ADN’ Ckrystall :: COD-ADN’ (Clogsontronics)

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(01.01.09) With the New Year, Clogsontronics are back with a new release. After their regime of re-issuing past releases, the Dutch label is returning with an all new outing: ADN’ Ckrystall and COD-ADN’. The 7″ and mini CD release features three new tracks of new wave minimal synth pop. On the crest of releases on Kenkrach and Vinyl-On-Demand ADN’ Ckrystall, aka Erick Moncollin, brings out some fresh stock with his own brand of cold wave electronics.

The EP opens with “Just A Coda.” The track blends icy synthesizers with despondent vocals to create a shimmering and uneasy work. “Mini-Romance” follows a similar synth path, moving into lackluster love combined with clinical cold wave melodies. “Rhino” finishes off the release. Moncollin pushes his analogue arsenal with a twisted synthesizer melody across light drums. As the track develops exhausted lyrics return to produce further cold despair amongst analogue warmth. The pieces encapsulate the lost solitude of the new wave, the loneliness of the modernist project, the angry of a war-less youth, all expressed through synthsizers and a forgotten indecipherable voice.

The COD-ADN’ EP is a piece of European new wave with all the alienation and feel of that continental condition. Lyrics and music are wrenched apart in such a way to bring them together in a dissociated collage of song and synth. The release marks an interesting twist for the Clogsontronics resurrection. Since the label’s return it has been re-issuing it’s past catalogue; COD-ADN’ is a new release and takes the imprint away from its sole repressing project into the realm of fresh output. This is exciting and dangerous for Clogsontronics. Yet, for the label to grow and expand it must be willing to move away from its back catalogue and into the realm of the unheard. With ADN’ Ckrystall the Clogsontronics are going in the right direction.

COD-ADN’ is out now on Clogsontronics

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