charts. On the other hand, singles often can't attest the quality of whole recording. Looking sceptically on...

Superikone - Energie

2006-04-17 / Lejdi / Reads: 5125

It's the second album of the German band Superikone, released last December. Malte Schmidt is the man behind it all, not only playing but also producing the music. The record begins with a 25 second intro, giving us a taste of things to come, with the words "Superikone bitte zum...

Gale grand Central - Re:Gale

2006-04-06 / Kacper / Reads: 7899

Majka Jezowska (a Polish proto-pop singer) once sang "Electronica is not playing for the musician, it's his heart that gives us the rhythm..." With Gale Grand Central it's quite the opposite. The availibility of the transistors once more showed how de-spirited and futile an attempt to stroke zeroes with ones can...

Wumpscut - Cannibal Anthem

2006-04-04 / Attack / Reads: 9258

Wumpscut is a one of such a music project that takes to my mind associatons: loud, dirty, unusual and not easy. Cover of this new LP suggest that it’s going to sound just like that. What a surprise, author decided to mess with new sounds and rhythm and the effect...

Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine

2006-04-03 / Chris / Reads: 14120

1989 on the electronica scene - the already cult Depeche Mode reach their 10th anniversary, precursors of electromusic and a new approach to sound, probably partially responsible for influencing that what later became Nine Inch Nails. Pretty Hate Machine had four producers: Adrian Sherwood, Le Blanc, Flood (Depeche...