Author: Vox

5th album by the Italian solo-act. The project not only combines the best electro-synthpop ingredients, but also possesses a big talent for highly catchy melodies, always enhanced by intelligent and evocative lyrics. Christian Ryder once again manages to transport you into an incredibly vivid sonic journey. The intrinsic beauty of this release is already imaginable…

The long, expected return of the Public Domain Resource is finally today a reality. The Italian duo surpasses itself with this new album, conceived with technical rigor and with an extraordinary inventiveness, which demonstrates once again how remarkable are the compositional skills of these two artists. “AntiGravity” is sonic rationalization combined with melodicity, an intriguing,…

di Alberto Tosi | 24 Febbraio 2018 | Very Industrial People, “V.I.P.”, la sesta fatica in studio dei TourdeForce è in dirittura d’arrivo. Il video del singolo è già disponibile online, mentre l’uscita del disco è prevista per il 2 di Marzo. Christian Ryder, frontman del gruppo, ci racconta in anteprima cosa aspettarci dai suoi V.I.P.…

Melodic freshness, elegance and a remarkable polarizing ability, are the peculiarities that have always distinguished the synthpopish / EBM songwriting of the Swedish duo-project Mechatronic, who, after further compositive refinements, have now reached their fourth album, “Still Life”, a release full of preciosity that included fourteen prospectively impeccable songs. Music for the new generations, clean,…

by Jens Atterstrand | Jan. 17, 2018 | A competent collection of electronic pop songs. Stockholm-based Johan Hansson, who is probably best known for his future pop project Unitary, have released “Unhealing”, the sequel to “Dayblind” the album that back in 2016 introduced us to his latest creation We the North. However melancholic music works best during the year’s darker and…

by Inferno Sound Diaries | Jan. 15, 2018 | Johan Hansson (previously involved with Unitary and Cyanide) unleashed the second full length of his newest project We The North. The in 2016 released debut work “Dayblind” revealed an interesting mix between electro-pop and EBM. “Unhealing” moves on there where the previous album stopped. You get…

Exploring the musical universe of the Scandinavian solo-act We The North means diving into a technologically advanced and extraordinarily interactive sound, able to arouse emotions and to dialogue with the senses. The EP “Endemic” and the album “Dayblind”, both dating back to 2016, have demonstrated the great technical and executive ability of Johan Hansson, gaining…

by Inferno Sound Diaries | September 26, 2017 | German duo Robert Grolms – Niko Kötzsch are active under the Gimme Shelter moniker for a couple of years now. They signed to Space Race Records and have released 2 albums so far. The band doesn’t label their sound as any particular genre, but their audience…

by Inferno Sound Diaries | Sep 14, 2017 Two years after their successful debut album “Warnemünde” the German Gimme Shelter strikes back with a new opus. This band remains driven by the creative force of electro-pop music with some extra, powerful EBM elements on top. The solid bass lines have been joined by danceable kicks…

by Sandra M. Heinzelmann | 5 September 2017 | SSM – How did you work on “panic in slow motion”? Could you describe the process? It’s been a long process making the album. It’s pretty easy for me to write songs, but the production part took some time. I couldn’t figure out how the established…

Dead Man Recovering’s style has the rare ability to adapt perfectly and effortlessly to both easy and demanding listening. The Danish solo-act played by Kenneth Steen Larsen offers an unique musicality that is unequivocally inspired by the classic 80’s electro-synthpopish reminiscences modernized by a personal avant-garde touch, with charming and suggestive melodies, always planned to…

To all electro fans of the planet Earth: very attention please! The sound of the German duo act Gimme Shelter is a perfect, balanced combination of the best synthpop / electropop sonorities of Camouflage and Elegant Machinery, distinguished by a touch of strong personality. The result of this style is imprinted in every song of…

Stéphane Froidcoeur  Feb 21, 2017 | Behind We The North is hiding a solo-project set up and driven by Johan Hansson who you should know from his involvement in Unitary (signed on Infacted) and Cyanide (mainly active during the early millennium years). After the promising debut EP “Endemic” we now welcome the official debut album.…

by Jens Atterstrand | 4 november 2016 | Sharp and neat synthpop opens strongly Unitary-acquaintance Johan Hansson, who previously also has released music under the moniker Cyanide, now sets his sights on modern synthpop with the new project We the North’s first full length album “Dayblind”. The album follows up the EP “Endemic” which was…

by Uwe Marx | November 2016 | SSM – So, We The North, is your only (main) band right now? First of all – thank you for giving the opportunity to answer some questions of yours, sir! The releases of Dayblind and Endemic keep me busy lately but I actually have some new material in…

