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Artist: KENJI
SIRATORI & GOLDEN AGE
Album: Psychotronic
Year: 2007
‘Kenji Siratori, a Japanese cyberpunk writer, and Golden
Age, a Moscow-based synthetic metal band have united
their artistic forces in 2006 and now are ready to
deliver their debut album "Psychotronic" - a unique
mixture of experimental, uncompromising, progressive,
intense prose and avant-garde, provocative, cyber-industrial
rhythm.’ According to the bio on their MySpace page we
should expect something extraordinairy over here.
Already known with the gentle music of Golden Age this
biography, blessed with the term “cyberpunk writer”,
caught my attention immidiately.
And the outcome is very surprising to say the least!
This hasn’t much to do with the music of Golden Age, and
neither with the cyberpunk I’m familiar with (Punish
Yourself, Brutalizzed Kids, etc.). In stead. this CD
brings you eleven tracks of easy listening EBM/future
pop music mixed with the preaching vocals of Kenji
Siratori. Between the songs, there’s quite some
variation: the soft danceable beats in songs like ‘Anti-Prologue’,
‘Space’ and ‘Spiral World’ are in contrast with the more
harsh beats on tracks like ‘Strange God’ and ‘Mode’.
Furthermore, we have some interesting key and
programming parts on ‘Corpse City’ and even a very cool
sensitive synth track ‘Orbit’.
‘Psychotronic’ happens to be very experimental indeed,
and fans of many different music styles might find some
relaxing alternative with this project. This CD will
definitely end up in my playlist for my next DJ set.
Very cool and spacey stuff, but not something I would
listen to every day. Extravaganza!
Vote: 80 / 100
Review by: Gerardo |
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01. Anti Prologue
02. Chaosmic
03. Heterogaia
04. Strange God
05. Corpse City, part 1
06. Corpse City, part 2
07. Space
08. Orbit
09. Mode
10. Political Clone
11. Spiral World
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