(2021) VA - Soul Jazz Records presents Cold Wave #1


Review:
These first artists created new electronic musical landscapes as well as pursuing a stubborn D-I-Y aesthetic, often releasing material on cassette and pioneering use of lo-fi technology, primitive drum machines and home-recording techniques. As part of this continued evolution today many of the artists featured here also self-release their own material, run labels, publish fanzines, or are part of wider musical collectives. Aside from the first electronic, no wave, and post-punk artists cited as influences –Suicide, Patrick Cowley, The Normal, Martin Hannett, Laurie Anderson, Public Image – this new generation of artists also show an exquisitely open source of electronic and disparate influences, everything from Underground Resistance to Purcell from Scientist to New Beat and more besides. Most of the featured artists are based in Europe and include Krikor, Dissemblance and VQOA from France, De Ambassade from the Netherlands, Moisture from Sweden, Kriedler from Germany, Céline Gillain and Carcass Identity from Belgium. One exception is FIT Siegel out of Detroit, connecting the electronic pathways of Europe to the Motor City.
All of the bands featured here make distinctive contemporary music out of the 80s roots of the first cold wave movement.





Track Listing:
1. Dissemblance – Capture (3:33)
2. Carcass Identity – Reflexion Ocean (5:27)
3. FIT Siegel – Wayne County Stomp (4:15)
4. De Ambassade – Standhouden (3:33)
5. Wang Inc. – Approdo (5:20)
6. Krikor Kouchian – Niños Matadores (3:15)
7. Céline Gillain – Fight or Flight (5:28 )
8. Kreidler – Kannibal (5:41)
9. Gammut – Moisture (7:14)
10. Violent Quand On Aime – Of Course I’m A Liar (3:26)


Media Report:
Genre: compilation, electronic
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits