Released all the way back in October of 2009, it was about time I got around to writing a review of Komor Kommando’s incendiary Das EP. Komor Kommando is Sebastian R. Komor’s one-man assault on the dance floor after successful projects as sound designer and songwriter for acts such as Zombie Girl and Icon of Coil. Armed to the teeth the albums opening track Love Your Neighbour begins relatively restrained, hinting Software Production Engineer Job Description tantalisingly at the storm of dance-laden chaos and noise yet to come. I would suggest not playing this on your MP3 player, once the storm breaks, the desire to jack the tracks up to volumes approaching those that will leave you crippled with server and lasting hearing damage is extremely potent. As the opening track suggests, this album should be played at high volume, preferably in a residential area!
Following up on Love Your Neighbour is the beat driven sample heavy State Of Destruction. Sounding every bit as menacing as the title suggests, wailing and stuttering synthesised sounds, sampled screams, ominous pads and that ever present crash of drums like the insidious march of some dark war-machine, build a wonderfully fractured and psychotic audio experience (something that is more-or-less present throughout the album).
Arpegiation makes everything sound good, undoubtedly a lie but a home truth I will stick to until otherwise irrefutably proven wrong. Whatever the eventual outcome of this future dispute, Triggerfinger uses it to great effect crafting around it a track bound for club-hit status.
The Beat That Goes Ping, Das Onntz, and AntiKrist break away from the rest of the album in terms of the dark militaristic and grimy aesthetic. These are a lighter breed of track, diverging into a more techno branch but just as good as the all the rest. Das Onntz is another likely club track, The Beat That Goes Ping is very cool introducing Branding Competition 2019 – stuffed with catchy samples that will role around in your brain for days – unfortunately you will probably try to recreate these verbally and end up the joke of some very uncool people. The last track wonders off into experimental land via ambient park and comes back titled AntiKrist – a great way to bring the EP to a close.
Komor’s first EP from his solo project is a fantastic start and I eagerly await what comes next. Das EP is great value for money with a strong and varied sound, a must buy for industrial-dance junkies and fans and strongly recommended for everyone else. If you still don’t have it, check Das EP out now.…
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Velvet Acid Christ – The Art of Breaking Apart – Music Review
Many VAC fans are going to or have heard this album and thought, what the hell? I did, but give it a chance; you will discover a great album. What Bryan Erickson has done is blasphemy to some industrial fans, he has created an album that features acoustic instruments – incorporating them into a similar VAC sound we all know and love. If you are a hardcore synth junkie, play it once and be shocked and repulsed! Listen to it again. Even the acoustic hating cyborg at the heart of rabid industrial fans will find something to cherish within this album. The mix of acoustic and electronic tracks including the tracks where both are blended work well without interfering with the flow of the album.
The Art of Breaking Apart opens with a typical VAC dance track Tripped out before tentatively introducing the acoustic element in Vaporised. Definitely one of the strongest tracks on the album, Vaporised follows the tried and true structure of VAC’s EBM/industrial tracks that leads to the simple guitar riff becoming repetitive. Ultimately, Vaporised is a forgettable track. Thankfully, Black Rainbows breaks in a better acoustic track. With a sound reminiscent of the Cure, many older listeners may be struck with nostalgia for earlier days when the scene was more than just a beauty contest.
Phucked Up Preak is a call back to earlier VAC, particularly the track Phucking Preak, with the heavy inclusion of samples taken from the movie “Se7en”. Strangely, for me, this isn’t the highlights of the album. While Phucking Preak is a great track, Large Scale Industry the albums title track is my pick. Down temp, succulent acoustic guitar counter pointed by the calling of its electrified brother, brooding pads, droning eighties inspired bass, melancholic vocals and lyrics brings VACs acoustic direction to a peak.
Though Erikson says, with this album, he isn’t trying to bridge any gaps within the scene, effectively that what this album does, it brings in the old skool goths Industrial Production Index Wiki and the electro floor junkies alike. For those of you who aren’t into industrial or haven’t had the chance to give it a go, this album is a great place to start.
The Art Of Breaking Apart easily makes it into my top albums for 2009.…