Label: SHISHI
Catalog: SHI001
Artist: Damaged Clock
Title: Nights
Format: Digital

Artwork: SIN OF THE FATHER
Mastering: Levan Andiashvili

Damaged Clock - Driver Man

Frenetic Electro. Strong techno. Overwhelming EBM.

Radikal Kuss joins BARRO Music Label, and they offer us BARRO # 005, a 5-track EP, available in both physical (vinyl) and digital format. The EP is a complete bomb, from WAR, the destructive kicks off the track, to IGNORANCE IS A CRIME, the closing track, with sensual rhythms and suggestive vocals.

Radikal Kuss is an enigmatic Belgian Techno Body Music duo hidden behind an idea: shake minds and bodies with their techno body concept. Poetic lyrics, erotic tension, powerful rhythm, dirty bass, and sharped synths.

With this release in BARRO Music Label, they reaffirm their commitment. Synthesized voices, with a deep message, winding dance, frenetic rhythms, like hypnosis introduced to your body through your ears and shakes it with no mercy or concessions.

Their sound is a perfect match for the Madrid-based label and his 5th release, with previous references of artists such as Esplendor Geométrico, Amato, or Years of Denial, consolidating itself as a benchmark label in EBM, Electro, Techno or Industrial in Spain. The above references have been supported by artists such as Dave Clarke, Phase Fatale, The Hacker, Lokier, NX1, Unhuman, Alienata, Reka, and many more.

Punk spirit. Taste of freedom. Unfiltered intensity.

B2 - Ausser Kontrole

The covid pandemic had a great impact on humanity, on the way we relate to each other and on many other sociological aspects that conditioned our daily lives for a time. It also limited the economic stability of artists, programmers and club owners, however, and in reference to the artists who were unable to work in front of their audiences, some were able to delve into other artistic subjects derived entirely from creation. Rhys Fulber took advantage of this period of reflection to integrate himself into a different creative medium, influenced especially by the effect of human beings on nature. Brutal Nature was born as a consequence of the confinement, released in November 2021, and among its qualities we must highlight the introspective character of the Canadian producer, as he manages to adapt his hard and forceful style within a sensitive harmonic atmosphere.

Brutal Nature continues two years later with six versions by different authors. Brutal Nature Redux features the participation of artists and projects from the contemporary electronic music scene such as Years of Denial, Sarin, Evitceles, Qual and Vanity Productions, and another legend of the Canadian industrial scene, Orphx.

Years of Denial’s take on “Rogue Minority” injects some emotion and humanity into the stark and aggressive original while preserving the driving bass riff and lifting it into the sound of a futuristic tribal gathering. Berlin’s Sarin is up next, leaning into the future EBM style he also shares with Fulber but amping up the intensity and apocalyptic dance floor elements of Central State Institute. Night Render is given a darker and more sinister sheen by up-and-coming Bulgarian producer, Evitceles. The nature elements of the original are replaced by a cinematic dystopia, akin to salvaging lost technology in a ruined city. 

Orphx add their rhythmic sophistication to “Stare at the Sun, tripping and refining the original down to its base elements while tuning Sara Taylor’s (Youth Code) screams across what appears to be several channels of short wave radio. Qual’s radical re-interpretation of “Pyrrhic Act” brings elements of Fulber’s past history in EBM right to the fore, creating a groove that’s both retro and very modern, slowing it down so the tension hangs heavier in the air. Lastly but certainly not least, Vanity Productions highlights the “nature” of “Fragility”, accentuating it with delicate clouds hanging in an air of contemplation; darkness and light coexisting in thick emotional textures.

Release date: July 14, 2023.

Premiere: Rhys Fulber - Rogue Minority (Years of Denial Remix) [FR Recordings]

Hewn from the lineage of 1980s EBM, Semantix’s "Caustic Motion" EP is a severe lesson in crunchy basslines and relentless beats from start to finish. The Dallas-based producer is known for his specific style of EBM, the kind that provokes head banging and fist swinging, will release his first SYNTHICIDE EP to coincide with the label and party's tenth anniversary. 

