Gothic female vocals are something that are not that compelling to me at least (of course there's always exceptions). And that's the reason why Collide is not waking up any true feelings in me. A male/female duo consisting of Statik and kaRIN (even the names are little stupid as so often with gothic stuff). Their sound is quite nice, but still this ambient incluenced synthpop is not hot enough.
Born early 90s, they have released already eight albums (couple of those are remixes though), so they do know what to do in the studio. You can clearly hear that also while listening at least their newer stuff. Older material is actually little bit harder, and sounds even better compared to their more ambient sound. BTW, they have been tagged also as darkwave at least with their older albums.
They definately must have some real following. Unfortunately I won't join that movement (at least not yet). Here's a bit more mellow track from their 2003 released Some Kind of Strange album.
Some links:
http://www.collide.net
http://www.myspace.com/collide
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collide_%28band%29
http://www.last.fm/music/collide
http://open.spotify.com/artist/2ybEnEKYd8hw5Mag7uieQa
Monday, December 13, 2010
#032 - Cobalt 60
Front 242 is one of the better known names in industrial genre. They could even given a "legend" tag. Cobalt 60 has close linkage to this group. Formed by Front 242 vocalist Jean-Luc De Meyer and machines handled by Dominique Lallement, they released two albums at the end of the 90s.
Named after a radioactive isotope of cobalt, Cobalt 60 was a little bit different group compared to other contemporary acts, since they used quitars - even though that is really common nowadays in industrial music also. Overall their sound is quite bombastic. De Meyer sounds really "german" with his commanding vocals and Lallement's "machines" produce really classical industrial sounds to back him up. Also lots of symphonic elements are combined into their sound.
Cobalt 60 is really surprising and interesting act. Check them out. Here's the opening track of their debut album Elemental released 1996.
Some links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_60_%28band%29
http://www.last.fm/music/cobalt+60
http://open.spotify.com/artist/766rOEGuh3SJNXQyjjQkSv
Named after a radioactive isotope of cobalt, Cobalt 60 was a little bit different group compared to other contemporary acts, since they used quitars - even though that is really common nowadays in industrial music also. Overall their sound is quite bombastic. De Meyer sounds really "german" with his commanding vocals and Lallement's "machines" produce really classical industrial sounds to back him up. Also lots of symphonic elements are combined into their sound.
Cobalt 60 is really surprising and interesting act. Check them out. Here's the opening track of their debut album Elemental released 1996.
Some links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_60_%28band%29
http://www.last.fm/music/cobalt+60
http://open.spotify.com/artist/766rOEGuh3SJNXQyjjQkSv
#031 - Clan of Xymox
Darkwave is again one of the genres names, that I haven't "used" before. OK, it's quite obvious what that should be and I'd say that this is again "just another genre among the millions of others". Clan of Xymox has been linked to this darkwave movement, which started already late 70s. If it sounds like post-punk, looks like post-punk, feels like post-punk, why it must be called darkwave? Who knows!
Clan of Xymox combines quite nicely some industrial elements to their sound. But nothing totally new can be found here. But anyway they've been in front of the movement, since starting already early 80s. Long history already behind them, but they are still alive and kicking (and actually quite hard even, if you listen their latest In Love We Trust album from 2009).
I've heard their name before, but wasn't familiar with their sound at all. Little bit too much 80s here for my taste, but nice and easy sound anyway. Here's a nice sample from their latest effort.
Some links:
http://www.clanofxymox.com
http://www.myspace.com/clanofxymox
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_of_Xymox
http://www.last.fm/music/Clan+of+Xymox
http://open.spotify.com/artist/1wHmR7I0UlF58WFQexCPha
Clan of Xymox combines quite nicely some industrial elements to their sound. But nothing totally new can be found here. But anyway they've been in front of the movement, since starting already early 80s. Long history already behind them, but they are still alive and kicking (and actually quite hard even, if you listen their latest In Love We Trust album from 2009).
I've heard their name before, but wasn't familiar with their sound at all. Little bit too much 80s here for my taste, but nice and easy sound anyway. Here's a nice sample from their latest effort.
Some links:
http://www.clanofxymox.com
http://www.myspace.com/clanofxymox
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_of_Xymox
http://www.last.fm/music/Clan+of+Xymox
http://open.spotify.com/artist/1wHmR7I0UlF58WFQexCPha
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