Labels: Zero State Media
Review by: Captain Fidanza
This is interesting.
This appears to be part of something based in part upon Filippo Marinetti’s Futurist Manifesto of 1909, a series of decrees which sought to put an end to Italian art’s preoccupation with the past and create a new mode of thinking based upon things like youth and technology. Anybody visiting last summers Vorticist show at Tate Britain will have seen the British equivalent spearheaded by Wyndham Lewis who encapsulated the movement beautifully with a manifesto of his own published as BLAST magazine.
This here compilation suffers somewhat by initially promising to be something new, violent and dangerous, but soon falling into tired musical cliché with mechanised voices making thinly-veiled threats over surprisingly mainstream industrial music.
I would recommend Dan Deacon’s “Spiderman of the Rings” or A.R.E. Weapons’ self-titled album as decent alternatives to this; though these albums are nine and five years old respectively, they are both infinitely closer to the Futurist ideal of speed, machinery and youth than the music featured here.