Adam-X – As The Fear Shall Follow (EP – Bite)
Genre/Influences: Techno, Industrial, Acid.
Format: Digital, Vinyl.
Background/Info: Next to his latest full-length album “Rüdersdorf Acid Tracks” Adam-X also unleashed this EP. He joined hands with the Berlin (Germany) based Bite label to release three new songs.
Content: “As The Fear Shall Follow” smells like pure, dirty Dark-Techno music. The opening track is accomplished with icy sequences and spoken growls. We next get a track which could have been an appetizer for his latest album focused on Acid. The final cut is the more Techno-driven track.
+ + + : Adam-X composes music for dancefloors and that’s an understatement when listening to this new EP. It’s a diversified work driven by Dark-Techno and infused by Industrial- and Acid elements. I like the dirty sound treatments for having this obscure, freaky, accent. This is Techno for dungeons.
– – – : I can’t say there’s a true title song featured. There’s something to say about each cut.
Conclusion: This EP is the perfect cure to forget the ongoing pandemic and to get us back to clubbing!
Best songs: “As The Fear Shall Follow”, “On The Prowl”.
Rate: 7½.
Side-Line interviewed the producer in January 2019 for ‘Click Interview’ with Adam X: ‘I’ve Always Been Into The Cerebral/Out Of Worldly Side Of Electronic Music’.
Listen to “As The Fear Shall Follow”:
Artist: www.adamx.net / www.facebook.com/AdamXsonicgroove
Label: www.bite-records.com / www.facebook.com/biterecordsberlin
About Adam-X
Adam-X is Adam Mitchell, born in Brooklyn, New York in 1971 and based in Berlin since 2007. With his brother Frankie Bones he opened the Groove Records shop in Brooklyn in April 1990, and the pair organised the Storm Rave warehouse events from 1991. He runs the Sonic Groove label and also records as ADMX-71 and Traversable Wormhole.
His albums are “Audiobiography” on Sonic Groove in 1998, “Creative Vandalism” on Instinct Records in 2001, “Fate Unknown” on Psycho-Dynamics in 2005, “State Of Limbo” on Rustblade in 2008, “Irreformable” on Sonic Groove in 2014, “Recon Mission” in 2018 and “Rüdersdorf Acid Tracks” in 2022.
“As The Fear Shall Follow” was released by Bite on 21 March 2022 and holds three tracks: the title piece, “Mystical Twist” and “On The Prowl”. Adam X wrote and produced the EP, Corinne Schiavone supplied the artwork, Eloise Leigh handled the design, Dadub Studio mastered it and the lacquer was cut at Schnittstelle. The same year he released “The Lion & The Ram” with Maedon as Maedon-X through Tresor.
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