Cold emotions, melodic perfection, electronic flows of high-class: these are the main elements that characterize the style of We The North, the Swedish solo-act of Johan Hansson, aka Unitary and Cyanide. After the recent success of the EP “Endemic” the artist returns with his debut-album “Dayblind” to conquer definitively us with its electro-noir modulations aesthetically…

Stéphane Froidcoeur Oct 7, 2016 | Space Race Records again seems to have found a new promising band active in the wider electro-pop fields. Hailing from Scandinavia and set up as a solo-project by Johan Hansson, the artist describes his music as ‘Nordic Noir’. “Endemic” is the first official release featuring 4 songs and 4…

Benjamin Kristiansen   2016-09-18 | We The North är ett nytt projekt där Johan Hansson från Unitary är inblandad. Projektet benämner sin musik som ”nordic noir” och blandar nytt och gammalt till något hoppfullt melankoliskt inspirerat av de mörka klimatet i Skandinavien. Musiken är riktigt bra på Endemic, och visst andas det något Skandinaviskt över den.…

19.07.2016 | Markus Schmitz We The North sind ein junges Projekt von Johan Hansson, und wurden vom Label ziemlich überschwänglich angekündigt. In Stockholm beheimatet, macht sich Herr Hansson daran, seine Version von modernem, kühlem Electropop zu verbreiten. Beim Opener „Lost Inside“ stockt mir kurz der Atem. Was ist das bitte für eine Gesangsstimme? Die ersten…

Something truly exceptional is finally happening in the global electro scene: We The North has arrived, a qualitatively superior project that represents one of the best synthpopish revelations of this year. Their refinement is discernable from the first listen, thanks to electronically geometric structures, so emotionally intense, played with extreme technical accuracy and attention for…

by Stéphane Froidcoeur | April 25, 2016 | Dio<X>ide is a brand-new Italian project set up by 2 veterans of the scene. This is the meeting between Andrew Lagowski and Andrea Bellucci – aka Red Sector A. Lagowski got involved in numerous projects and collaboration works while Andrea Bellucci got some fame and recognition with…

Published by Alessandro Violante on March 14, 2016 One in a thousand succeeds in doing it! Dioxide‘s debut, Specular Mirrors, is an interesting clearly IDM / braindance album and is the product of a new italian act formed by the well known musicians Andrew Lagowski and Andrea Bellucci, that here widely demonstrate how the intelligent…

Andrea Bellucci and Andrew Lagowski are two inspired alchemists of electronic sound: they have developed over the years an highly sophisticated, intelligent and futuristic musical perception, constantly seeking a final balance between compositional perfection and an effective autonomous music dynamism, giving to their songs an artificial communicative energy. Through the project Dioxide the two protagonists…

Ruben Saey | 15/01/2016 | Again Mexico sends its sons. Of course, there is Hocico, which is the big name in the electro scene, but now we are introduced to the Mexican electro trio Para Normal. After Evidence Is Everything, these guys present their second album The Cold Room. Their purpose is quite clear: to…

Stéphane Froidcoeur Dec 29, 2015 | Content: Three years ago EK Product released the “Recoding” album by Halo Effect. The new work got released by the somewhat more pop-orientated sub-division Space Race Records. The Italian formation brings us 16 new songs, which are totally body-pop minded. I was not a huge fan of the previous…

Verfasst am 27. Dezember  2015 von Krähenkönig Riccardo | Halo Effect, ein Vierer aus Rom, begann im Herbst 2001 dank der Vereinigung der verschiedenen musikalischen Erfahrungen. Die Atmosphäre der Musik reicht von Synthpop über EBM bis hin zum Darkwave, die musikalischen Erfahrungen hört man deutlich heraus. Die intensive Live-Aktivität hat dazu geführt, in verschiedenen Teilen…

Luego del recientemente lanzamiento de “Life is perfect”, nueva producción de la banda italiana Halo Effects, Disturbia Magazine se puso en contacto con ellos y logró una entrevista exclusiva, donde conversamos de todo un poco. Aquí la entrevista: DIS: ¿Cómo estan chicos?. H.E: Bien gracias DIS: Una de rigor, ¿Quiénes conforman la banda?, ¿La formación sigue…

Review by Don Waugh Esq There’s something in the water over at Space Race Records. No, seriously. Earlier this year, I reviewed Public Domain Resource’s American labelmates, Retrogramme, and noted how that band had surprised me with a wonderful album. And now, here come the Italians. Pietro Oliveri founded PDR in 2012, joined by Ugo…

Usually, when we think about post-industrial mexican music, the first artists we think about are Hocico and Amduscia, ignoring the fact that who is in the underground, emerging on an important label such as Space Race Records, twin label of the more than just well-known italian-based EKP records, can often hide precious gems, like this…