"Caustic Motion" takes no time for pause—it’s about precision and control. The EP is not for the faint of heart but, in fact, the opposite: those calloused and broken. Those who are searching but have not yet found.

Caustic Motion

Bootlicker

Semantix - Bootlicker [SYN020]

Available on Strict Tempo Volume One, Part 2: Obsessions
Order digital and CD now on https://stricttempo.bandcamp.com/album/strict-tempo-volume-one-part-2

Track buy link: https://stricttempo.bandcamp.com/track/into-eternity

Alpha Sect (Strasbourg, France) 
Hailing from Thessaloniki, Greece, Alpha Sect is a project of George McCall, which is focused on breaking electro patterns and pumping body music with serious punk influences. He started his music career as a guitarist in the post-metal band Sleepstream with 2 albums on their track record and he is an active musician with participations in physical theatre performances with his side-project. Join the chant, follow the sect.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alphasectmusic/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alphasectmusic/

Credits:
Track Title: Into Eternity
Main Artist: Alpha Sect
Composer: Georgios Veroiotis
Mastering engineer: Rodney Orpheus
Executive producer: Vox Sinistra
Artwork: Andre Bagus Prasetyo (Deepless)

Alpha Sect - Into Eternity

Take Control

Lasagnes sans sucre

Released on EBM/Techno compilation by Mecanica Records

Some Have To Dance .​.​.​Some Have To Kill

Buy Vinyl

The Man Who Wasn't There

Taken from "Visage" (LPC007)
https://collectiflapetitecompagnie.bandcamp.com/album/visage

mixed by https://soundcloud.com/kujo-project at Modular Mind Mastering
mastered by Boris Arnal

Sept, 2018.

L'orbite vide

Knife ha elegido la canción "Defeated By Own Hands" del artista lituano Teatre, que forma parte de la última recopilación de Up North Records.
La etiqueta presenta "Northern nightmares Vol.1", el sexto lanzamiento de cassette centrado en el lado electrónico oscuro de la música de baile.  11 artistas internacionales contribuyen con su talento para proporcionar un lanzamiento sólido para el nuevo sello Melbourne. Las cintas saldrán después de covid-19, pero pueden disfrutar de la versión digital.

2020 el año de daños y control. La música nunca se detendrá.

100 cassettes limitados estarán disponibles después de la pandemia.

https://upnorthrecordss.bandcamp.com/album/v-a-northern-nightmares-vol-1-unr006

Knife has picked the track "Defeated By Own Hands" from the lituanian artist Teatre wich is part of the latest copilation from Up North Records.
The label presents “Northern nightmares Vol.1”The 6th Cassette release focusing on the dark electronic side of dance music. 11 international artists contribute their talent to provide one solid release for the new Melbourne Label. Tapes will be out after covid-19 but you can enjoy the digital version.

2020 the year of damage and control. The music will never stop.

100 limited cassettes will be available after the outbreak.

https://upnorthrecordss.bandcamp.com/album/v-a-northern-nightmares-vol-1-unr006

Teatre - Defeated By Own Hands [Up North Records]

Welcoming the french duo 'Pudeur' lead by Mathis Kolkoz (founder of SynthRave band Blind Delon) and Paul Brousse (pbfk, member of hardcore and death bands Influence Néfaste and Epitaphe) which present their first body of work. Somewhere between Punk-EBM and Black Metal, a genre they like to describe as 'Black Body Music'. 

Remixed by The Undertakers Tapes and Incendie, Chrome Corpse, Imperial Black Unit and Mind/Matter. 

Tapes, Patches and Digital here : 
https://areazrecords.bandcamp.com/album/areazt009-magie-noire

Mathis Kolkoz : Guitar/Synth 
Paul Brousse (pbfk) : Vocals

Visual : Mathis Kolhoz