Rave, by The Empire Line

Rave

by The Empire Line

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Stéfan Németh Abrasive and anxiety-inducing avant-noise gem, gracefully welding techno-industrial, ambient and power electronics with darker atmospherics. A statement of direction and purpose from Northern Electronics, a nosedive into the dense and sticky blackness of contemporary raver culture and its decadent, subterranean overtones of hypersexuality and secrecy. Quintessential digital vitalism. Favorite track: Music for Catwalks.

Lilly Deupré pleadingly until ripped apart Favorite track: Herrensauna.

Hamnet H This made me want to have unsafe sex. And raise Gucci children. Favorite track: Fast Forward (Intet glemt, intet tilgivet).

Andrey Bauer Masterpiece. Every track is perfect. Favorite track: Music for Catwalks.

Camryn Marquez This is probably the best thing that Northern Electronics has released. The music is dramatic, flamboyant, and moody but does not fall over itself because there is a degree of minimalism that tempers the compositions. It builds a beautiful and emotional arc, combining and elevating euphoria and hedonism beyond any ephemera of grotesque gluttony. It is primal and pressurized cathexis and feels lasting, extending beyond the rave, the k-hole, the lustful wanting of flesh, and humanity’s failure to maintain dialectic with the poetical and it’s success in being confined to the machinations of a factory flesh. Favorite track: Music for Catwalks.

Silas Kirschke Schöner, innovativer Techno! Favorite track: Music for Catwalks.

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The Empire Line present six cyclonic episodes for confined spaces on their debut album, 'Rave.'

Comprised of Posh Isolation's Christian Stadsgaard (Damien Dubrovnik, Vanity Productions), Jonas Rönnberg (Varg), and with Isak Hansen (Iron Sight) on tantrums, the trio's marauding live shows have been translated into a slippery set of pummelling techno works, watermarked with florid noise.

'Rave' is a celebration of contemporary rave culture, focused on the everlasting and transcendent as the night slips out past the day. With living-for-the-weekend hedonism irretrievably converted into a manicured, violent cliché, building new worlds and forging new modes of intimacy takes an exceptional sincerity. Naming some of the crews closest to The Empire Line in the album's titles, their spaces are examples of just how rave culture persists as a transgressive stronghold in people's lives.

Ranging from k-hole anthems to jacking, close-range sessions, 'Rave' still bears the traces of the group's experimental background, ensuring the tension is kept up through the catharsis

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released February 19, 2018

Recorded in Stockholm, Copenhagen & Berlin 2017
The Empire Line is Jonas Rönnberg, Isak Hansen & Christian Stadsgaard
Photography by George Nebieridze
Mastered by Neel At EnissLab, Rome

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