"Work or riot!" - This is the motto of Pascal Z, vocalist, machinist and programmer of the one-man commando ELITE!. This is why he, a Frenchman who was raised in Düsseldorf, has done mainly one thing during the past few months: hard electronic work. His third album with the powerful title "Totenkopf" supplies twelve slices of tough-minded EBM, the roots of which reach back deep into the 80s and extract pure energy from the glorious times of NITZER EBB, DIE KRUPPS and especially DAF. The steel-armoured, straight and rough ELITE! sound hammers out of the equipment and adds up to clear and solely German-language lyrics about the favoured topics of love, sex, work and muscles. Now and then, something sounds familiar, which is totally intended. The track "Der Eisentanz" for example is a great "Mussolini"-adaptation and the musical declaration of war "Volle Kraft Zurück" has to be taken as a sign of solidarity - not only regarding the title - with the above-mentioned cult band from the former neighbourhood of Düsseldorf. Despite all hardness, ELITE! maintains a healthy dose of humour and shares it with his EBM colleagues FRONTAL and EKOBROTTSMYNDIGHETEN, who contributed two remixes to the third ELITE! album.
100 per cent Electronic Body Music from the elite for the elite, to be released on 05.05.2009 and kindly supported by the long-established family business: Electric Tremor Dessau!
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