Cubic – Exit: Frankfurt (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop.
Format: Digital.
Background/Info: After the successful debut album “The Cubic Alphabet” released last year Belgian Franky Deblomme strikes back with a totally new EP featuring three songs plus one remix. This is the debut part of a new series.
Content: The 90s Frankfurter Techno scene has been an important source of inspiration to this EP. Cubic revisited elements of the 90s Techno sound which was really huge in Frankfurt. He mixed it with his ‘Kraftwerk-Pop’ approach, bringing 3 cool songs. It sounds totally dance- and minimal-like with some robotic spoken passages on top. The song “Impact 2023” has been remixed by Nevel who’s another Belgian artist (previously involved with Propulsion, Nebula-H, Ex.Es).
+ + + : This EP reveals 3 new and great songs. It sounds like Cubic with an extra ‘Frankfurter’-Techno touch on top. I like this approach which is also revealing great robotic-vintage sound treatments and deep bass lines. “Wieder Im Keller” is a masterpiece. Both other songs are also worthy of examination while Nevel accomplished a cool, bouncing remix.
– – – : Back in the old days of the Frankfurter Techno scene this EP would have been available as CD. I regret that such a cool work hasn’t been released in a physical format.
Conclusion: Even if Cubic is driven by only retro-elements and influences it remains original and refreshing Electro-Pop.
Best songs: “Wieder Im Keller”, “Impact 2023”.
Rate: 8½.
Artist: https://cubicpromo.be / www.facebook.com/cubicpromo
Label: www.alfa-matrix.com / www.facebook.com/Alfa.Matrix Read the news on ‘Exit: Frankfurt’.
The “Exit – Frankfurt EP” was released on 30 March 2022 through Alfa Matrix.
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About Cubic
Cubic is the Belgian electronic project of producer Franky Deblomme, who was earlier involved in the EBM outfit Darkmen. The project is built on hardware synths and drum machines and draws on the Düsseldorf electro tradition associated with Kraftwerk.
Deblomme joined the Alfa Matrix roster in early 2021 and issued the debut EP “Alphabet Hymn”, then reworked material by Passenger S of 808 DOT POP and Metroland on the cross-project album “The Cubic Temperature”. The first full-length, Cubic – The Cubic Alphabet, followed in mid-2021, ahead of the EP Phonic Lessons part 3 later that year.
“Exit: Frankfurt” opened a series of location-based EPs in 2022 and was followed by “Exit: Ghent” and “Exit: Manchester”. In the same year Deblomme remixed the Side-Line charity single “Ukraina”. The digital EPs “c64” and “c128” preceded the 2024 album “Back To Basic”, whose stems Deblomme later handed to Passenger S for the rework album “Back To 808”. The EP “EFM02” followed, and in 2026 the project revisited that material again, reported as Cubic revisits the ‘Back to 808’ album with the twin EPs ‘CB-708’ and ‘CB-128’.
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