Beatbox Machinery – Mega City Hunters (EP – Werkstatt Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electro, Electro-Ambient.
Format: Digital, CD, Cassette.
Background/Info: And here’s another EP by the Greek project Beatbox Machinery which is driven by Toxic Razor (Paradox Obscur, Metal Disco, Hardware Pulse ao).
Content: The work features 4 different songs which are instrumentals. None of the songs go over the 3 minutes. Sound-wise this is a danceable mix of space atmospheres, Minimal-Electro and Trance passages.
+ + + : The vintage sound treatments have something magic and especially when carried by a solid bass line like at “Electronic Birds Turning The Sky”. The title song is another noticeable cut for its analogue effects.
– – – : I’m missing a few vocal lines and it remains a damned pity the songs are that short.
Conclusion: Toxic Razor convinced me for years now with his projects Paradox Obscur and Metal Disco but Beatbox Machinery is just another of his sonic brainchilds to discover.
Best songs: “Electronic Birds Turning The Sky”, “Mega City Hunters”.
Rate: 7½.
Artist: www.facebook.com/BeatboxMachinery
Label: www.facebook.com/werkstattrecordings
About Beatbox Machinery
Beatbox Machinery started in February 2010 in Athens, Greece, as a project of Toxic Razor. The material is recorded with hardware synthesizers and drum machines, without software instruments.
Releases appear through Werkstatt Recordings, the Athens label Toxic Razor has run since 2009. “Mega City Hunters” came out on digital, CD and cassette, as did the companion EP “Night Vision”.
Toxic Razor described his hardware-only method in the 2022 ‘Click Interview’ with Metal Disco.
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