10/1/12
Review - Axesscode (french)
http://chroniques.axesscode.com/chroniques/article/neon-rain-of-the-dead
"... véritable tour de force, sans jamais perdre la cohérence du sujet... chacun des trois disques de ...Of The Dead dispose de sa propre ambiance, sa propre couleur, rendant le tout encore plus vertigineux."
8/16/12
Out Ov The Coffin - podcast
http://outovthecoffin.blogspot.fr/2012/08/podcast-august-10th-2012.html
Review on the Crucial Blast e-shop
The first disc A Night begins with a weirdly nostalgic piano piece laced with the sounds of pipe organ and buried dialogue samples from the opening graveyard scene in Romero's original Night Of The Living Dead; this soft instrumental music is gradually overtaken by waves of rough static and low-end distortion, until it eventually transforms into a wall of distorted rumble and crackle, sort of resembling Werewolf Jerusalem for a couple of minutes until a crunchy pulsating synth-line drops in amid clanking anvil percussion and metallic roar, building into this pounding electro-dirge that has a sinister Goblin-like vibe. Much of this album centers around a heavily layered form of rhythmic industrial music that combines equal amounts of clanking, whirring mechanical rhythms with electronic synthesizer arrangements that remind me a lot of older horror movie soundtracks; it also reminds me of some of those old, obscure UK hypno-industro groups that released stuff on HeadDirt in the early 90s. The rest of the disc goes from fluttering synth noises and high keening test tones that take on the appearance of warning sirens, to blasts of black cosmic horror-electronics and vast, sprawling expanses of seething death industrial, to the minimal and menacing "The Cellar Is The Safest Place " that echoes John Carpenter's early 80s film score works. Then there's "A Shot In The Head, A Heavy Blow To The Skull", where some extremely heavy distorted guitar sounds come in, huge grinding squalls of metallic blown-out melodic crush, almost like waves of Nadja-style blissed-out ultra-sludge crashing over the hallucinatory samples and mechanical rattling.
Disc number two picks up with Dawn Of The Dead as its muse, and interlaces samples of dialogue and music from that movie into the grim industrial ambience that spreads across the whole disc. This is described as the "ambient" disc in the set, and that's pretty accurate; the music on A Dawn drifts through dreamy drug-fogs of electronics effects and air raid sirens and malfunctioning mainframes, often taking big chunks of Goblin's score and re-working it into a vastly more fucked-sounding form. By the third track I was already dizzy, disoriented by the swirling Italo keys and analogue bloops and random noise. This also has some of the set's heaviest sounds, like the buzzing distorted guitar-drones that ooze like black streams of Sunn O)))-baked tar on "They Know We'Re Here" and suddenly transforms this into a crushing drone-metal dirge.
My favorite though is the third and final disc titled A Day. This features the most rhythmic material of the set, tracks like "They Rise" and "More & More Every Day" sounding like a strange sort of electronic pop, with hooky synth melodies laid out over pounding industrial rhythms and booming tribal drums, super catchy but still possessing that dark apocalyptic vibe of the previous discs. The catchier music will also suddenly transform into a lumbering bit of splatter soundtrack work, and most of the tracks end up sounding a LOT like contempo giallo-programmers like Gatekeeper and Umberto. Not all of this is like that though. There's still moments of bleak wasteland drone-burn and passages of rumbling death ambience found among the pulsating electronic pieces. It's all about the sinister 70s/80s electronic soundtrack sound overall, and fans of the recent wave of bands mining retro-horror OST grooves would probably love this.This killer horror-industrial epic comes in a six-panel gatefold jacket, and was released in a limited edition of 2,000 copies.
http://www.crucialblast.net
7/31/12
Summer Tape Summer Hate (7th mix)
This is summer, and a lot of CDs cover my desk. So I share with you what I listen to while the sun is burning every organic life outside. Take a deep breath and a cold drink... Enjoy.
