MARCO'S TOP ALBUMS OF 2012 - #20 (Part 4 of 23)
What's the sound of a world where the robots have finally staged an uprising and conquered the human race? I guess, what you hear in MODULATE new EP, aptly titled 'Robots', which we find at #20!
Most of you will remember Geoff Lee's band mostly for the dance floor hit "Skullfuck", which literally took the scene by storm in 2007. I will admit that the follow-up album, "Detonation", didn't leave me very impressed: it felt a bit more of the same, even if surely ranked miles above all the crappy-sounding "industrial rave" wannabes that were starting to get high praises around.
With "Robots", Lee is back with a vengeance, delivering a modern, fresh-sounding release that surely leaves you wanting for more and asking for a full length album as soon as possible.
Crowned by amazing remixes, above all those by the hard house legends Lab 4 and the clever re-interpretation by Aesthetic Perfection, we find here the roots of a potential new genre, the so-called Ibiza Industrial that started as a tongue-in-cheek joke online but already proved to have quite the following among the alternative club-goers: the instrumental mix of "Nightmares" could well be its anthem.
Suggested listening: "Robots", "Boombox", "Nightmares (Instrumental Club Mix)", "Dirty Fckn Disco (with Shaun F.)"
Dec 08 2012
Most of you will remember Geoff Lee's band mostly for the dance floor hit "Skullfuck", which literally took the scene by storm in 2007. I will admit that the follow-up album, "Detonation", didn't leave me very impressed: it felt a bit more of the same, even if surely ranked miles above all the crappy-sounding "industrial rave" wannabes that were starting to get high praises around.
With "Robots", Lee is back with a vengeance, delivering a modern, fresh-sounding release that surely leaves you wanting for more and asking for a full length album as soon as possible.
Crowned by amazing remixes, above all those by the hard house legends Lab 4 and the clever re-interpretation by Aesthetic Perfection, we find here the roots of a potential new genre, the so-called Ibiza Industrial that started as a tongue-in-cheek joke online but already proved to have quite the following among the alternative club-goers: the instrumental mix of "Nightmares" could well be its anthem.
Suggested listening: "Robots", "Boombox", "Nightmares (Instrumental Club Mix)", "Dirty Fckn Disco (with Shaun F.)"
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