Black Strobe: Burn Your Own Church

blackstrobeWhile techno blatantly references metal (Vitalic, Justice), the floor is becoming a place to literally just bang your head and thrash around. And if that’s what you are looking for in an electronic record you found your joint. Rather than gritty machines and distortion soaked synths (which are all here too) Arnaud Rebotini uses heavy gain guitars, coming off as much like Ministry as EBM and club music. The first track on this record is a burner, in full Black Strobe fashion/tradition/ submission. Metal guitars with well produced pulsing, dinging and sub-base lines that should be blasted in order that you spit whiskey on someone’s tits under slow flashing lights. Arnaud Rebotini, alongside his new four-piece band do best on this record with phallic, dark industrial influence crossed with the motivation to be out on the floor all night. Strengths include amphetamine pissing energy, dirt-bag bass lines and mixed in organic drum fills with machines that make for more dynamic, rolling beats. “Buzz Buzz Buzz” is evil macabre techno, “Last Club on Earth” a beautiful NO style epic, and there are even Depechey piano ballads. Skip track 06, “I’m a Man”. Bo Diddley cover or not, who cares if you’re a man? It’s taken Black Strobe a long time to release a full-length record and Burn Your Own Church is multifaceted in its representation of club music. It varies nicely while staying heavy and mean and I can’t wait to see the shit live. Rebotini has become the Lemmy of techno and though this record might not be church burning, it’s definitely worth checking out :: Blackstrobe/Burn Your Own Church - Playlouderecordings/Beggars/Indigo.