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Taxim - Monitoring
"Happiness is a sad song" – that’s something Jean Michel Jarre already knew in 1969. If he would have stayed on that track, maybe his current music would sound like the new album from Taxim. Well, assuming one or two long-term psychiatry stays.
A brand new album entitled Monitoring from German dark electro/ambient/experimental project Taxim has been released on 2nd November 2012 via Ionium Records. You can stream to the whole album from their Bandcamp page or from Ionium Records website. Via this link you can watch the video for the opener of the album "Das Augenproblem" which was officially shared in September.

Taxim is a dark electro and experimental project from Essen, Germany. It was founded by Alex Ney in 1996 as a one-man project. The current line-up consists of: Alex (music, lyrics, vocals, bass), Kat (keyboard, vocals) and M.R. (guitars, vocals). Besides their dark main releases, Taxim occasionally produce electro punk albums.

In the early years (1996-1999) Alex moved through several, mainly alternative music styles (e.g. neoclassic, dark wave, ebm and medieval folk), while he specialised in dark electro and electro-industrial in the early new millenium. However, all Taxim outputs are stylistically very mixed.

Taxim became internationally known through their US debut album "Ecclesiophobia" (2006) that stood out for it’s unusual fast and dirty produced electro-industrial tracks. Earlier, Alex caught some international attention with his "SynthieTrax 64" series, because it was released at a time when game soundtrack remixes were still very rare.

The most noticeable feature of Taxim's music is that it's kept instrumental (occasionally supported by so called cut-up samples).

Tracklisting:

01. Das Augenproblem
02. Tringa Solitaria
03. 2011
04. Digital Revolution
05. Ich Bin Nicht Schuld
06. How Happy You Are
07. Pain Remains
08. 500 Stufen
09. 68/12
10. Dein Kind?
11. World In Slow Motion
Author: NataliaElanor
Translator: NataliaElanor
Source: https://facebook.com/Taxim/ / 2012-11-05 / News


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