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| Pitchfork |
 Almost three years ago, Justice sampled Italian prog band Goblin on their second single, "Phantom". If the French-house headbangers wanted to show they could weld metal's gothic nightmarishness onto disco's giddy dancefloor excess, they could hardly have made a better symbolic choice. After creating classic film soundtracks for horror auteur Dario Argento with Goblin starting in the mid-1970s, keyboard player Claudio Simonetti went on to help pioneer what is now lovingly known as Italo disco. Horror, disco-- okay, you've met.If cinematic scariness and electronic dance music were ever strange bedfellows, they certainly aren't anymore. Since "Phantom", Justice-style floor pummelers from Kavinsky to CFCF have acknowledged Goblin's influence. The band itself reunited for European live shows and a new album in recent years. And the guys behind German house and techno label Kompakt just started a new imprint, Fright, citing Goblin's Simonetti and Halloween film-scorer John Carpenter as touchstones. Within this burgeoning micro-movement, Venice's William Bottin has shown moments of demonic mastery, but his full-length debut, Horror Disco, rarely makes you jump out of your seat....full text |
| Inthenews |
| What's it all about? Bottin's disco music is born out a morbid fascination for the dark side of the dance floor. Bashed out on analogue moogs and broken synths, Horror Disco draws bloody inspiration from John Carpenter soundtracks, vocoders and classic italo business from the likes of Giorgio Moroder and Mr Flagio. Compared with the more sunny-sided nu-disco shapes thrown by Lindstrom and Prins Thomas, this is dance music best listened to when the lights go off and there's a vampire with its teeth in your neck. Who's it by? Bottin aka Guglielmo Bottin is a Venetian synth freak with a taste for slasher flicks and dance floors dripping with blood. Chicken Lips DJ and Bear Funk's head bear Steve Kotey discovered Bottin at a party in Venice and hasn't been able to keep his ears offa him since. With tracks dropping on the achingly hip Italians Do it Better, Eskimo's Cosmic Balearic Beats Volume 1 and now on Kotey's Bear Funk, Bottin is well placed to be the next big cosmic futurest, albeit one equipped with an analogue cape made from the coldest of blood....full text |
| Inthenews |
| In a nutshell... Noisy, Grungy, Gravely Voiced Howling Rock. What's it all about? Dead Confederate are a five piece from Athens, Georgia in the USA. Five childhood friends who are 'sick of being local...sick of coasting and sick of the jobs that barely kept them in guitar strings...'. Made up of Jason Scarboro on drums, Walker Howle on guitars, John Watkins on the organ and fronted by Hardy Morris (guitar and vocals) and Brantley Senn (Bass and Vocals), the band have built up a strong following, touring with Dinosaur Junior and Meat Puppets, not to mention an appearance on America's 'Late Night with Conan O'Brien'. As an example… "Cause I'm the Rat/No mistake/Under the bed/Where you sleep/Crush the skull/Make me tame/Sweep it up/Hide it away." - The Rat...full text |
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