#007 - Amduscia

I have to admit I don't know that many Mexican bands. Lot of pop stuff is from Mexico, but these other genres are more or less unknown here at least. But there seem to be at least one aggrotech artist, Amduscia is from Mexico City. They are signed on the same labels than the other aggrotech bands so far - German Out of Line and American Metropolis Records.

Amduscia is again duo, run by Polo Amduscia (vocals, lyrics, sampling) and Edgar Amduscia (synth programming, sampling, mixing). Or are they actually trio, hmmm... In many place there are listed only these two guys, but in their picture there's a third guy. Metropolis Records pages mention one extra name, Raul. So I assume they are then trio anyway.

What about music. To put it out shortly: too trance for me. This reminds me too much about discos. I understand the concept though, but this is not for me. I don't hate this, but it's just one notch too far right (or left, who knows). Check out for example this Impulso Biomecanico taken from taken from their 2006 released From Abuse to Apostasy.










Some links:
http://www.amduscia.de
http://www.myspace.com/amduscia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amduscia
http://www.last.fm/music/Amduscia
http://open.spotify.com/artist/3nasc5I5Nmzq7KgKENcetM

#006 - Agonoize

This alphabetical list seem to be interesting since now when first six is checked I've had two industrial black metal bands, two Belgian EBM due and now I got second aggrotech artist in row. German Agonoize is somewhat familiar to me earlier. I have that Evil Gets an Upgrade v2.0 EP from 2005, but to be honest I haven't even looked that CD in years.

Duo format seem to be quite common in here. Agonoize was also originally duo, but they recruited vocalist quite soon. Agonoize has already quite long back catalogue even though they are not even 10 years old. Of course those "smaller releases" increase the catalogue easily, but still they have done quite a lot of stuff in last couple of years.

The newer stuff sounds really interesting. Some of the songs have german lyrics, which of course mean nothing to me, but I've never had that much interest on the lyrics (of course some exceptions exist). The sound of the vocalist is much more important to me. And Chris L, the vocalist of Agonoize, handles that area really nicely. Aggressive and commanding interpretation is pleasure to listen.

Here's a quite nice fan video of A Hellgate: London video game featuring Agonoizes song Glaubenskrieger taken from their 2006 released EP Ultraviolent Six.


Some links:
http://www.agonoize.de
http://www.myspace.com/agonoize
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agonoize
http://www.last.fm/music/Agonoize
http://open.spotify.com/artist/76gauxdapMkInaQG5fl2Xv

#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