Various Artists
Next Wave Acid Punx Deux - Chapter 2
Label: Eskimo
Genre: Electro / Electro-Rock
Availability
- LP x2 €30.99 Dispatched within 5-10 working days
Where the first Next Wave Acid Punx compilation was a personal journey for Luca, a lockdown inspired exploration of his record collection to find the thread that ran through the music that had soundtracked much of his life, DEUX is a celebration of that music let loose on the world, the thrill of music performed live, the smoke and strobe filled clubs you'll hear it in and the artists you'll find on those stages.
"After our enforced break, getting back out there and playing live again really brought home to me so much of what I love about the scene I'm in but also just how important live music has been and is to club culture over the years," Luca explains. "Too often we think of club nights and live gigs as these separate things, but throughout the years it's where the two meet, the friction that can cause, that you'll find the most vibrant scenes.
"There's an energy, an atmosphere that you get with live music, an unpredictability where at any moment something can go wrong or even better right in a way you never expect. I think about a live set we played at a Lebanese festival where our MPC drum machine froze up because of all the dust and sand trapped in the pads. We had to improvise half our set, jamming bass and guitar and pedal FX and vocals, embracing this surreal environment and experience, something that could only happen in the moment.
"Chapter 2 moves the night on, and this is the sound of the clubs I love to both play and just hang out in these days, clubs where the people involved put a lot more time into digging through the crates than working on their Instagram Reels. These are places where you're as likely to find a band on stage as you are a DJ, where 80's German electro pop by a band like Boytronic seamlessly flows into tracks like Silent Servant’s Non Fiction. Timeless music that can be romantic, dreamlike and ethereal one moment, then veer into dark, industrial sounds the next."“Then finally we get to that part of the night where you probably should go home but if it's too late for good decisions there's still time for good music. Things are a bit wilder here, the drums a bit harder, the synths are more aggressive, tracks like The Hacker's Monopoly, Zanias' Tryptamine Palace or EVA's Industrial Hope that don't let up, don't let you go, just subjugate you to the beat and keep you there till you stumble out blinking into a new day."
Tracks:
A1. Boytronic - Voloczny * A2. The KVB - SMll Warm (2023 version) A3. Cardinal & Nun - Freak And Weak * A4. Jennifer Touch - Altars * A5. Matrixxman - Assembly Line * B1. Silver Tears - Always Shine (Wait For The Rain) * B2. Essaie Pas - Retox B3. Aili x Transistorcake - Dansu B4. Years Of Denial - It Sucks C1. Dina Summer - Darkness * C2. Patriarchy - Suffer C3. Maelstrom & Louisahhh - Hate Machine * C4. Dame Area - Buon Ci[adino * C5. Kris Baha - Into The Dark D1. Desire - Love Races On *D2. Blind Delon feat. I Hate Models - Flashback * D3. Poison Point - Altered Beats * D4. Roe Deers - Muscles *