Jauzas The Shining – Dark Mirror (EP – Space Factory)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electro, EBM, Techno-Body.
Format: Digital.
Background/Info: Romain Jauzas aka Jauzas The Shining is a very prolific artist. He already moved back to Space Factory to release earlier this year “Dark Mirror” featuring four new cuts.
Content: The French artist doesn’t really repeat himself and tries to accentuate a few different influences on each work. His work remains however contaminated by Minimal-Electro, EBM and Techno music. On “Dark Mirror” he reminds me a bit of early Front 242 and their debut album “Geography”. It’s all about the great analogue sounds, which are carried by a slow, danceable cadence. You’ll also notice a few vocal parts, which are now spoken-like and then mixed in the background creating a foggy effect.
+ + + : I like this production for its magic sound treatments; pure vintage and definitely appealing for 80s lovers. The title-song is a very good exposure of this retro-futuristic approach. I also have to mention “Consumed” driven by a solid bass line in the purest EBM tradition.
– – – : The EP features 4 different cuts, which is pretty cool although the last song (cf. “Inertie”) sounds like an antithesis to the other tracks.
Conclusion: Jauzas The Shining remains faithful to his beloved style and influences, but this is a noticeable work for its extra vintage impression.
Best songs: “Dark Mirror”, “Consumed”, “Radar”.
Rate: 7½.
Artist: www.facebook.com/jauzastheshining
Label: www.facebook.com/spacefactory
About Jauzas The Shining
Jauzas The Shining is the electro and EBM project of French producer Romain Jauzas. His first releases appeared in 2008: the “Labyrinthe” EP on Open Concept Recordings and the “Nautilus” and “Plug” EPs on Black Montanas. “Immensity” followed on Black Leather Records in 2011 and the “Ciudades Muertas” 12″ on Aztlán in 2016.
He began working with the French label Space Factory in 2018 with “One Night Lost”, followed by “Multiple” in 2019 and by “Scrutinizing You” and “Immersion” in 2020. The same period brought “Digital Sensation” on Shipwrec in 2019, the cassette album “The Discovery of the Senses” on Tripalium Corp in 2020 and “Visió De Terror” on Brokntoys.
“Dark Mirror” was issued by Space Factory on 3 September 2021 as catalogue SF68, in WAV digital format, and holds “Dark Mirror”, “Consumed”, “Radar” and “Inertie”. The same year he released the “Inbetween Days” cassette on Label In Disarray and the album “Substance” on Specimen. He returned to Space Factory with “Premonition” in 2024.
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