Templezone – Electronic Body Set (Digital/CD Album – Templezone)
Giorgio Ricci remains a busy bee. Known for his past in Templebeat, he is currently also involved with the successful Post-Punk group They Die and released a brilliant minimalist album with Monosonik last year. Toward the end of that same year, he returned with a new self-released album from Templezone, a project that has already spawned three great albums in the past.
Templezone sounds completely different from his other projects and is often described as a kind of sequel to Templebeat. Apart from a striking similarity in the name, however, the music diverges significantly. Ricci builds on a solid Techno foundation, reinforced with elements of EBM and touches of Trance. The album is an explosive, club-oriented work that is impossible to remain indifferent to. The dark atmosphere he injects throughout makes it both accessible and engaging for a wider audience. The tracks are carefully crafted and occasionally enhanced with distorted spoken samples. Some passages take on a rhythmic Cinematic quality, while others lean more toward Psy-Trance.
Productions like this inevitably attract the comment that they are too Techno for an EBM audience and too dark—or too EBM—for a Techno audience. For me, however, it’s purely about the music and its impact, and in that respect, this record is nothing short of a sonic orgasm. Giorgio Ricci is above all a true musical genius in everything he gets involved in. (Rating:9).
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About Templezone
Templezone is the solo project of Italian musician Giorgio Ricci, known for his work in the electronic and industrial band Templebeat. He set up Templezone to pursue, in his own words, “new evocative sounds with a soundtrack style”, an approach he outlined in a 2017 Side-Line interview.
Ricci has stayed active across several projects, among them the post-punk group They Die and the minimalist electronic project Monosonik. Templezone, his solo outlet, has produced several albums, with the debut issued on FinalMuzik. The new self-released album “Electronic Body Set” builds a techno foundation reinforced with EBM and touches of trance.
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