Orphx – The Way Through All Things (EP – Sonic Groove)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Techno, Industrial-Techno.
Format: Digital, Vinyl.
Background/Info: Canadian Orphx-duo strikes back with a new EP featuring four new cuts.
Content: Rich Oddie and Christina Sealey are back with a hard-banging production whereon they’re mixing Dark-Techno with Industrial components and ominous atmospheres empowered with tormented, ghost-like vocal effects.
+ + + : This work moves much further than simply techno and Industrial music. It’s an intelligent fusion of underground styles Orphx transposed into a visionary sound dimension. The dark, tormented, atmosphere they created has something very unique; like dance stuff for dungeons. There’s something to say about each track but I especially recommend listening to “Gateway” and “In The Presence”.
– – – : It’s a pity this is just an EP and not a full length album; I want more from this!
Conclusion: Orphx remain driven through a great and Avant-Garde creative mind.
Best songs: “Gateway”, “In The Presence”.
Rate: 8.
Artist: www.orphx.com / www.facebook.com/orphx
Label: www.sonicgroove.com / www.facebook.com/Sonicgrooverecords
About Orphx
Orphx is a Canadian industrial techno duo founded in late 1993 by Rich Oddie, Christina Sealey and Aron West. Their early output was inspired by early industrial music and power electronics before the trio began introducing elements of techno, electro and dub. West left in 1994 to create the noise project Tropism, leaving Oddie and Sealey to continue as a duo, with West later rejoining as a contributing member. The band’s discography includes the album “Pitch Black Mirror” (2016, Sonic Groove / Hands Productions) and the “Archive 1993-1994” vinyl set (2017), released through Sonic Groove, which also released the “The Way Through All Things” EP.
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