Explicitly devoted to Juan Mendez, whose affect runs deep on this seductively sinister nook of underground, unbiased digital music, Dekmantel UFO Collection continues its resurgent type with a brand new album of bruising, industrial wave and techno from Damaged English Membership, Songs of Love and Decay.
A Shallow Lake, Prisoner, and Night time Fall singles are out at the moment giving a preview of the album out March twenty first. Pre-order the album and pay attention to the tracks HERE.
UK techno mainstay Oliver Ho debuted his darkish and brooding alias greater than 10 years in the past with a launch on Jealous God below the steering of the late, nice Juan Mendez (Silent Servant). These aware of Ho’s fearsome and infrequently brutal futurist early EPs on Blueprint, Drumcode, Floor and Meta will pay attention to his means to inject a darkish narrative into purposeful electronics. With Damaged English Membership, he delivers monotone vocals and shards of reside instrumentation over slamming beats and bleak synths. The blank-stared, pin-point-focused electronics and layers of noise show post-punk influences, dragging collectively industrial experimentation and pitch-black membership techno. His debut on Jealous God was adopted by a number of releases on Veronica Vasicka’s Cititrax (one cut up with Silent Servant). Following these first defining musical statements there got here a string of 4 albums on Ron Morelli’s Lies data, exploring metallic, warehouse techno and synth-wave noise, probably the most distinguished of which was the White Rats trilogy. This three-album saga explores concepts of violence and the darkish elements of human behaviour, each private and political.
Damaged English Membership just isn’t solely a manufacturing alias for Oliver but in addition a dynamic reside present, that encompasses reside vocals and digital drum percussion, performing everywhere in the world in golf equipment, reside venues and artwork galleries. Latest highlights embrace Berlin Atonal, Cloth, Tresor, and Dekmantel Competition. Oliver continues to develop the mission with a imaginative and prescient that units a tone of each atmospheric cinematic suspense and electric-charged uncooked techno.
Throughout the overarching aesthetic of the Damaged English Membership sound, Ho finds the liberty to ship a full spectrum album as various as it’s constant. You possibly can sense the shadow of his roots in 90s tribal techno punching by way of on Crawling and Demise Cult, whereas England Heretic leans on thick swathes of analogue synthesis indebted to Giallo soundtracks and the ever-compelling lure of 80s synthwave. In its grinding layers of distortion and dubbed out vocals Vessel Of Pores and skin speaks extra to the post-punk influences which have set Damaged English Membership aside because the outset. This isn’t a purely retro-fetishist expedition, although — Pacific Island Kill and Misplaced Gods exude stark modernism of their sharply-angled sequences and dramatic sound design, shifting past the purposeful calls for of 4/4 dance music to succeed in to extra cinematic zones.
These are however a few of the approaches Ho burrows into as he shapes out the depth and breadth of his muse on Songs Of Love And Decay. It’s marked by the plain affect of his manufacturing, perfected over a decades-deep profession on the bleeding fringe of machine music. At instances the album celebrates the addictive thrust of the dancefloor, whereas elsewhere it relishes the strain of suspended animation. All through, the gritty veneer binds collectively this achieved, uncompromising physique of labor as each a fierce inventive assertion and a loving tribute to Mendez — an artist who equally embodied the darker aspect of the dance.
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Songs of Love and Decay Tracklisting –
01. A Shallow Lake
02. Crawling
03. England Heretic
04. Love And Decay
05. Demise Cult
06. Vessel Of Pores and skin
07. Night time Fall
08. Pacific Island Kill
09. Misplaced Gods
10. Prisoner
11. Sacred Sacrifice
12. Ghost
13. Non Place
14. The Occult Physique
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