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The Tracklist :
Laibach - Warme Lederhaut
Crystal Castles - Monumental Retro-Avant-Garde (Live At Tate Modern / 14 April 2012) ©Abbey Road Live Here Now 2012
Second Planet - Never Never Land
Second Planet - Work Processing © SkullLine 2012
Brigade Rosse - Allein Mit Dir
Brigade Rosse - Nachts am Fenster © Plastic Frog Records 2012
Maska Genetik - Ernste Stunde
Maska Genetik - Strada © Galakthorrö 2011
High Damage - Brain Tone
High Damage - High Damage © Jarring Effects 2012
Black Mayonnaise - Narcotic Fog
Black Mayonnaise - Ttssattsr © Emperor Jones 2004
Kristoffer Nyströms Orkester - Vulgalina Fever (Edit)
Various Artists - Thanateros - Visions Of Love And Death © :Ikonen: Media 2011
Agent Side Grinder - Life In Advance (Jacques C Remix)
Various Artists - DEATH # DISCO Compilation Volume II © DEATH # DISCO 2012
Exlovers - You're So Quiet
ExLovers - Moth © Young And Lost Club 2012
Fever Ray - Concrete Walls
Fever Ray - Fever Ray © Mute 2009
Big Blood - ECHOHEAD
Big Blood - Already Gone I © Don't Trust The Ruin 2009
Lykke Li - Get some
Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes © LL Recordings 2011
Traum'er Leben - Lili Marleen
Various Artists - Enemies - A Collection Of Wartime Lyrical Tunes © Der Angriff 2009
Of The Wand & The Moon - Tear It Apart
Of The Wand & The Moon - The Lone Descent © Heiðrunar Myrkrunar 2011
Warpaint - Majesty
Warpaint - The Fool © Rough Trade 2010
Silent Signals - Berlin Is Lost
Various Artists - DEATH # DISCO Compilation Volume II © DEATH # DISCO 2012
Contagious Orgasm + Flutwacht - Inspection 09
Contagious Orgasm + Flutwacht - Inspection Of 1 Hour © SSSM 2009
Thorofon - In Blood And Heels
Thorofon - Targets © Ant-Zen 2012
Slogun - We Attack
Slogun - We Human Animal © Circle Of Shit 2011
Hanatarash - Young Hate
Hanatarash - Hanatarash 3 © RRRecords 1989
Incapacitants - We need more products Sub-advised
Incapacitants & TADM - Stocks & Bonds © Self Abuse Records 1999
Yelle - S'éteint le soleil
Yelle - Safari Disco Club © V2 Records 2011
7/20/12
¡Viva España!
Lux Atenea Webzine
"...Of The Dead", un álbum de culto inspirado en una trilogía cinematográfica de culto. ¡¡¡Disfrútenlo!!!
"...Of The Dead", un álbum de culto inspirado en una trilogía cinematográfica de culto. ¡¡¡Disfrútenlo!!!
7/19/12
5/30/12
Spread like a virus
http://www.vitalweekly.net/833.html
NEON RAIN - OF THE DEAD (3CD by Steelwork Machine)
Neon Rain started in 1998 with the release of a tape full of recordings made between 1992 and 1997. The last album was released four years ago and for now Neon Rain created an epic trilogy inspired by the first zombie movies of George A. Romero. This American movie maker combines intelligent social criticism and horror. He was one of the first moviemakers who made a big change in the horror genre. No gothic atmosphere anymore, like most moviemakers did before, with scenes from the 19th Century, but based in here and now. Neon Rain took three movies as the base for their music, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead. The trilogy "Of the dead" was composed between 2005 - 2010. The CD's "A Night" and "A Dawn" were composed by Serge Usson and David Delwiche. "A Day" is composes by Serge Usson himself. Each CD has his own atmosphere. "A Night" has a nice mix between melancholic sounds, noise and is based on a song structure. "A Dawn" is more noise orientated with sampled voices, analog synthesizers and distorted guitar sounds melted together in abstract compositions. And at last "A Day" with industrial beats in different forms and intensity. I like this part of the trilogy most, because it combines all elements of the other CD's in one album. The artwork of the CD is well done, especially the inner sleeve has a beautiful design in a traditional way for this kind of music.Neon Rain takes time to create new work and I am looking forward to their next project, because this piece of music tastes for more. (JKH)
NEON RAIN - OF THE DEAD (3CD by Steelwork Machine)
