Organicarma - Under Duality
EBM/Techno
Album
12 September 2011
Acustronic
71%

Notes/Review:

 

Organicarma is an electronic music collective based in Miami whose live shows blend futuristic electronic devices with kinetic art visuals. Their music is a little more old-fashioned; merging Front 242-style electronic body music with punky vocals and trancey rhythms.

With the bizarrely named dhArma111 providing beats and vocals and phAxas123 the rest, the band's debut 'Under Duality' strides powerfully between the above mentioned electronic genres, pulsing with moody cyber-bass, clattering percussion and pounding beats.

Under Duality works best when, whichever of the duo provides female vocals, offers that interesting juxtaposition between the soft, but forceful, feminity of the vocal and male brutality of the beats and harsh electronics. A couple of tracks work particularly well in this respect and are ripe for download.

A second disc of remixes (including DJ Spooky) adds further value for money.

Although classed as a futuristic act, Organicarma are not. Under Duality is a little more than a contemporary update on the industrial/electro dance music of the nineties. Very well produced, it should go down well in the right places - so well worth looking into for DJs looking for some fresh sounds.