MANUFACTURA


Regression
11 tracks - playing time: 56:18 min.
Auricle Media
Rating: 9/10
 
This is the first album released on the Auricle Media label which is owned by Scott Sturgis of Converter. So now you should have an indication what this album is about; harsh, rhythmic industrial. I really enjoy listening to this album and can’t stop moving while playing it! The opening track of the album, “State Prison (Live Riot Mix)”, sets the right atmosphere for the rest of the album. Spoken word samples and halfway through the song a dark monotonous beat is injected so there’ll be no standing still anymore. Next is the first highlight of this CD, the potential floorfiller “Killing You”, which is danceable from the beginning of the song till the very last second. This is rhythmic industrial at its very best! “I’ll Tear Your Fucking Heart Out” is more of the same, but this track has some very nice breaks in it and contains some melodious synth loops that make the song more diverse, but not less danceable.
“Eres Animal?” is more dark ambient, while “It’s Nice In Here” is, as the title indicates, a very nice song with a female voice that tells you that it’s very nice in the dark which it really is when you listen to this song, sitting back, enjoying some wine.


Time to wake up again with “Ritmo Y Ruido”. I don’t like drum’n’bass that much, but I can handle this song because the repeatedly used breaks are dark, distorted and have the right pace. “4:00 AM” is kind of a bridge that takes you to the dark side again, starting off with “Muerte, Sangre”, a noisy song which reminds me of the older and experimental works of Einstürzende Neubauten and Orphx. We stay Spanish with “Asolas En La Oscuridad”, in which a distorted Spanish voice grabs you by the throat and somewhere in the distance you hear a hammer continuously forging steel.
The most catchy song of this album however has to be “Sacred Sin”. A perfect mixture of rhythmic industrial and dark EBM/trance with fast pumping beats and a haunting sample, which comes close to someone having the worst nightmare imaginable.
As a dessert you get a remix of “Killing You” by Converter in the best Converter tradition. Damn, why am I still talking? It’s time to dance motherfuckers!!!!!!

(Ornny)

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