Dimitri Berzerk – A.I.C.Q.T.I.L. (EP – Sector Industrial Producciones)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electro, Ambient-Electro.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: Next to the great “Resist”-EP Mexican DJ/producer/label owner, Dimitri Berzerk also released this EP during 2020. The EP is accompanied by the visual work of the Mexican artist Cristina Ramírez. We can speak about a conceptual album, ‘The voices are in charge of the various dubbing applied to Jean Luc Godard’s cinematographic work “Alphaville”.
Content: The title song is an instrumental piece mixing Ambient atmospheres together with Minimal-Electro treatments while a slow cadence is running through the song. We next get 8 bonus tracks, which are characterized by vocal samplings from the film by Jean Luc Godard. The specificity of the different edits is you each time get another language: Spanish, English, Russian, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish and of course French.
+ + + : “A.I.C.Q.T.I.L.” has less in common with the “Resist”-EP, but it reveals another side of Dimitri Berzerk. If “Resist” clearly sounds as a dancefloor cut, we here discover a more dreamy song accomplished with great minimal sound treatments while the downtempo of the song makes it pretty accessible. From a pure commercial point of view the idea to inject the same spoken samples from the Godard movie in different languages is just great. It’s an original idea and I can’t remember if an artist already did such an approach. The EP also is a great ode to the genius of the ‘Nouvelle Vague’ film director Jean Luc Godard.
– – – : The only minus is that after a while you get a bit bored of the song, which is repeating itself. So you better choose the language you prefer. A Swedish edit would have been cool as well as there’s a great Swedish Electro scene.
Conclusion: Dimitri Berzerk didn’t repeat himself, but reveals another side of his creativity.
Best songs: “A.I.C.Q.T.I.L. – Interprétation En Français”.
Rate: (7½).
Artist: www.facebook.com/dimitri.berzerk
Label: www.sector-industrial.com / www.facebook.com/sector.industrial.producciones
About Dimitri Berzerk
Dimitri Berzerk is a DJ, producer and remixer based in Mexico City, and the owner of the label Sector Industrial Producciones. He also works as a remixer under the name DMT Berzerk, crediting more than 100 remixes for other artists. His artist name references the classic Atari video game “Berzerk” and the band Apoptygma Berzerk.
Berzerk began releasing his own material with the single/EP “My Love Is Electric”, featuring Franco Doglioli, followed by the “Resist” EP with Claus Larsen of Leather Strip as guest vocalist. “A.I.C.Q.T.I.L.”, covered here, is a conceptual EP built around vocal samples from Jean-Luc Godard’s film “Alphaville”, released across several languages.
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