Search - Terence Fixmer :: Muscle Machine

The resurrection of true EBM - 242/Nitzer/DAF fans will be p

Konrad Rode | Cape Town, South Africa | 09/26/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Think Front By Front / Tyranny >For You< -era Front 242 slash That Total Age / Belief -era Nitzer Ebb with the razor-sharp edge of Electronic Body Music's [...]-son-Techno, with generous helpings of DAF and even early Front Line Assembly.



Think blackness and constant strobe digitising all movement in a testosterone-fuelled futuristic battlefield of pre-programmed soldiers relentlessly gaining ground against some vast enemy, marching and terminating in absolute determination and through sheer will power. This is what it feels like to hear Fixmer's synth rhythm rip through your chest and pound your bowels.



Besides Cyber-Tec's self-titled EP, this is what EBM-heads* have been waiting for since 1992. Fixmer is the new ambassador of EBM, all hail his French Greatness!



Superb tracks: Electrostatic, Electric Vision, Shout, Across the Gate, Rage, Out in the Space and of course, Body Pressure. If the album consisted of these tracks only, I'd give it 5 stars without reservation. All tracks are pretty much instrumental, with chants provided by voice samples.



*I'm excluding what goths term EBM - you know, that 3rd generation dark synth-goth Cleopatra label stuff. I mean really!"