Breakdown of the club scene? The good old EBM bands have run out of gas? Total damage of the most electronic music labels and their programs, if you have a closer look? A.D.A.C. 828 and the ADAC (the General German Automobile Association) have about as much in common as binge drinking and pre-birth gymnastics. However, A.D.A.C. 828 will provide quick and reliable remedy... against the blahs coming from the bass box, against boredom in Electro-Germany! After their great debut "Straight On" and remixes for their Belgian fellows IONIC VISION and DARKMEN, the four A.D.A.C. 828 guys from Holzdorf in Saxony-Anhalt strike again with a new album - and they strike really hard with at least 120 bpm. They have knowingly placed the cornerstones of their music, Oldschool EBM and Electropunk, far from each other so that there was more space to let off steam than it is common in this genre: The vocal shouts are clear and come about in two voices and three languages. The sound structures are made from steel, at once simple and functional, then double-welded and dangerously barbed. The mood changes from playful to aggressive and sometimes there is a violent fight which comes along with slaughtering sequencer sounds and kicking drums. Without obsessively counting on the common clichés, the "Boys from the Factory" of "Love, Hate 'n' Rage" combine everything that the hard-boiled EBM front expects from a modern EBM production, and even more - a pinch of the real Swedish feeling.
|
