Haujobb - Dead Market FLAC download

How long has it been since Haujobb put anything new out, well I was still in my 20s... that's how long. One of the most high profile names out there and definitely one of the most scrutinized, Dejan and Daniel are always sure to divide their fanbase in a most polarizing way every time they release something. Myer's been off touring with Recoil and also joining the ranks of another big name, Covenant, during Haujobb's absence. As for Samardzic, his activities have been harder to ascertain but he has a soundcloud... with music on it the likes of which you aren't even prepared for. Here's to it's eventual release. Former member Bjorn Junemann put out his debut as Standeg in 2009 effectively re-writing the game book for methodically precise electro. Right, so that's 2003 til now covered. Here's the new single at long last.There aren't really any straws for the industrial/ebm crowd to grab on to with this one , if you liked the adventurous spirit of Ninetynine you're going be into what's going on with 'Dead Market'. Haujobb themselves, as always, provide the wildest mixes, the extended version of 'Dead Market' is stuffed to the gills with what I suspect are manually placed sounds deliberately contorted, manipulated and synthesized in very demanding ways. At last a finished (?) version of 'Letting the Demons Sleep' appears and completely obliterates the demo version they had gifted us previously. What the hell must it be like to sit down in a room and come up with this sort of thing, I'm awestruck at the meticulous attention to detail. Cross those t's dot those i's, and whatever you do never ignore the dashes. Absolute Body Control return the remix favor with a stripped down devil of a version. This thing is seamless and shiny and yet even it retains the new aesthetic which Haujobb are now exploring in their music: those wrong notes happen to be right, leave them in.Now I'm not one to mire myself in the past but the reason to really get amped up by this single is saved for the last mix: the engineer's dub which is executed by electronic studio legend/wizard/god PK. That's Paul Kendall, if you were wondering. Where have you heard him before? You of my generation, check those Ebb singles, check your Recoil albums as well. Blare your copy of The Digital Intervention. This is a cause for celebration, truly. That this man is involved with our two heroes is incredible. His mix, you ask? The sound? This guy has one hand behind his back and easily shows up everyone else on here, no you won't hear what he's done unless you immerse yourself in a headphone session but what he packs into this mix is as bizarrely entrancing as mercury let out of the bottle running this way and that on fallow ground. You may wish to just step aside and marvel at the composition of such an alien organism, I personally choose to get my hands dirty and go the tactile route, who cares if it's poisonous.'Dead Market' is merely a taster for their new album "New World March" that is due later this year and which, according to the band, will feature input from another maestro of eclectic technological symbiosis: HECQ. Blindingly brilliant times ahead, everyone. As they did with 'Solutions for a Small Planet', Haujobb are about to make another exponential leap into the void regardless of expectations or reactions. At long last they truly don't care what anyone thinks again, and it's a pleasure to be along even for a short while in their universe.

Unfortunately quite not what i expected. This has much more of an puristic Electro Monolith. I was expecting more kinda IDM Influences, as I remembered his work in some of his past releases.But it seems that Daniel Myer is pushing his IDM leanings completely into architect. If you like this form of 80th influenced Stuff, you are well served with it.

I have to start off and say, I hate electro industrial. Electro industrial is dead. I had such high hopes for this genre, as it permeated every aspect of my life from the early nineties until the turn of the century. However, as time went on, the genre again and again became trapped by its own vain expectations of what it should sound like, and whether future pop, noise or techno tinged, it became a homogenous mess of crap that I progressively lost patience with. That said, thank goodness for haujobb. Long live haujobb. Along with a mere handful of other artists, haujobb have consistently satisfied me as one of the few groups in this genre that actually lend it some much needed credibility. If anyone writes about this genre and its impact on music in 100 years time, I hope that Daniel Myer and co. are featured prominently. They take risks, they refine their sounds to create elegant razor tapestries, and yes, they deliver on the promise that lassigue bendthaus made to the genre so many years ago. Dead Market, of course, is the lead off single to their impending album "New World March." I remember reading some press for this where Daniel described the sound as more organic, with more analogue sounds, more guitar, etc, while maintaining that "future focus" that this band is so well known for. I did not doubt it, despite the potential for this description to result in an album sounding like the trash that Apoptygma Berserk has been putting out recently, if this track is any indication, new world march is not an 80ties nor Goth rock revival. In fact, I would say the retro elements invoke a much more subtle influence. Perhaps a pre-front by front era 242, a nitzer ebb flair, some vintage klinik, or a touch of portion control. If you only recognize the first two bands and not the latter two, then you ought to brush up on your history of EBM. This retro feel is still told through a very minimal lens, and this only works so well because the sounds chosen so perfectly compliment each other. drums that are buried deep in the mix, guitars that are mixed so well that they just enhance, not dominate (which, if you recall was similar praise heaped upon freeze frame reality when it was released) and just the right amount of bass synth and melody, which in this case, is a very sparing amount. The vocals are my favorite part however, as there is a real conviction behind Myer's delivery. After the excellent, but somewhat "safe" sounding vertical theory, it's nice to hear a fresh new take on the haujobb sound. I suspect this will polarize fans, much like less and the resulting ninetynine did a decade ago, but I for one welcome the fresh perspective. In a genre that is too much like the Wii: great potential, but too much damn shovel ware, dead market is a deep, fresh breath. Oh, and there's some remixes on here too. They are ok. I guess.