Maedon-X – The Lion And The Ram (Album – Tresor Records)
Genre/Influences: Hard-Techno, Techno-Body, Industrial-Techno.
Format: Digital, Vinyl.
Background/Info: This work resulted from the collaborative efforts between Maeghan Donovan aka ‘Maedon’ and Adam Mitchell aka ‘Adam X’. While Adam X is running Sonic Groove Records this album has been released by Tresor Records.
Content: If you know the work of both artists you for sure can have an idea about the sound featured on this album. It’s a hard and dark Techno style infused by Industrial sound treatments and some EBM elements. It sounds pretty straight forward and sometimes a bit tormenting because of the cold blasts.
+ + + : I’m not surprised about this collaboration. Partners in crime and lovers, Maedon and Adam X are inviting the listeners to a true Technoid cataclysm. Maedon is known for her hard and merciless style which you rapidly recognize while I guess Adam X injected a retro-like element. Linear and furious, this work stands for non-stop danceable vibes. The opening piece “Breath In It” sounds by far my personal favorite one.
– – – : I got the feeling the work is getting a bit predictable after a while.
Conclusion: Maedon-X is a kind of damaging and perverted Techno sound for dungeon dancefloors.
Best songs: “Breath In It”, “Corrupt Pigs”, “Subterranean Caverns”, “Subliminal Messages”.
Rate: 7½.
Artists: www.facebook.com/maed0n / www.facebook.com/AdamXsonicgroove
Label: www.tresorberlin.com / www.facebook.com/tresorberlin
About Maedon-X
Maedon is the alias of American artist Maeghan Donovan, previously active as Pulsewidthmod. Now based in Berlin, she released her debut EP “Against His Will” on Sonic Groove in 2019, followed by the EP “Escape To Berlin” and the debut full-length “Now I Am Become Death”. Adam X, real name Adam Mitchell, runs Sonic Groove Records and signed Maedon to the label after the two met in Brooklyn in 2018.
“The Lion And The Ram” is credited to the joint moniker Maedon-X and was released via Tresor Records, marking the pair’s first full collaborative album together.
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