Metal Disco feat. Incirrina – In Motion (EP – Werkstatt Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Italo-Disco.
Format: Digital, CD, Cassette.
Background/Info: Greek project Metal Disco already has a new work out. ‘Toxic Razor’ (still involved with Paradox Obscur) joined hands with the singer of the Greek project Incirrina, Irini Tini to achieve this EP.
Content: Every new work by Metal Disco brings a different sonic focus. The main influences remain driven by raw Electro-Pop and EBM but we now get elements of Italo-Disco on top. It sounds refreshing retro like with great female vocals on top. The last song is a remix by Stutter Monk.
+ + + : Metal Disco has probably achieved one of its most elaborated works although it remains very accessible. The mix of Electro-Wave and Italo-Disco with the sensual vocals on top creates a great sonic symbiosis and the perfect music to dance. The pure vintage sound treatments inject this little touch of magic resulting in cool songs.
– – – : I still regret the songs remain pretty short. The Stutter Monk-remix doesn’t really sound like a bonus.
Conclusion: Metal Disco never stops to take me by surprise. This is a great retro-like Electro/Wave-Pop and Italo-Disco production.
Best songs: “Tension”, “Heavy Rain”, “In Motion”.
Rate: 8.
Artists: www.facebook.com/metaldiscomusic / www.facebook.com/Incirrinaband
Label: www.facebook.com/werkstattrecordings
“In Motion” was released on 20 March 2022 through Werkstatt Recordings. Metal Disco produced, mixed and performed the EP and wrote the music and lyrics, with vocals by Irini Tini of Incirrina and a remix of “Tension” by Stutter Monk. Nikolas “TheMute” Chalntoupis mixed the vocals and mastered the release at SoundCave Studios in Athens.
Listen to “In Motion”:
About Metal Disco
Metal Disco is the solo project of Athens-based musician Kostas Stavropoulos, who works under the name ‘Toxic Razor’ and runs the Werkstatt Recordings label. He is also involved with Paradox Obscur, Beatbox Machinery, Resistance Of Independent Music and Hardware Pulse. Metal Disco is composed entirely on hardware equipment, and the sound mixes EBM, minimal-electro, electro-wave and electroclash.
Stavropoulos set out the reasoning behind that hardware-only method in Side-Line’s ‘Click Interview’ with Metal Disco in March 2022, weeks before this EP was reviewed. He described the starting point for the project as “having punchy drum rhythms with dirty driven basslines in a kinda more minimal approach with not many instruments/sounds involved.”
“In Motion” pairs the project with Incirrina, the Athens electro and synth-wave act fronted by Irini Tini. Metal Disco continued the sequence in 2023 with the album Metal Disco – Technoid Electronics II 2021-2022, while Incirrina went on to release “Lip Led Scream” in 2023 and Incirrina release new album ‘Trace’ on Cold Transmission Music in 2026.
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