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30.11.2024 - Mexican Electronic Music Explorers Ford Proco Return with “Combustion Alfanumerica” LP

Born in the vibrant streets of Tijuana in 1987, Ford Proco began as an experimental project, crafting soundscapes from improvised instruments, found objects, and tape loops. Their early work embraced chaos and cut-up techniques, reflecting their boundary-pushing ethos. By 1991, Lauro Saavedra and Robert Castañeda emerged as the band’s creative core, driving its evolution forward. Over the next 37 years, their releases—comprising cassettes, compilations, and three influential albums—found audiences both locally and internationally. In the early ’90s, amidst Baja’s underground rave revolution, Ford Proco shifted its focus, channeling that raw energy into anthems that reverberated through underground dance floors, solidifying their legacy.

Often buried in the meticulous madness of their creative process, Ford Proco’s duo fixates on perfecting beats, bending progressions, and dissecting sound with obsessive precision. Recently, they have unearthed and reimagined their early tape work, merging it with modern programming to ignite their latest offering, Combustión Alfanumérica. Inspired by the disorder of today’s world, the album channels dystopia through sound, slipping seamlessly between dream pop, mutant electro, meta ambient, and synth-driven body music.

The largely instrumental tracks on Combustión Alfanumérica pulse with precision and purpose, a seamless collision of motorik rhythms and cerebral exploration. It’s dance music for dreamers, where movement meets thought, and every beat carries a deliberate weight. Cinematic in its scope and deeply reflective, the album’s gothic tones hold a quiet romance, entwined within its robotic reverberations. There’s a raw humanity here, emotional yet detached, skimming just above hyperreality—close enough to feel, distant enough to question. Rejecting the limits of genre, Ford Proco’s Autoconst style stands resolute, recalling the forward-thinking experimentation of Future Sound of London, Bruce Haack, Air, Stereolab, and Coil.

The video for Obreros del Silencio unfolds like a fever dream of fractured time, blending the mechanical bleakness of Metropolis with a chaotic collision of imagery. Robotic dystopia intertwines with raw performance, while stock footage of battles and surreal fragments dart across the screen. It’s a relentless montage, where humanity’s darkest impulses clash with its search for meaning, creating a vivid reflection of turmoil and time’s unraveling.

Combustión Alfanumérica thrums with Ford Proco’s restless energy, its sharp filters and unforgettable hooks delivering a distinct punch. Collaborations elevate the album: Ul4lume of Casino Shanghai lends her soulful warmth to “El Instante Previo,” while Javier Cortez and Angela Bloem add layered depth to “Piel de Angel.” The eerie echoes of “Human Bomb” reverberate like fragments of a fractured timeline, blending distorted samples with retrofuturistic synths to create a chilling atmosphere.

Listen to Combustion Alfanumerica below and order here. The album is out now via At At Records.

Combustion Alfanumerica by Ford Proco

The album’s cover art is a surrealist collage by Steven Stapleton (Nurse with Wound), complemented by a sleek new Ford Proco logo and design by Acamonchi.

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30.11.2024 - Twin Peaks and David Lynch Tribute Band FYT! Release Spellbinding “Sycamore Trees” EP

My prayer is to linger with you
At the end of the day in a dream that’s divine
My prayer is a rapture in blue
With the world far away
And your lips close to mine
In 2017, as the last echoes of Twin Peaks: The Return filled the air, Devery Doleman and bassist/vocalist Julie Rozansky conjured a supergroup to channel the eerie, atmospheric ballads of Julee Cruise and Angelo Badalamenti for a Halloween show. The night buzzed with an unexpected energy—what started as a single homage ignited into something unstoppable: Fuck You, Tammy! Riding that initial jolt, they plunged deeper into David Lynch’s dreamlike universe, gathering a devoted crowd drawn to their otherworldly sound.

Now, Fuck You, Tammy!—Devery Doleman, Julie Rozansky, Nate Smith, Bill Ferullo, Blaise Dahl, and Anthony Cekay—unleash an EP containing four familiar Lynchian lullabies: Sycamore Trees, My Prayer, Shadow and Falling.

Doleman’s voice slips through the air like a ghostly wisp, bearing the ethereal charm of Chrystabell—the singer whose spectral role in The Return sparked the band’s name. Her voice moves like mist, cool and serene, a quiet presence that drifts yet never quite settles. There’s a distant beauty to it, a sound that seems tethered to some half-seen world, echoing with a wistful softness, as though it were remembering something lost. It beckons, then fades, always lingering just beyond reach, leaving listeners with a sense of something fragile and fleeting. It feels like an invitation, a soft plea that fills the silence with mystery and longing. Her voice hovers between realms, delicate and ungraspable, a sound that pulls you close while keeping its secrets hidden. It is not merely a voice; it is a presence, floating somewhere between the known and the unknowable, hauntingly familiar, yet forever elusive.

Fuck You Tammy’s rendition of Sycamore Trees draws you into a world where certainty slips away—a dark, shifting place without firm edges. The familiar blurs and vanishes, leaving Doleman’s voice as your sole guide, drifting deeper into the unknown. It feels like stepping into a dim corridor, lit by flickering monitors, each pulse pulling you under a hypnotic spell.

“Our live arrangement developed over years of playing shows, and had grown into something so beautiful that it made me have to make this record,” says Doleman. “You take me for a walk/ under the Sycamore Trees” is, to me, about being led into a space of potentially terrifying or sublime transformation, much like the experience of entering world of a Lynch film: I wanted the song to be that invitation, and it’s the portal to the world of the rest of the record. I envisioned the expansiveness of a Bond theme with the menace of Portishead – and instead of being in the hermetic space of the Red Room, I wanted you to follow her into the dark woods, and there she encounters the saxophone solo- the ghostly presence that is waiting for her. The layered guitars and meticulously controlled feedback with the synths evoke the dark woods – the grand piano, the stars overhead, and far, far away. The original is beautiful and feels like someone telling a sad and terrible story – ours is that story unfolding in real-time.”

Their take on My Prayer by The Platters floats somewhere between the earthly and the ethereal, lifting the original into a ghostly realm. Faithful yet otherworldly, it shimmers just out of reach. Then comes their cover of Chromatics’ Shadow, starting with a haunting string arrangement and swelling into something grander. The driving backbeat pulses with an early ’80s rock energy, more expansive, almost anthemic, transforming the original’s stoic grace into a sweeping journey.

The EP concludes with a reimagined Falling by Julee Cruise. Where the original grounds us firmly in Twin Peaks, FYT breathes new life into it with a synthpop twist—faster, more electric, strangely danceable, channeling LCD Soundsystem more than, say, The Man From Another Place. The track trades the dreamlike drift of the past for a rhythm that pulses forward, creating a headspace that feels both nostalgic and thrillingly new. And yes – there’s saxophone.

Listen to Sycamore Trees below or order here.

Sycamore Trees by Fuck You, Tammy!

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30.11.2024 - Orkus! event tip: MOTTENTANZ-FESTIVAL

Traveling to Switzerland on September 27, 2025 is particularly worthwhile for black hearts. That’s because a new event series by MOTTENTANZ is taking place in Aarau. “The Last Exit for the Lost I – The Concert Night” celebrates the goth and death rock scene and creates a platform for both up-and-coming and established artists. The […]

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30.11.2024 - ReView: Fake Youth Cult – White Light / Black Noise

Fake Youth Cult Album: White Light / Black Noise Category: Dark Electro / Techno Label: Shipwrec Records Release Date: 2024-03-25 Author: River Atkinson (RioTDS) [..]