Blatant Propaganda 'Zine & CD:
Various Artists :::
"Chain DLK Magazine and CD compilation # 7".
electro-industrial darkwave synthpop ambient electronics.
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CHAIN DLK is a fabulous magazine produced in Italy (though written in English), that is primarily dedicated to the 'darker', more ominous side of electronic musi. In other words, it features industrial, darkwave, dark ambient etc. It is very well produced and full to the hilt with interesting interviews, feature articles, reviews, occasional socio-political issues & more. It has tonnes and tonnes of work put into it and it shows.
2 issues of this magazine and the accompanying 75 minute CD compilations are available from Blatant Propaganda. Below is a detailed review of issue #6:
The Magazine: 55 A4 pages, 8 in full colour, features detailed interviews and articles on Wumpscut, Fields of the Nephilim, Sweet William, Muslimgauze, Sequential, Paradigm, La Vogue, Voltaic, Theatrum chemicum, Theatre of Loneliness, Biotape Art Organsation, Staalplaat Records, Van Richter Records, Maurizio Bianchi, Italian Electronic Music History Part 3, 300 plus reviews and lots more!
1. Wumpscut - "flucht" a very characteristic 4/4 dancefloor heavy-industrial-teknoid piece from this well-known industrial project.
2. Noxious Emotion - "Integral (Tweek mix)" robotic e.b.m. electro. If you dig late80s-early90s Front Line Assembly, you'll love this.
3. Mimetic Fields - "Overture (remixture)" slow and infectious burbling electro instrumental. love it. see full CD review this issue.
4. Matrix - "give (direct injection mix)" clomping & biting acid-electro-industrial with overdriven vox. Skinny Puppy fans will dig it.
5. EYE - "The Vivisector - All the People Killed (dlk mix)" demo version of this new reworked version of the old 1995-composed song. Heavy metal Ministry guitars, Autechre'ish noises, jungle-industrial-club beats, distorted vox (EYE's return to distortion-vocals after 3 years), plus tonnes of info-samples on why vivisection (animal research) is unscientific, leads medicine astray but useful for creating the illusion of "safety" for drugs, medical procedures etc.
6. TV Noise - "Vortex" a trance-like bubbling electro-industrial piece, gruff male vocals, and very masochistic bleak lyrics.
7. Devotion - "Be Careful" hard-edged synth-pop like a mix between Depeche Mode & NIN.
8. DES & T.A.C. - "Infected" Des supplies seductive female & sexually straightforward, almost very explicit, lyrics over some grooving electro music care of Trans Atlantic Crush, love those acid-bass-synth lines.
9. Trans Atlantic Crush (T.A.C.) - "Lies" House grooves with New Romantic male vocals and just little dash of NIN. Reminds me of the Swains and other old Kk Records acts.
10. Dream Sequence - "0096" Mellow transient sounds, airy jungle beats, makes for a very swaying dreamy instrumental piece.
11. Zoar - "Wisteria" ambient instrumental, like Black Lung's mellow beat-less pieces, but more adventurous, and other acts from Dorobo Records. Actually it reminds me of Brian Eno's "Nerve Net" album a lot too.
12. Maureen Evans-Hansen - "Out of the Blue" An absolutely wonderful atmospheric ambient piece. Takes you around the universe & back.
13. Hi Tom - "to catch a T" quirky electro-noise-scapes, like something you'd hear from a graduate presentation of a modern music school. Very Autechre yet quainter.
14. TH26 - "Mech Pio" white-noisescapes, birdlike factory sounds and muffled tribal beats.
15. Erasermen - "Moanin'" berserk avant-garde jazz, transient noises fly in and out like those of a theatre soundtrack. Very cool!
16. Circus Joy - "Improvviso Vivo" live improvised industrial noise jam.
17. :Zero - "Giochiamo a un Gioco" punk industrial guitars, stomping techno beats and male Italian rock-pop vocals. Makes you wanna slap your thighs and shout "yee-haa!"
18. Cliffs & Bridges - "Lower end your life" electronica-indie-pop song. Somewhat like various 4AD & other mellow-obscure British acts.
19. Gerstein - "Dagon" a dark brooding heavily reverbed ambient soundscape.
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