Monday, August 28, 2006  3:01 pm 

Turn off your mind, relax and kick someone in the face.

Remix albums tend not to be that great an idea in general, more a ‘lets squeeze out the last few drops of cash from the last album’ kind of thing. There were a few of them last year (goodie: Justice, Erol Alkan and Test-Icicles’ Sammy Danger tearing up Death From Above 1979 (who have fucking split, wtf!?) baddie: Bloc Party - lame remixes by lame Four Tet, Ladytron and other assorted fools) but now EBM terrorists Nitzer Ebb join in (the chant) with ‘Body Rework’. Black Strobe, The Hacker and Terrence Fixmer all have a go but don’t generate that much interest, its the Motor dub of ‘Lightning Man’ that stirs the 20JFG kids:

Nitzer Ebb - Lightning Man (Motor Dub)

Motor are a perfect partner to Nitzer Ebb, fully capable of treating a classic EBM track with respect and not just tacking a house beat under it and a delay on the vocals. The general paranoid stomping menace of the original is kept fully intact, but reduce the vocals to snippets of echoed barks and you have a sleak chrome black creature shapelessly shifting throughout the shadows, its form spiking ocassionally as the horns stab outwards. It cruises along the dark streets nicely, but its not until the Darth Vader-on-ecstasy in a pitch-dark dungeon whirling gabba stutterings grind in and the brass section begins to jerk and spazz that it really starts to hit home how fun this all is. Elsewhere the LP features vocodered mishaps stripping ‘Join In The Chant’ of its cyber-industrial evil pulse, so we say stick with Motor, no question.

Next month The Rapture return to the discotheque with a new LP, not enhanced by the Demi-Gods of Everything (DFA), instead slapped and pinched by Ewan Pearson, Paul Epworth and Dangermouse. But still, y’know, good, worth a dance, yeah?

The Rapture - The Sound

‘The Sound’ sees The Rapture grabbing the throttle on Starship Dance and boldly going forward, photons blazing and sub-atomic particle bass-bins pounding. Straining acidized guitars creak in across a, dare I say it, Beatles rip off drum roll from Tomorrow Never Knows. A screeching Cabaret Voltaire ‘Nag Nag Nag’-ing death ray fires across the skies and a series of stuttering lasers and Jean Michel Jarre synth bubbles build up throughout the song until its meltdown ending. It’s a total departure from the punk funk spiky guitars and basic basslines of previous album ‘Echoes’ (that sounds really dated now?), more psychedelia stadium sized production. People will probably diss it but fuck ‘em.

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Do yourself a favour and come to see Gang Gang Dance live at Audio tonight, 20Jazzfunkgreats kids will be raving swooning and swirling in the first row, you know, enigmatic no wave drone spirals with drums to make Jaki Liebezeit proud and exotic illusions de grandeur to make the most sarcastic and weary nerd think of love and adventures for once, we are hoping for tin-foil accessories and wild pirouhettes too, yay! It’s an early gig so doors at 7, come early to see the mighty Spoono supporting as well.

Advanced Warning:

Cheap thrills and toxic spills at TheDoClub this Friday, September 1st!

French punks 10Lec6 are touring the UK, they have just been signed to Troubleman Unlimited (Glass Candy, Chromatics, Ex Models and so many other ace bands) and sound like Les Georges Leningrad vs !!! vs Crass.

They will be playing at all the usual suspects: Trash-Liars Club etc…

At Brighton they’ll be doing THE DO, of course!

Unholy punk rock percussive no wave party, don’t miss out kids.

THE DO- Core Club 10 til the early hours, just 5 quid/4 if you’re NUS or bring a flyer, 3 quid if you go to Kai’s amazing night at the Penthouse before.

The Do loves you, come and join us!

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