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release:
artist....: Staatseinde
album.....: Artificial Renaissance
type......: album
source....: WEB/MP3
tracks....: 8
label.....: Wave Tension Records
store date: 2025-04-22
catalogue#:
encoder...: LAME3.99r
quality...: 320 kbps / 44100Hz / Joint stereo
URL.......: https://open.qobuz.com/album/n3z5leucte7fa
genre.....: Electronic
genres....:
- synthpop
- new wave
- ndw
- electronic
- electro
- e.b.m
- Utrecht
similar...:
- The Force Dimension
- Die Anstalt
- Kaboutertje Putlucht
- De Likt
- Plague Pits
artist links :
bandcamp : https://staatseinde.bandcamp.com/
discogs : https://www.discogs.com/artist/1855311
spotify : https://open.spotify.com/artist/3J4naeNeXCdeiDicpCsPHO
deezer : https://www.deezer.com/artist/13098279
official homepage: http://staatseinde.com/
apple : https://music.apple.com/gb/artist/1275862449
tidal : https://tidal.com/artist/10327300
last.fm : https://www.last.fm/music/Staatseinde
release links:
bandcamp : https://staatseinde.bandcamp.com/album/artificial-renaissance
tracklist.:
- [ 01. Space Scream 03:09.05 ]
- [ 02. Tanzverbot 04:02.13 ]
- [ 03. Suicide Tuesday 03:23.64 ]
- [ 04. The Trip 03:57.29 ]
- [ 05. Freight 03:43.82 ]
- [ 06. Une Mémoire Sans Fin 03:41.24 ]
- [ 07. Mutant Whispers 04:05.76 ]
- [ 08. The Mansion 04:53.03 ]
comment...: |
Welcome to the era of "Artificial Renaissance". Humanity and technology
stand at a crucial and fundamental intersection. Echoing past cultural
revolutions in a modern, technologically advanced world, everything is
set to be redefined—our lives, our thoughts, and the way we move
forward.Dutch EBM/synth duo Staatseinde returns with “Artificial
Renaissance”, an electrifying new mini-album set for a vinyl release on
May 20th via Wave Tension Records. Fusing the urgency of classic EBM
with the boldness of futuristic synth-punk, the band crafts an
interstellar sonic journey fueled by pulsating rhythms and dystopian
narratives.Album opener "Space Scream", a bombastic witch house-inspired
space punk anthem, paints a cinematic picture of cosmic warfare,
self-destruction, and rebellion. Inspired by a cancelled show experience
during Good Friday’s dancing ban, "Tanzverbot" pulses with rebellious
energy and explores the struggle between restriction and liberation,
reflecting on feeling trapped before finally breaking free: on the
dancefloor. Euphoria fades into "Suicide Tuesday", a haunting dive into
post-club despair, channeling dark 80s nostalgia through shimmering
synths in a dreamlike limbo between ecstasy and emptiness. Creeping
under the skin with its hypnotic, ominous drive, "The Trip" unravels
themes of environmental collapse and silent control, as humanity drifts
toward an inevitable end, unable to turn the looming disaster.The album
continues with "Freight", an epic voyage with a cinematic Italo-Disco
pulse, wrapped in a space-travel narrative. Hinting at themes of
exploitation, migration, neo-colonization and the relentless push for
'progress' at any cost. The band's first French track, "Une Mémoire Sans
Fin", is a sleek and euphoric dancefloor banger exploring the seductive
grip of artificial intelligence revealing a world where algorithms
manipulate human emotions. The fast-paced electro banger "Mutant
Whispers" with its 90s drum-n-bass pulse, celebrates diversity and
gender fluidity and transforms the dancefloor into a space of unity,
resistance, and unapologetic self-expression.The journey is closed by
"The Mansion", a hypnotic synth-porn track, built on analogue machines,
blending dadaist mumbling with danceable grooves where words are lost in
interference, leaving an eerie sense of miscommunication.With
“Artificial Renaissance”, Staatseinde ventures into unexplored sonic
territory, using AI, expanding the boundaries of their lyrics, balancing
artificial futuristic aesthetics with raw human emotions. As the lines
between past and future blur, their pulsating music reminds us: the new
age is already here.
biography.: |
From Wave to EBM, from NDW to Punk and everything else in and out of the
box. It is like going to the club meeting up with Kraftwerk on speed and
The Sex Pistols on Acid. Staatseinde creates a theatrical mix of pulsing
electro with nostalgic hopeful synth lines, all performed live with
synthesizers, a sequencer and tantalizing vocals. Over the years,
reaching back as far as 2006, Staatseinde played many shows, in varying
line-ups. With performances from the club circuits and at festivals from
the Netherlands biggest music festival Zwarte Cross to Leipzigs’ Gothic
Pogo, from places like Swedish post-punk / wave festival Kalabalik på
Tyrolen to the Berlin club Urban Spree. Art spaces, squads, club venues,
night clubs,… They can handle it all and fire it up. In recent years
they have released work on Enfant Terrible (NL), Kernkrach (DE), Onrijn
(NL), Lo Phi Forms (NL), Medical Records LLC (USA) and 4MG (SK). Three
12” records, two 7” singles, a CD, cassettes and several tracks appeared
on compilations. In 2010 their Dutch song ‘Ruimtevaart Vooruit’ became a
small but world wide dance floor underground hit, all pushed by a remix
version by Rude66. STAATSEINDE IS: Der Neo – vocals, synth Andy Dufter –
Sequencing, synth, vocals