Explicitly devoted to Juan Mendez, whose affect runs deep on this seductively sinister nook of underground, impartial digital music, Dekmantel UFO Sequence continues its resurgent type with a brand new album of bruising, industrial wave and techno from Damaged English Membership, Songs of Love and Decay.
A Shallow Lake, Prisoner, and Evening Fall singles are out as we speak giving a preview of the album out March twenty first. Pre-order the album and hear to the tracks HERE.
UK techno mainstay Oliver Ho debuted his darkish and brooding alias greater than 10 years in the past with a launch on Jealous God underneath the steerage of the late, nice Juan Mendez (Silent Servant). These aware of Ho’s fearsome and sometimes brutal futurist early EPs on Blueprint, Drumcode, Floor and Meta will concentrate on his means to inject a darkish narrative into useful electronics. With Damaged English Membership, he delivers monotone vocals and shards of stay instrumentation over slamming beats and bleak synths. The blank-stared, pin-point-focused electronics and layers of noise show post-punk influences, dragging collectively industrial experimentation and pitch-black membership techno. His debut on Jealous God was adopted by a number of releases on Veronica Vasicka’s Cititrax (one break up with Silent Servant). Following these first defining musical statements there got here a string of 4 albums on Ron Morelli’s Lies data, exploring metallic, warehouse techno and synth-wave noise, essentially the most outstanding of which was the White Rats trilogy. This three-album saga explores concepts of violence and the darkish elements of human behaviour, each private and political.
Damaged English Membership just isn’t solely a manufacturing alias for Oliver but additionally a dynamic stay present, that encompasses stay vocals and digital drum percussion, performing all around the world in golf equipment, stay venues and artwork galleries. Latest highlights embrace Berlin Atonal, Cloth, Tresor, and Dekmantel Pageant. Oliver continues to develop the challenge with a imaginative and prescient that units a tone of each atmospheric cinematic suspense and electric-charged uncooked techno.
Throughout the overarching aesthetic of the Damaged English Membership sound, Ho finds the liberty to ship a full spectrum album as numerous as it’s constant. You may sense the shadow of his roots in 90s tribal techno punching by on Crawling and Demise Cult, whereas England Heretic leans on thick swathes of analogue synthesis indebted to Giallo soundtracks and the ever-compelling lure of 80s synthwave. In its grinding layers of distortion and dubbed out vocals Vessel Of Pores and skin speaks extra to the post-punk influences which have set Damaged English Membership aside because the outset. This isn’t a purely retro-fetishist expedition, although — Pacific Island Kill and Misplaced Gods exude stark modernism of their sharply-angled sequences and dramatic sound design, transferring past the useful calls for of 4/4 dance music to succeed in to extra cinematic zones.
These are however among the approaches Ho burrows into as he shapes out the depth and breadth of his muse on Songs Of Love And Decay. It’s marked by the plain impression of his manufacturing, perfected over a decades-deep profession on the bleeding fringe of machine music. At instances the album celebrates the addictive thrust of the dancefloor, whereas elsewhere it relishes the stress of suspended animation. All through, the gritty veneer binds collectively this achieved, uncompromising physique of labor as each a fierce creative assertion and a loving tribute to Mendez — an artist who equally embodied the darker aspect of the dance.
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Songs of Love and Decay Tracklisting –
01. A Shallow Lake
02. Crawling
03. England Heretic
04. Love And Decay
05. Demise Cult
06. Vessel Of Pores and skin
07. Evening Fall
08. Pacific Island Kill
09. Misplaced Gods
10. Prisoner
11. Sacred Sacrifice
12. Ghost
13. Non Place
14. The Occult Physique
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