Metal Disco – Rough & Dirty (EP – Werkstatt Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Wave, Minimal-Electro, EBM, Electroclash.
Format: Digital, CD, Cassette.
Background/Info: After having released the album “Techno Electronics 2015-2020” earlier this year Greek artist and label owner Toxic Razor strikes back with a new EP of his Metal Disco project.
Content: Metal Disco remains driven by the power and magic of good-old analogue equipment. The music is clearly evoking some distant although still inspiring 80s Electro-Wave. The songs are mixing different other influences like EBM while the main approach remains pretty minimal. All vocals have been sung in English.
+ + + : If you like the good-old analogue sounds, Metal Disco clearly is a project you’re going to like. Neither complexity nor tricks, but songs that go with the flow and the inspiration of the artist. I however like the somewhat more elaborated last song “Thrust” while “Rotten To The Core” is another attention grabber for the metallic sound treatments and cool extra effect on the vocals.
– – – : The tracks remain pretty short; each song is about approximate 3 minutes.
Conclusion: Metal Disco brings us back to the 80s and yet this project sounds refreshing.
Best songs: “Thrust”, “Rotten To The Core”.
Rate: 7½.
Artist: www.facebook.com/metaldiscomusic
Label: www.facebook.com/werkstattrecordings
About Metal Disco
Metal Disco is the solo project of Greek musician and producer Toxic Razor, who also runs the Athens label Werkstatt Recordings and works with Paradox Obscur and Beatbox Machinery. Discogs lists the project from 2015 with “Unearthly Vices” and “Fetish Club Anthems”, followed by “Tease” in 2016, “Devil Explicit” in 2017, the single “The Tyger/Obnoxious” on Detonic Recordings and “Vade Mecum” in 2018, the “Banger EP” in 2019 and “Sex, Drugs & Hardware” plus the “Clublife EP” in 2020.
The 2021 retrospective referred to above appears on Discogs and Bandcamp under the title “Technoid Electronics 2015-2020”. “Rough & Dirty” was released on 25 July 2021 through Werkstatt Recordings, digitally and in a limited cassette edition in a clear shell with a double-sided printed j-card. It was produced, mixed and performed by Metal Disco, with music and lyrics by Metal Disco, and holds four tracks: “Vile”, “Rotten To The Core”, “To The Beat Of Her Heart” and “Thrust”.
Toxic Razor discussed the hardware-only method behind the project in the ‘Click Interview’ with Metal Disco in March 2022.
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