Genre/Influences: EBM, Industrial.

Format: Digital.

Background/Info: “Filthy Tendrils” is the third full length album by German CattaC. The work was released during the pandemic, which also meant they had to cancel a tour.

Content: The work takes off with the title song, which is a kind of intro. Quite progressively CaddaC reveals a particular EBM format, which has something minimal, carried by retro leads and led by deeply, cavernous vocals. They suddenly bring a cover version of Type O Negative’s “Bloody Kisses”, which also reveals an ultra-dark and doom-like approach. The next song sounds pretty similar, but they rapidly move back into dark EBM. The album features 8 songs plus 3 remixes. Among the remixes there’s one remix of Defiant Machines –which was featured with a remix on both debut albums as well, plus a remix of a song from the debut album by Chapter 11.

+ + + : CattaC mixes retro elements with something very personal, creating a surprising, but efficient EBM sound. The singer’s particular, deep timbre of voice accentuates the atypical approach of the band. CattaC mixes different ideas together and this open-minded vision brings them to explore unexpected genres as well. The Electro-driven songs are however the most convincing ones. “My Stormy Moon”, “Wintercold”, “They’re Watching Us” and “She’s The Devil” are excellent exponents of the work. I also have to mention the more melodic remix of “The Blackest One”.

– – – : The cover version of Type O Negative and “I’m Here For You” both are into a less inspired and less efficient Goth-Industrial approach. The tenebrous production of the vocals has something cool, but unfortunately a bit monotone after a while. 

Conclusion: Globally speaking this new work by CaddaC is an excellent surprise. It sounds like EBM out of the box!

Best songs: “Wintercold”, “My Stormy Moon”, “They’re Watching Us”, “She’s The Devil”.

Rate: (7½).

Artist: www.cattac.de / www.facebook.com/cattac.official

Label: www.darktunes.com / www.facebook.com/darkTunesMusic

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(By our Norwegian correspondent Jan Ronald Stange)

Late this summer the Norwegian electro-pop band Electro Spectre announced a remix contest for their latest single “The way you love”, and the results are in! Isak Rypdal, producer and keyboardist of Electro Spectre, received tens of mixes, both domestic and from abroad. This resulted in an EP release with 7 winning remixes, and lots of the runners up are also available on a Bandcamp page.

‘The Way You Love REMIXES’ WP includes remixes from SnifferGod (Alex Møklebust / Zeromancer, Seigmen), Morganix (Morgan Lindstrøm / Langsomt Mot Nord, w/additional vocals by Kjersti Helene Larsen), Defiant Machines, Technomancer, Mudman, Watch Dogs and the Cologne based remixer Yves.
The “Morganix remix” will also have it’s radio debut on Norwegian broadcaster Radio Nova this Friday night (September 14th) – check out the synth related programme Midnight Magic around 23:00: https://radionova.no/programmer/midnightmagic

Buy/listen to the REMIXES @ iTunes, Spotify and Bandcamp. Do also check out the runners up at their own Bandcamp page!

Jan Ronald Stange

Sometimes – when I’m not cooking, biking, listening to music or attending concerts, I write stuff for Side-Line.com. Mostly about Norwegian bands, but it’s been some Swedish, English, American, Danish, German and others too… 😉

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