Daniel Myer’s Liebknecht project titled Colossus delivers four solid slabs of dark yet danceable music for your listening. Each one works the steady ground of beats, bass and beeps with an added layer of grimy, oily atmospherics and soundscapes.
Like the bastard child of Jega and Monolake, weaving a dark tale of sound and fury pushing into the darkness
Daniel Myer’s Liebknecht project titled Colossus delivers four solid slabs of dark yet danceable music for your listening. Each one works the steady ground of beats, bass and beeps with an added layer of grimy, oily atmospherics and soundscapes. “Rhodos” opens the EP with a deft yet simple beat laying ground for the precise arpeggiated bass over which scrapes and screams of tortured samples roam as if searching for prey or escape. Colossus is straight up 4/4 electro with a heavy dose of EBM and industrial sensibility, enabling the listener to engage in the curious past time of foot-tapping while also wondering if they’re in a car chase scene from a movie. “Frankfurt” is the standout piece of the EP with a subtler approach to the drums and a nod to Berlin techno stylings, being heavier on reverb and atmospherics than the other tracks. “Voula” closes out the EP like the bastard child of Jega and Monolake, weaving a dark tale of sound and fury pushing into the darkness with sharp drums and screeching samples over deep, inky bass. A good extended player for night drives on dark city streets or what remains of the information superhighway after the umpteenth apocalypse.
Colossus is available on Mechatronica. [Bandcamp]