Neon Rain started in 1998 with the release of a tape full of recordings made between 1992 and 1997. The last album was released four years ago and for now Neon Rain created an epic trilogy inspired by the first zombie movies of George A. Romero. This American movie maker combines intelligent social criticism and horror. He was one of the first moviemakers who made a big change in the horror genre. No gothic atmosphere anymore, like most moviemakers did before, with scenes from the 19th Century, but based in here and now. Neon Rain took three movies as the base for their music, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead. The trilogy "Of the dead" was composed between 2005 - 2010. The CD's "A Night" and "A Dawn" were composed by Serge Usson and David Delwiche. "A Day" is composes by Serge Usson himself. Each CD has his own atmosphere. "A Night" has a nice mix between melancholic sounds, noise and is based on a song structure. "A Dawn" is more noise orientated with sampled voices, analog synthesizers and distorted guitar sounds melted together in abstract compositions. And at last "A Day" with industrial beats in different forms and intensity. I like this part of the trilogy most, because it combines all elements of the other CD's in one album. The artwork of the CD is well done, especially the inner sleeve has a beautiful design in a traditional way for this kind of music.Neon Rain takes time to create new work and I am looking forward to their next project, because this piece of music tastes for more. (JKH)
5/22/12
5/16/12
A new great review
Das “Of The Dead” stark werden würde, habe ich schon erwartet. Dennoch muss ich nun gestehen, dass das Gesamtergebnis noch überwältigender ausgefallen ist.
“Of The Dead” ist ein wahres Meisterwerk der verstörenden sowie atmosphärischen Tonkunst.
Respektvoll spreche ich jetzt schon von einem Klassiker und mein Dank für dieses grandiose Stück Musik geht an Steelwork Maschine. In diesem Sinne – Full House!
http://www.necroweb.de/neonrain-of-the-dead/
Das “Of The Dead” stark werden würde, habe ich schon erwartet. Dennoch muss ich nun gestehen, dass das Gesamtergebnis noch überwältigender ausgefallen ist.
“Of The Dead” ist ein wahres Meisterwerk der verstörenden sowie atmosphärischen Tonkunst.
Respektvoll spreche ich jetzt schon von einem Klassiker und mein Dank für dieses grandiose Stück Musik geht an Steelwork Maschine. In diesem Sinne – Full House!
http://www.necroweb.de/neonrain-of-the-dead/
“Of The Dead” ist ein wahres Meisterwerk der verstörenden sowie atmosphärischen Tonkunst.
Respektvoll spreche ich jetzt schon von einem Klassiker und mein Dank für dieses grandiose Stück Musik geht an Steelwork Maschine. In diesem Sinne – Full House!
http://www.necroweb.de/neonrain-of-the-dead/
5/11/12
Fuck Yeah !
A german review of NEONRAIN - OF THE DEAD
Neon Rain – …Of The Dead
Fazit:
“…Of The Dead” benötigt ein riesiges Freizeitzeitfenster, ansonsten bleibt das Eintauchen in die phänomenalen Tiefen verwehrt, die dieses weitere Meisterwerk von Neon Rain auszeichnet, das nicht nur zu den Aushängeschildern des französischen Industrial/ Dark Ambient/ Electro gehört – meine absolute (Kauf-) Empfehlung!
4/18/12
OF THE DEAD
NEON RAIN
OF THE DEAD
SMR010 - 3CD
2000 copies
4 years after the We are Meat / The Vultures album, NEONRAIN is back with a 3 piece album called "...Of The Dead", dedicated to the first zombie trilogy of George A. Romero. Each CD deals with a specific movie and explores different sounds : Noise, Ambient/Drone and Electro-Industrial. David Delwiche (HYTC) is featuring on this album
SAMPLES :
NEON RAIN
MORE OF THE DEAD
SKM017 - CD
100 copies
A bonus CD (available on Steelkraft Manufactory), « More Of The Dead » deals with the second trilogy in a lo-fi noise folk style.
SAMPLES :
NEON RAIN
OF THE DEAD LIMITED EDITION
SMR010+SKM015 - 3CD+CD+TSHIRT+BOX
50 copies
A special reel metal canister celebrates this new release including
- « ...Of The Dead »
- « More Of The Dead »
- an exclusive t-shirt
- stickers.
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