#005 - Aesthetic Perfection

Aggrotech, now here's a genre that I've never even heard. But in practise I've actually listened some of these bands, for example Agonoize, Combichrist, Funker Vogt and Suicide Commando are familiar names. Wikipedia says the following about this genre: "Aggrotech (also known as hellektro or Terror EBM) is an evolution of electro-industrial and dark electro with a strong influence of techno that first surfaced in the mid-1990s. Its sound is typified by harsh song structures, aggressive beats and lyrics of a militant, pessimistic or explicit nature. Typically, the vocals are distorted and pitch-shifted to sound hoarse, harsh and synthetic."

Sound pretty good to me. This is more or less the kinda stuff I mostly like. And I have to say that this Aesthetic Perfection sound really good. Aesthetic Perfection is quite new name in this scene. Brainchild of American Daniel Graves has released two albums, both of those are available in Spotify. There's so many things in right place in his music, at least to my ears. I seem to have some sort of "dance perversion" at lesat. But since I've no interest on the poppier side of the dance scene, this seem to be just the right kind of combination of harsness and electro. Also that pessimistic view to the world must have something to do with this enthusiasm. Anyway I'm from Finland, where sun is not that common visitor at least winter time.

Here's the official video of The Great Depression taken from the second album A Violent Emotion.


Some links:
http://www.aesthetic-perfection.net
http://www.myspace.com/closetohuman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesthetic_Perfection
http://www.last.fm/music/Aesthetic%2520Perfection
http://open.spotify.com/artist/1Jgp0YCPHCJx5XD7nlfGVN