After having made crazy thousands international estimators of technological music scene by their previous album “Evidence Is Everything”, the Mexicans Para Normal add another sensational masterpiece to their discography with the new full-length entitled “The Cold Room“, strongly sure to get even higher awards in terms of artistic prestige, increasing the number of fans. Eleven…

The Roman formation Halo Effect, by far among the most quotable and promising ones of the international electronic scene, it officially proclaimed as operating band since 2001 with the following line-up: John Andrew Peverieri (vox / lyrics / musics), Alessandro Polinori (second vox / keys / lyrics / musics), Federico Rosi (keys / musics) and…

Gli Halo Effect, che i nostri lettori hanno già incontrato su queste pagine, in ultimo in occasione del loro album del 2009 “The Fourth Zone” hanno rilasciato di recente il loro nuovo lavoro Life is Perfect. La band romana non ha quindi bisogno di presentazione, dal momento che la sua attività è iniziata fin dal…

I romani Halo Effect tornano sulla scena con un nuovo album dopo tre anni dall’ultimo Recoding uscito per la EK Product. Life Is Perfect segna il passaggio alla label sorella Space Race Records, quest’ultima più legata a produzioni electro moderne e di impostazione melodica, con mai celati influssi synth pop. Ben sedici brani la maggior…

Washington DC’s Retrogramme return with their latest full-length studio album and follow up to 2012’s ‘For Our Dearly Departed’. The band’s pleasing and original blend of synthpop, idm and darkwave has always had a lot of potential to offer and has developed a strong buzz that they now look to capitalise on with ‘Feed’. The…

Considered as one of the best Italian technological-projects, Halo Effect possess the rare ability to involve listening through a portentous combination among futurepop, electropop, EBM and darkwave, characterized by increasing rhythms and ‘very-catchy’ / super-danceable harmonies. Reached by now a well-established soundness built since the year 2001, the band publish its fourth album entitled “Life…

A crazy mix of relatively catchy compositions. Electropop with a touch of triphop, electrorap, danceable electro, vocoderfilled futurepop and electro rock. Sounds messy? It is. But not in the sprawling and negative sense. Reaching all the way in today’s hitfocused popscene is as everyone knows no easy task. Retrogramme’s arsenal of different experiments do not…

Ad un anno e mezzo dal valido album d’esordio “Dead Surface” tornano i PDR, duo bergamasco di recente formazione ma con alle spalle un background che affonda negli anni ’80. Quel suono retrò in bilico fra synthpop ed EBM anni ’80/’90 apprezzato nel debut si colora oggi di un’intensità tutta nuova: i ritmi sono più…

Tornano i Klonavenus sotto la bandiera del dark-electro, ancora una volta con il marchio Space Race Records. Il duo romano – Chemnitz e Saffio – si attiene alla formula scelta a suo tempo e la porta avanti perfezionandola e limandola, proponendo soprattutto suoni più puliti e curati, grazie anche alla produzione ineccepibile e all’esperienza ormai…

Through the second album titled “Six Years”, the Bergamo Public Domain Resource have made a subsequent, fundamental progress in stylistic advancing and, then, in the definitive consolidation of their fame. The project was distinguished already during 2013 – the year in which it officially originated the discographic career of this talented power duo – as…

Hailing from Washington, D.C., the band Retrogramme may be one of the best kept secrets in American darkwave, but with the release of their third full length, that may soon change. Do a quick Google on the band, and you’ll see the words synthpop, IDM, darkwave, and even electrogoth bandied about to describe the wondrous…

The Italian duo of Public Domain Resource return with their sophomore offering in the form of ‘Six Years’. Formed in 2012, their début album, last year’s ‘Dead Surface’, was a promising one that comprised of a complex mix of 80s synthpop with 90s ebm that was both dance-friendly and intelligent in its construction. The band’s…

Tornano i Public Domain Resource, ovvero Ugo Crescini e Pietro Oliveri, con la loro synth-wave leggera e piacevole che avevamo già sperimentato con il debut album Dead Surface del 2013. Con questo Six years i due continuano il discorso intrapreso a suo tempo ma, nel mantenersi in linea con le loro preferenze stilistiche, mostrano maturità…

Mastodontico. Il nuovo album del duo bergamasco Public domain resource, Six years, rappresenta lo sforzo di condensare in quattordici brani un sound electro industrial piuttosto complesso e variegato, contraddistinto da una notevole ricchezza e complessità di soluzioni melodico-ritmiche, in cui le vocals di Ugo Crescini rappresentano solo un elemento aggiuntivo, per quanto gradevole e importante,…