Orange Sector – Alles Wird Gold (Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: “Alles Wird Gold” must be the thirteenth full length album by German EBM formation Orange Sector. Lars Felker and Martin Bodewell have been joined by René Nowotny (AD:KeY, Rector scanner) since the previous album “Alarm” (2019).
Content: The sound of Orange Sector brings us back to the early hours of EBM; short and aggressive songs carried by solid bass lines and linear, danceable kicks. The alluring vocals sound like commanding people to dance.
+ + + : Orange Sector has been often linked to DAF, but more than ever before this opus sounds like being touched by the legacy of DAF. I heard the work as an ode to Gabi Delgado and I think wherever he is, he must be reassured EBM will never die. This work sounds like a great vintage production driven by short, but powerful songs. Next to the already familiar “Angstmann”, “Gold” is another terrific piece of EBM.
– – – : Orange Sector doesn’t reinvent EBM, but is it really necessary when you’ve the skills to compose such a great piece of kicking music. It’s just a pity the album is only featuring more or less 30 minutes of music.
Conclusion: “Alles Wird Gold” reminds us of the essence of EBM; no tricks, no complexity, but just hard-hitting songs to make you dance!
Best songs: “Gold”, “Angstmann”, “Fick Dich”, “The Work Is Done”, “Te Amo”.
Rate: 8½ .
Listen to “Alles Wird Gold”:
Artist: www.facebook.com/OrangeSector
Label: www.infacted-recordings.de / www.facebook.com/pages/Infacted-Recordings/124099254321690
About Orange Sector
Orange Sector formed in Hannover, Germany in 1992. The band started with the self-released cassette “The War Comes Home” that same year, then worked with Zoth Ommog Records through the 1990s on releases such as “Faith” (1993), “Kids In America” and “Flashback” (1994), “Love It!” (1997) and “Masquerade” (1998), before pausing in 1998.
The group returned in 2004 and signed with Infacted Recordings, which issued the “Here We Are [Back Again]” EP in 2005. Albums and EPs followed at a steady rate: “Bassprodukt” (2006), “Profound” (2007), “Sweet Isolation” (2008), “Mindfuck” (2009), “Krieg & Frieden” (2010), “Der Maschinist” (2012), “Geile Zeit” and “Vorwärts Nach Weit” (2013), “Glasmensch” (2015), “Endzeit” (2017), “Die Fahne” (2018) and “Alarm” (2019). Side-Line covered the EP trilogy when Orange Sector to release 3rd and final part of their EP trilogy: ‘Farben’ ran in 2016, and spoke to the band in the 2019 ‘Click Interview’ with Orange Sector.
Infacted Recordings released “Alles Wird Gold” on December 3, 2021. The eleven tracks are “Kleingeist”, “Gold”, “Angstmann”, “Der Totmacher”, “Fick Dich”, “Alles Ist Grau”, “Mutation”, “Te Amo”, “The Work Is Done”, “No Justice – No Peace” and “Nuklear”.
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