If the remake of Clash of the Titan’s had shifted its preconceptions about which particular brand of hyper-masculinity its teenage target audience desired, had instead relocated its mishmash of ancient myths to the basement clubs of hades and, oiled up boys in tow, had unleashed the Kraken upon an unsuspecting dancefloor…it’d sound something like the terrifying, deep bass that opens Petal’s remix of Water Border’s Akko. The thumping looped intro quickly gets stalked by the vocal screams that encircle it. Reverb’d melodies dance around with the darting screams, words glimpsed briefly in the distance, all the time building to the drop as if awaiting some Argento-ian release of horror. Which comes. With the drop.

And we’re back in the Hades club, hands aloft, the kick/snare telling us we’re listening to something we understand, pretty much everything else telling us to run. This EBM by way of Coil by way of Bristolian Bass. This banger for the tortured souls, luxuriating beneath the laser lit stalactites that pass for the club’s merge decoration.

This is terrifying music. The pure heart of every Giallo disco scene. This is the vision of the killers. Grooving to their own murderous 4/4. This is one of the tracks included on the latest release from our very own Hungry for Power Records. This is the Petals’ remix of Water Borders‘ Akko. This pounds…it’s also out on Monday.

Pre-order/buy it here.

Water Borders – Akko (Petals remix)

A very different environment forms around the analogue synths of E.M.A.K.’s untitled Ohne Titel. Bleak and driven in its own fashion. The quasi-Krautrock, propulsive, fuzzy drum machine anchors the concrete/utopian melodies that lock to the mechanical, automated autobahn. The low key synth chords hover in the background of this alluringly bleak sonic world. And yet the oscillating, almost acoustic, synthetic rhythms offer up something more playful than a simple Cold-Wave miserabilist fantasy.

Elektronische Musik Aus Koeln were a Cologne based group who put out what would now be termed Minimal Wave records in the 80s. Soul Jazz have just done their (always welcome) reissue treatment on their back-catalogue. You can get it direct from Soul Jazz here.

E.M.A.K. – Ohne Titel

This is from a vinyl rip of the 80′s original so apologies for the quality.

20JFG will again be journeying up to London to play records at The Old Blue Last on Saturday evening (21:00-01:30).  Come say hi if you can.

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