From Wave to EBM, from NDW to Punk and everything else in and out of the box. It is like going to the club meeting up with Kraftwerk on speed and The Sex Pistols on Acid. Staatseinde creates a theatrical mix of pulsing electro with nostalgic hopeful synth lines, all performed live with synthesizers, a sequencer and tantalizing vocals. [Discogs]
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Joan Didion famously wrote “we tell ourselves stories in order to live,” but more often it’s other people telling us the stories, which we choose to believe or to disbelieve. Faith is powerful, even when it’s misplaced or misdirected, and stories have consequences. Contradictory stories sew division and conflict, stories revealed to be fiction can result in cognitive dissonance. Maria Violenza is an electro / Arabian / (post) punk solo project by Cristina, based in Rome, Italy. [Discogs] Since the beginning of Freedom Club it was imagined to add vinyls to the output. The “Refusal EP” is the first of these vinyls. It features tracks by all six artists who are responsible for the first six EP’s already released. This EP is very much what Freedom Club is about: uncompromised dark beats and rough electronic sounds. Not defined to one specific style or genre but coherent in mood and esthetics: vague, raw, unpolished and dark. Auva Duhr, Monocorpse, The Wheel Of Rituals, The Untitled, Nihilist Sounds and ЯTRA all go for a full on attack mode. Some stay 100% true to their trademark sound while others explore and incorporate new dimensions and even push the limits of what you could expect from them. There is a lot of acid in the mix here and lots of industrial sounds are poured over you. When speeding up there is no surrender to the beat while when slowing down it only gets darker and colder. The “Refusal EP” must be considered a manifesto of Freedom Club. |




