Background/Info:
Hands
label has used to release this annual compilation, which is a look back at the
“Forms Of Hands”-festival each year reassembling some of their hottest bands.
Fourteen artists who contributed to the festival have been featured at this
sampler.
Content:
Even
if Hands remain one of the uncontested leading labels from the industrial music
scene, industrial music has seriously evolved. The music style has been
progressively, but severely contaminated by techno music, resulting in a
harder, darker and underground format of industrial-techno. Most of the
featured bands are clearly experimenting with techno while remaining faithful
to darker influences. But a few die-hard bands or call them ‘purists’ are still
into the familiar industrial format.
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+ + :
If you compare early “Forms Of Hands”-compilations with this latest one,
you only, but have to agree this is a label in progress. This is the new
standard of industrial-music, one that will bring people to dance a frenetic
way till reaching a state of trance. From the minimal-like techno format of
Supersimmetria to pure techno by Gatto Nero to an experimental format by Mono
No Aware to the sound intelligence of Geistform, the techno heads will be
ravished. Sans-Fin, Yura Yura and even Tomohiko Sagae bring us a more
‘classical’ industrial style.
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– – :
I sometimes ask myself what early Hands fans would think about this industrial
(R)evolution! I’m not sure it will please all fans.
Conclusion:
This
is the kind of sampler simply confirming each year again that the label from
Dortmund remains ‘the’ absolute reference in this kind of music!
Best
bands:
Geistform, Yura Yura, Sans-Fin, Katran, Heimstatt Yipotash, Talvekoidik.
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