Industrial Town/Gotham City/Machine Planet
I could leave it at that but I want to talk about the tracks as well:
26. I want to make nice with Industrial Music cause I never really gave it a chance. So if course I found an Industrial/EBM band with Jeff Mills in it and posted that. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that Tony S. Rock reissues the back catalog along with any new Final Cut music. This EP deserves a better fate than dirty torrent obscurity. On the plus side, no matter what happens, he owns the rights to his music I gander. He's an independent and that's a great thing I find as I wander the net searching for music from the past. If the artist stayed independent, to this day they are just that. You can get a lot of these great songs on demand as an MP3 or a Wave. Right now.
27. ...and “System” with it's bubbling, yet strict and disciplined, synth line sounds a bit like an EBM crossover. That is until the major chord riff with the Electro timbales kicks in.
28. This is pretty much expalins itself. Enjoy it while it's happening!!! I do want to thank Miami and UK Electro for getting together and having a baby.
29. “Yellow Smiley offers me X as if he's drinking 7UP.” What? Prince is raving? And he disapproves? Contrasting the naysay, someone had the smarts to enlist William Orbit and S'Express's Mark Moore, who were at the top of their game, for the remix. They made this the most cybertech creation in his royal badness's cannon. For proof of that claim check the “oh” that starts at around the 3 minute mark.
30. My sister walked out of Robocop. And who can blame her? It's not downbeat or a drag, but boy is it violent. and then cynical as all hell on top of that. I was blown away by the music trapped in this club scene and a bit obsessed with the fine print on the credits. No OST appearance, though. PTP's release “Rubber Glove Seduction” did make the rounds...but I longed for a single with “Show Me Your Spine” and an instrumental on the flip. Verhoven...his music advisor?...Jorgenson?..all of them?...had their finger on the pulse. It was one of those moments of youth where I thought, "Something is out there."
31. This Gotham X track underlines the fact that there was a whole Damn Batman Dance Craze, before and after the 1989 movie. Even if this track is DC related in name only. It is “dark,”...a word I am fascinated by and can't quite define. The diva wail herein is the seemingly generic, “Do you want me/Do you need me?” But the singer is so unaffected about the whole affair. That's “Dark” in my book.
32. This one is just a shout out to hip-hop and graffitti(Futura 2000's!) which get's put through the ringer every so often. Most recently-cough cough-at a major museum I went to in LA. This is how I like to envision the original wave of hip hop...with purple solarized video and with an Excorcist sample. Everything you see here is really the tip of the iceberg. And the the underwater part isn't surrounded by sharks.
33. Redshift's no-bullshit Electro track has a rusty flange effect on the high hat that gives it a metallic edge. And then it beeps and shuffles.
34. J. Saul Kane. A name worth google-ing, discog-ing, and reading the fine print for. I can't heap enough praise upon the guy. This one's some sort of promo associated with the Trance Europe Express series. Remember those?
35. Machine Planet. I had to succumb to Dynamix II one more time. They worked on the Borg track. And we come full circle. They kept their music independent and you can buy it right there on the link below.
...Ok I got that off my chest. Whew. Now I'm going to take a bubble bath and write some haiku. The next couple of blog-clusters will most likely be wordless.
