Videodrones - Nattens Hævn

El Paraiso
(EPR041)
Release date: 07/21/2017
Genre: Electronic

$8.00

1. The Jugular Gate

2. Maniac City

3. Institute

4. Dream Within A Dream

5. Hero

6. A Column

7. Mørkets Rædsler

8. Night Dome

9. Gate 2

10. A Blade In Your Mind

11. Domains

12. Shape Shifter

13. Nattens Hævn

All tracks written by Jakob Skøtt and Kristoffer Ovesen.

2nd album from Danish synth-improv duo Videodrones, dives deeper their brand of throbbing synth themes from the goriest movies that never was.

It’s easy to hear the starting point of Videodrones: From italian composers such as Fabio Frizzi, Marcello Giombini, Riz Ortolani - or even Morricone & Alessandroni at their most industrial. But Videodrones adds a touch of previously unheard madness to their Giallo-themed synth-gasms. Based largely on improvisation, Videodrones tosses and turns - it’s like the thing is ALIVE: leaving slimy trail of electronic musical styles in their wake: there’s toxic levels of italio disco, german kosmiche musik, new age, even some stabs at holy grails of 70’s and 80’s pop. The record culminates in a Synth-proto-doom track - Nattens Hævn (Revenge of the Night): too weird to live, yet too rare to die.

Videodrones improvisations are far from boring: chopped into smaller bits the album is of a suite-like nature - keeping the odd, jagged energy of improvisation, every part adds to a whole, larger narrative. The result is a suite-like walkthru, often changing pace, dropping notes or drifting in scale. The images Videodrones convey is collectedly strangely solemn - almost uplifting at times, in their maddening state of constant synth flux.