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Artist: VIGILANTE
Album: Juicio Final
Year: 2006
Vigilante is one of the very few bands from Latin
America that I follow with very special interest since I
heard their debut promo CD. Their debut album ‘The
Heroes Code’ was a damn killer one and is still featured
a lot in my CD player. An European tour, built around
their show at Wave Gothik Treffen followed, and they
started to work on their follow-up record too. In the
meantime, Vigilante released a mini-CD named ‘Juicio
Final’ which features three Spanish versions of songs of
‘The Heroes Code’, one new song and five remixes.
The Spanish versions of ‘The Other Side’, ‘One Good
Reason’ and ‘Survive’ are musically almost exactly the
same as the English versions, only the lyrics are
different. This sounds a little weird in the beginning,
but you’ll get used to it in the end. In my opinion, it
is a pity that Vigilante didn’t decide to do some more
new sampling on the songs, because like the way it is
now these songs don’t really bring anything new. A song
that does bring something new is ‘Justice’, which can be
called a teaser for the forthcoming full-lenght. This is
a very powerful EBM track combined with industrial
guitarwork. The song is very well danceable and, like
every Vigilante song, the lyrics try to spread a certain
message around the topic ‘Justice’, not by coincidence
the name of this track indeed.
For the remixes, Vigilante managed to get some real
pro’s. The remix done by Funker Vogt is one of the major
ones I’ve heard this year. The remix sounds total
different than the actual song, with complete different
electronics and a different beat. It’s very danceable
and catchy, and will guarantee dancing people in goth
clubs. The remix by ‘Z Prochek’ is more harsh, mixing
the styles of Suicide Commando and Combichrist with some
pure EBM. This song has catchy beats too. The Chiasm
remix of ‘Survive’ is the first one that seemed
influenced by the actual song. The guitar parts are
surprisingly well mixed through eachother, and the
electronic sampling turned out to be a good spine for
this remix. The Amateur God of ‘Before’ is my less
favourite of the album. While the original song featured
beautiful keyboard parts, this song is drowning in
chaotic and unrhytmic beats which kind of murders the
original, killer track. The Obszon Geschopf remix of
‘The Other Side’ started already very hopeful, with the
original intro slightly mixed with (I guess) some home
made stuff. The beat that comes afterwards is very
powerful, and although this remix is over six minutes
long, it never gets bored. Very well done!
In the end, this mini-CD turned out to be a nice item
for the people who already liked the debut album of
Vigilante. It could be a nice item for people who want
to discover this band too, although I would advice them
to try the debut album first. If you want to know why,
just read this review all over again.
Vote: 80 / 100
Review by: Gerardo |
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01. Juicio Final (the
other side/spanish
version)
02. Resistir (one good
reason/spanish version)
03. Sangrar
(suvive/spanish version)
04. Justice (advance
2006/a war of ideas)
05. The Other Side
(funker vogt remix)
06. One Good Reason (z
prochek remix)
07. Survive (chiasm
remix)
08. Before (amateur god
remix)
09. The Other Side
(obszon geschopf remix) |
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