Xeno and Oaklander

I wont hide it..I'm so fucking psyched about this event..At last it s happening!!! ROAAAAAARRRR AAAAAHAHAHSDHHHHA!!!!!!!
Raw electro/minimal synth event in Budapest!!! in the abundance of french electro DJ gigs and recently dead nu rave, miserable breakbeat (except the queen of beats Ludmilla) this is a real refreshment in this city.. and who is coming? The pioneers of minimal synth genre Xeno and Oaklander from Brooklyn, whose member has his own project Martial Canterel that is also going to be shown..both prodigies of Brooklyn's Weird Recordings.. 2 flies in one hit..in Roham bar, July 16th under the organisation of the promising party series Kuss Mich.
Xeno and Oaklander made two LPs and their main motto is to make music with only analogue instruments AND everything live, nothing should be recorded. thumbs up to the example of the DIY art in its most complicated form.


their entity of off key synthesizers, Liz Wedelbo's polyglot singing and Sean McBride's reciting flows you into the world of dark and scarce caves, German post punk clubs, Brooklyn streets and horror movies from late 60s.Repressed traumas and fears come to life, you enjoy and suffer, tap tap, you dance...clap clap!!!!
Lets not mix this genre with EBM or goth wave,.. this is more subtle, profound and gentle in a way. as if they were cousins of Kraftwerk who took more drugs and had fucked up relationships.





I was and still am overwhelmed with this song, I dont know what Liz is sharing with us in French, but in me it evokes rapture of peaking on enhancers on the dance floor, the ecstasy of an upcoming orgasm but you want to hold on a bit more for the longer lasting effect, the rage when someone messes around with you..all of that while listening to this:




The next one is the hymn to gods, ghosts, dead people who besiege your dreams and unconsciousness..they sing to you. it s up to you how to deal with them..
You may notice around 3:20 that there are soo many sounds, synthesizer layers fighting, overlapping and matching each other, and instead of sounding terribly messy it sounds so fucking harmonic.. well done mr Mcbride.




Speaking of McBride, he has this project called Martial Canterel which he will also present at Roham bar. the video was made by Liz and this is how he sounds:



How will he combine all these synthesizers and samples in live performance we will yet see..im sure he ll be brilliant.. im counting days and nights until this gig!!