Blush Response – Neuroscape (Album – Megastructure)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-Techno, Techno-Body, Experimental.
Format: Digital, Vinyl.
Background/Info: American sound guru Joey Blush is back on track unleashing his newest album “Neuroscape”.
Content: Blush Response is connected to Berliner Techno music. Joey is operating from Berlin( Germany) and is clearly infected by the avant-garde sound of the local Techno scene; dark and powerful! The tracks have been elaborated with an impressive sound canvas of analogue sounds and effects. Ghost-like vocals have been added while there’s a song featuring Nitzer Ebb machinist Bon Harris on vocals. Another song features sound designer Richard Devine.
+ + + : Blush Response remains a visionary project; composed with analogue material but clearly revealing a futuristic vision. The tracks are powerful and sometimes feel like an imaginary sonic bulldozer. I like it dark and Industrial like featured at the terrific “Flesh And Soil”. But I also have to mention the great and more EBM driven “Chained” featuring great vocals by Bon Harris.
– – – : The last track is Experimental which sounds different and appears to be a rather poorly inspired final cut.
Conclusion: Blush Response stands for an adrenaline boost; a great project operating at the front of dark and visionary Industrial-Techno-Body music.
Best Songs: “Flesh And Soil”, “Chained”, “Watching Yourself Being Born”, “Locutus”, “Death Line Rupture”.
Rate: 8½.
Artist: www.facebook.com/blushresponseofficial
Label: www.facebook.com/megastructurelabel
Listen to “Neuroscape” below:
About Blush Response
Blush Response is the project of Joey Gonzalez, an American musician who relocated from New York to Berlin. Active for about a decade by 2020, he released music through labels including Sonic Groove, Ant-Zen, Basic Unit Productions and Aufnahme + Wiedergabe before founding his own label, Megastructure, to release the album “Void In” that year.
Gonzalez has collaborated with Thomas P. Heckmann as Drax Response and with Rhys Fulber, with whom he worked on Fear Factory’s “The Industrialist” album around 2012. “Neuroscape”, reviewed here, follows that Megastructure-era work and features Nitzer Ebb’s Bon Harris and sound designer Richard Devine as guests.
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