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Plague Pits is a collective from Bern, Switzerland. Inspired by the D.I.Y. electronic tape underground of yore, they play disco dirges for the Anthropocene – cold wave for a heating planet.
After two remarkable EPs on the Dutch label Enfant Terrible (2019 and 2020), one on Switzerland’s Lux Rec (2020), several tracks on various compilations and around sixty concerts all over Europe, the Parisian duo Leroy Se Meurt now offers an updated version of his electronic punk, for the first time in long format, on the Berlin label Mannequin Records. This first album, named Voué à Rouiller, sees the band improve its existing formula, while exploding its own shackles. Their EBM, post-punk, electro remains, but the tone hardens severely. Abrasive rock pieces are now added to the mix, where electric sounds rumble and seek their place in the middle of this electronic discharge where synths, samplers and other drum machines reign. The minimalist, straight-cut compositions systematically hit the mark. The texts, in French or Turkish, still evoke the mysticism or the darkness that characterized them until now, but today we feel a new force, like a revolt that is emerging.
Silent Servant was an American techno DJ and producer. Born in Central America, he was brought up in Los Angeles, and started DJing at the age of 16. In 1999 he made contact with Regis, the founder of the Birmingham-based Downwards label, becoming a member of Regis’s Sandwell District collective, with whom he released a series of singles throughout the 2000s. He was Sandwell District’s art director, and has worked as a graphic designer and as an art director at a high end eyewear company. He died in January 2024. |
