remember about the old united we stand, divided we fall slogan? punish yourself (cult movie, pink panther party…) and sonic area (insense, explore) probably had this in mind when they decided to join forces on a common record. phenomedia is not a classic split-album, or a collection of mutual remixes, but a full fusion of both musical universes - resulting in completely exclusive tracks, going far ahead of anything you would expect. influenced by hint, download, clint mansell, foetus, coil or the downward spiral, but mostly by the hypnotic power of mass media, arco (sonic area s mastermind) and vx cheerleader (py singer and programmer) tried to break all stylistic boundaries and restrictions, in a merciless attempt to decipher the real world or at least give some aural image of his morbid complexity. dense, nervous, sometimes hard to describe, phenomedia mixes cinematic orchestral atmospheres, dirty hip-hop, tribal industrial techno-punk, brutal wall of sounds, hard-glitch breaks and lush ambient soundscapes – and if you think it s too much, you re probably right ! this is a shamelessly noisy freaks parade announcing the nightmare before apocalypse : acid bass lines, explicit tv sampling, screaming saxophones, broken drum machines collapsing into moody organic percussions, melancholic piano arpeggios and cello, distorted blues guitar, suicide lullabies, whispers, incantations, rants… this is hard cut-up music for chaos lovers, topped with broken bits of post-industrial mythology – the roswell alien, kurt cobain, elvis presley, hakim bey, nikola tesla, jim jones, timothy leary, jf kennedy and many more unwilling guests. welcome to one of the most innovative, esoteric, poetic and pessimistic cyberpunk album ever recorded!!!
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