EOTR 2025 V2.2 - 2

"I'm your daughter and I'm your lover... I'm your servant and I'm your slave... I presume to know you, I recognize your smell, I dream of possessing you, I yearn for your flavor....

In love with your control, In love with your control, I'm captivated by your narrative, Possessing you makes me free, Becoming free makes me slave. I'm in love, I'm in love..."

Dame Area are Barcelona-based duo Silvia Kostance and Viktor L. Crux. For labels like Mannequin Records, B.F.E Records and their own imprint/organisation Màgia Roja, the pair have shared their raw, distorted take on industrial, minimal synth, EBM and post-punk, characterised by propulsive rhythms and DIY sensibilities. It's no surprise that their live shows are also widely renowned, Dame Area's sound lends itself perfectly to the stage, and on the group's third album they translate a similar "assaultive intensity" to the release. The first of two twin LPs, Toda la mentira sobre Dame Area / All the Lies about Dame Area explores "an original seductive idea of pop, laced with avant-garde subversion" and sees the pair push the boundaries more than ever before.

Toda la mentira sobre Dame Area / All the Lies about Dame Area

PREMIERE: Dame Area - Innamorata del tuo Controllo [B.F.E Records / Màgia Roja]

Cut You Off

Give Me a Bite

Give Me A Bite

Australia Stops

Through The Sewer

Lover's Leash

What Will Become of England?

What Will Become of England? (Stick In The Wheel Remix)

Tuesday

ghost

marble arch

this old house

teeth

goop

Eazy Peazy

EZPZ

Grow A Tongue In Time

Maegan

pre order: mannequinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mnq-…me-area-lp

release date sept 13, 2024

On September 13th, 2024, Dame Area will unveil their highly anticipated fourth studio album, "Toda la verdad sobre Dame Area" ("The Whole Truth about Dame Area"), a collaboration with the renowned labels Mannequin Records and Humo Records.

Formed in 2017 within the vibrant underground scene of Barcelona's Màgia Roja club, Dame Area comprises the Italian-Catalan duo Silvia Konstance and Viktor Lux Crux. They fuse industrial-tribal polyrhythms with minimalist synth basslines, drawing profound inspiration from avant-garde masters such as Esplendor Geometrico, Throbbing Gristle, Suicide, Einstürzende Neubauten, Can, Coil, Swans, Big Black, and Wolf Eyes.

This record represents a new phase in Dame Area's discography. It's a big step up in terms of sound, composition and ideas. This record it's the perfect representation of what they have been playing live the last three years and what most people know them for. Also it serves as a companion piece to 2022’s Toda la mentira sobre Dame Area ("All The Lies About Dame Area"), which had a stronger focus on melody, while this latest record is more aggressive and industrial-influenced, with a greater emphasis on percussion.

Tracks like the Suicide-influenced "Si no es hoy cuando es" and "Sempre Cambiare" are an onslaught of industrialism and experimentalism—formidable, volatile, and unpredictable avant-garde subversion. Silvia explains, "One of our biggest influences is doing what our influences wouldn't do. We're more into dynamics and structures atypical of electronic music, with changes in time signatures, starts and stops, and dynamics more typical of rock music. We use any musical idea from any genre. Some songs on the album are based on flamenco rhythms, others influenced by '60s experimental pop, heavy metal, or contemporary electronic music."

The confrontational "Vengo dall'aldilà" accelerates with heavy percussion, while "Tu me hiciste creer" builds into a rhythmic, transcendent noise of yelled vocals and hypnotic beats. Viktor adds, "This song took us more time to complete than any other we have recorded. It was a very organic process, evolving slowly from some instrumental percussive stuff we were doing live. Then we started using feedback as a rhythmic element (through a metallic sheet), and this was the first song where we incorporated this element, typical of noise-rock and experimental rock."

Elsewhere, "Esto Es Nuestro Ruido" represents a manic, eclectic form of contemporary industrial music, post-punk, and EBM. Silvia notes, "It's the first album we recorded outside a studio. Although we've been playing live with metallic percussion and floor tom from the very start, in the studio, with some exceptions, it was mostly sample-based until now. On Toda la verdad sobre Dame Area, all drums and almost all metallic percussion have been recorded live."

With a growing reputation as one of the best live bands around since their inception, Dame Area has toured extensively across Europe, performing at renowned festivals like Atonal, CTM, Nuits Sonores, Dour, and Fusion, as well as legendary clubs such as Berghain, Tresor, Apolo, and Spook Factory.

Recorded at Sol de Sants Studios and Estudio Hermetic between August and November 2023

Silvia Konstance: vocals, synths, percussions, electronics, production
Viktor L. Crux: synths, drums, percussions, electronics, production
Mixing and additional production by Guillermo Sánchez Rojo
Mastering by Paul Mac at Hardgroove Mastering
Designed by Leo Sousa
Photography by Fabio Calabretta
Photo concept by Dame Area

Dame Area - Vengo dall'aldilà

this is my california

this is my california / bear walk

bear walk

Yo Quiero, Yo Puedo

Conflictos

Written & produced by Jim Ghedi 
Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by Peter Fletcher at Black Bay Studios

Beneath the Willow Lyrics

Young Henry was born on a terrace yard
He begged and starved for all that he’s got
His dad once left when first was born 
And mum’s on week binges and beats with scorn 

*Chorus
This flimsy house 
Is falling down
With us inside 
And we can't get out 

Loved ones now lay outside pubs 
In gutters laid bare as the daylight comes 
Been signed off work from stress again 
He broke down in shadows from the rising rents 

*Chorus

Old friends now walk out at dawn 
Looking for a branch to hang from 
Dear old friend tell me what you see 
In the morning light beneath the willow tree 

*Chorus

Far you have fallen * repeated 

*Chorus

Beneath The Willow

EOTR 2025 V2.2 - 2

Tom Witney