Bigod 20 - Body & Energize
Label:
Catalog#:
chapter 1 program 6, ZYX 5834
Format:
Vinyl, 12"
Country:
Germany
Released:
1988
Genre:
Electronic
Style:
EBM,
Industrial
Credits
Artwork By -
Gyrating Graphoholic, The
Engineer - Tommy Schmitt*
Mixed By - Masters Of Patience, The
Photography - Ra/Hen
Producer, Written-By - Talla 2XLC
Engineer - Tommy Schmitt*
Mixed By - Masters Of Patience, The
Photography - Ra/Hen
Producer, Written-By - Talla 2XLC
Notes
Excerpt from notes on the back cover:
"Bigod 20 is
The Bigod (words of truth) & Jallokin (sequencers of what?)
These songs are taken from the forthcoming album
*Steelworks* and dedicated to the German beer
which removed my timidity & invigorated my voice"
(None of the tracks was really included on the album, released four years later.)
"Bigod 20 is
The Bigod (words of truth) & Jallokin (sequencers of what?)
These songs are taken from the forthcoming album
*Steelworks* and dedicated to the German beer
which removed my timidity & invigorated my voice"
(None of the tracks was really included on the album, released four years later.)
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Reviews & Discussion
This record drives the sound ideals of EBM to the maximum: beats that hit hard on the dancefloor and synths that cut the air. These tracks were made in 1988 by the prolific, multi-talented Talla2XLC, this time in connection with Jallokin, during the big times of New Beat in Belgium and its counterpart in Germany (always a bit more EBM-oriented, more underground and dubbed Aggrepo by Talla himself); but a good amount of all other New Beat/Aggrepo whatsoever, as much as I love it, sounds frustratingly tame after having played this one in a set. Extremely sharp and well-produced synths set Body To Body apart, and I wonder why these techniques were not used so often on more melodious tunes. Here both tunes are as non-melodic as it gets; Body To Body compensates it with sounding wild and chaotic while being danceable all along; Energize is (almost) pure rhythm - slower, even funky, instrumental, and again with a razorblade production.
