Eye For An Eye Electronic & Dance 3 Artikel

Intense drum arrangements, distorted bass lines and warm synth melodies mark the aesthetic of Foreign's debut EP on Eye For An Eye Recordings. Unlike the producer's previous techno-oriented releases on Cologne based BAROC, 'Redemption' reveals a punk approach regarding his ways of crafting music. From the non-conformist 'Ignorance Amongst Us', to the hopeful 'Hope' theme, 'Redemption' is a non-spoken manifest to a society on the verge of collapse.

Pedro Abrantes and Valdemar Pereira's intense and cold approach in the next release of E.F.A.E. would fit perfectly as the soundtrack to David Cronenberg's film Crash (1997), guiding the listener through a world of perversion and obsession. A raw experience, usually of violence, where human nature is expressed through old rhythm boxes and cheap guitar pedals, sounding dirty, fuzzy, with an healthy disregard for rules of fidelity or even functionality. Gam / Coletivo Vandalismo emerges like a sonic terrorist cell, out to implode traditional notions of "dance music" infusing a sense of dread and menace.

Produced somewhere between a basement in Brussels and an attic in the outskirts of Paris, back when tape reel to reels, primitive rhythm boxes and analogue synths still carried a vague promise of the future, this music translated a certain atomic paranoia fuelled by the cold war industry. Lo-fi music, abrasive, high pressure, dense, clipped to the max, like it was intended to punish any woofer that gets between it and the air.