Coming from 2 of UK electro’s most accomplished electro cadets, Bass Junkie and Dexorcist combine talents to drop a 4 track bomb of mashed up electro. The tracks are all analogue monsters with frantic beats and messy synths creating havoc with your head, try ‘Obey and Survive’ for string laden acidic madness, or the vocal […]
Read more…aka the battle hard team of The Dexorcist and the Bass Junkie – Control Tower vs Breakin’ – you know the steez. Thirteen brutal electro bass bombs to soundtrack a proper epic Roland Emmerich movie with giant robots creating havoc on planet earth. Ugly graphics hide a devastating blast of the hard stuff, dirty, squelchy, […]
Read more“Your planet is defenceless, you have no time to react, as we lay waste to your cities, with our sonorous attack”. This is how the first Kronos Device album starts. With a threatening introduction. Taking back with the cuts already released on “Ravager Of Planets” and “Damage Control” Ep’s (cf. our previous reviews), this second […]
Read moreNo doubt one of the current best electrocore bands, Kronos Device (Bass Junkie & The Dexorcist) joins up again with its third vinyl output! Taken from the eponymous CD album released early this year on Battle Trax (let’s read also the review in our pages), “Qube EP” serves on A side long awaited “Terminate The […]
Read moreFourth vinyl release signed by UK Bass Junkie (Breakin/Battle Trax) and The Dexorcist (Tower Control/SMB) under their anticipating electrocore pseudo. Still taken from the eponymous CD album published at the beginning of 2004 (see previous reviews), monstrous “Qube” appears on A side in both instrumental and vocal version. Combining Sci-Fi sonorities, dark arpeggios and underground […]
Read moreFour hardcore-leaning remixes of Klein’s stonkin’ Dynamix II collaboration, “We Are Borg” (from his ’95 Panic Trax twelve, “The Borg EP”). The mixes are pretty samey and none of them hit with quite the intensity of the original, but Klein’s shifting focus from version to version on the various rhythmic elements of the original (the […]
Read moreGods Of Technology is Bass Junkie & The Dexorcist. Bass Junkie & The Dexorcist are Kronos Device. Therefore, G.O.D is K.D.? Well, on a physical point of view, the answer is yes. But on a musical level, if you listen very carefully to both projects, this is not exactly the truth as K.D. focuses on […]
Read moreDeep and abrasive acid featured here, tricky cuts in the programming make sure that the interest is never lost and the energy on tracks such as ‘Pain Amplifier’ is kept to the maximum.
Read moreHallucinogenic material from Phil Klein, engineered by Cause of Spite. Theology 303, introduced by a dramatic drug speech sample, is a deep, dark 140bpm`er, with planet thud kick, acid and eerie strings: perfect for heavy dark trips. A2, with powerful strings and deep acid, would serve as an excellent underworld film soundtrack.
Read more“Dark acidic techno-electro, horror films heavily influence this style”. Here was in March Bass Junkie’s description of audio concept developed under his Final Dream alter ego (let’s read Cybernet Systems interview on news page). A quite exact definition although Battle Trax mastermind voluntarily forgot to mention rudeness of sounds experimented on one of his most […]
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