Equitant - Retrospekt 2008-2013 // Now Available @ iTunes

Equitant - Retrospekt 2008-2013 // Now Available @ iTunes

Equitant – Retrospekt 2008/2013 Review @ Side-Line Magazine

This review is a bit special to me since Stephane Froidcoeur (Side-Line) is pretty much responsible/suggested getting Equitant signed with EKP. Thanks for your support and strong belief in Equitant Stephane! Op uw gezondheid!

Equitant – Retrospekt 2008/2013 Review (CD Album – EK Product)

Posted on 26/12/13
Genre/Influences: Minimal EBM.

Content: The name of Equitant doesn’t maybe say that much to you, but in just a couple of years it simply became one of Side-Line’s favorite contemporary EBM projects. The reason why you don’t know Equitant yet maybe is because this American project only released digital material.

Equitant is a Texan based minimal-EBM project set up by Raymond D. Heflin. Next to Equitant, Heflin also runs the digital label Black Montanas, which is mainly devoted to the same kind of EBM and a truly passion for analogue gear. This album must be a kind of consecration for this talented composer who finally found a home at EK Product to release his ‘old’ songs on CD format. “Retrospekt 2008/2013” doesn’t bring anything new for all of those who know Equitant and who’re familiar with the discography. But on the other hand it’s pure lust to get all these songs on one disc.

Equitant clearly sounds like a sound bridge between good-old 80s EBM influences and contemporary body-minimalism. The songs might remind you of other artists like Terence Fixmer and Adam-X. there’s a similar taste for minimalism and the love for 80s elements. The cold, analogue atmosphere recovering the songs will for sure evoke good-old souvenirs. The production of the vocals is another typical element reminding me of the golden decade of early EBM. Next to Ray Heflin singing on several tracks you’ll hear a few familiar Equitant-guests like Lea X, Yasmin Gate, Stephan Busche and Bastian.

Getting back to the music you sometimes will recognize elements of DAF and analogue manipulations à la Kraftwerk. The songs often sound simple and repetitive, but the global production simply sounds powerful and murderously efficient.

Equitant has selected some of their finest songs and I here will tip essential cuts like “Dynamique” (English and a French version), Das Menschlicherennen (for all DAF fans), Flash Of Light, “Dynamism” and “Body Vehement”. There’s no real break on this album, but a non-stop energy and dynamism! The choruses are often carried by cold leads bringing EBM-lovers to a state of ultimate excitement. The coldness of the body-songs is often joined by the sterile, but sensual half spoken – half sung vocals of both female guest singers. Equitant sounds hot and sexy and yet that cold and irresistible.

Conclusion: I’ve already heard several essential albums this year, but “Retrospekt 2008/2013” definitely is the last one to add to this selected list of ‘finest records of 2013’. This is a great and pure vintage EBM records releases by one of the last –and still not that renowned genius in the genre!

Best songs: “Dynamique”, Das Menschlicherennen, Flash Of Light, “Dynamism”, “Body Vehement”, Let Me Be On”, “Mekanik”, “Di Minantz Di Inferni”.

Rate: (DP:9) DP.

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Equitant – Retrospekt 2008/2013 @ Side-Line Magazine // BEST OF 2013!

*From Side-Line Magazine // BEST OF 2013

We this year again got an impressive number of promo material. 562 reviews were made and posted all over the year (!!!)

So here's my 'best of 2013', which is a selection of 50 releases (only full length albums) among the promo material we got. It of course remains a very subjective selection of EBM, dark-electro, synth-pop, techno-body, dark-ambient, ethereal, ritual, industrial, powernoise, IDM, gothic and related music releases.

Thankxxx to all labels, artists, promo agencies and of course to our readers!

Here's my list:
01- Skinny Puppy – Weapon (CD Album – Metropolis)
02- Geomatic / Lagowski – Cosmochemistry (Digital Album – Strange Place)
03- Equitant – Retrospekt 2008/2013 (CD Album – EK Product)
04- Cervello Elettronico – Anima Meccanica (CD Album – Hands)
05- Tzolk’in – The Sixth Sun (CD Album – Ant-zen)
06- Triangular Ascension – The Chronos Anomaly (CD Album – Cyclic Law)
07- Virgins O.R Pigeons – Gotta Get Mad (DCD Album – Alfa-Matrix)
08- Mesh – Automation Baby (CD Album – Dependent)
09- Nullgrad – Seeds (CD Album – Hands)
10- Autodafeh – Blackout Scenario (CD Album – Scanner/Dark Dimensions)
11- Interface – The Perfect World (CD Album – Nilaihah Records)
12- Adeonesis – The Rite Of Our Cross (CD Album – Advoxya Records)
13- Hydra Division V – Ostracized (CD Album – Artificial Sun)
14- Vestigial – Solar/Aeon (CD Album – Cyclic Law)
15- Manasuna – Breath Beyond (CD Album – Rage In Eden)
16- Shock Frontier – Mancuerda Confessions (CD Album – Malignant Records)
17- T.O.M.B. – ThirdWave Holocaust (CD Album – Black Plagve Records/Malignant Records)
18- Machine Rox – Shout (CD Album – Static Distortion Records)
19- Delete – Predatory Things Of A Minute (CD Album – Mindtrick Records)
20- Juno Reactor – The Golden Sun Of the Great East (CD Album – Metropolis Records)
21- Atiq & Enk – Fear Of The Unknown (CD Album – Tympanik Audio/Mindtrick Records)
22- Front Line Assembly – Echogenetic (CD Album – Dependent)
23- Zeromancer – Bye-Bye Borderline (CD Album – Trisol)
24- Orange Sector – Vorwärts Nach Weit (CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
25- Slave Republic – Quest For Love (CD Album – Accession Records)
26- X-Fusion – What Remains Is Black (CD Album – Scanner)
27- Funker Vogt – Companion In Crime / Limited Edition (DCD Album – Out Of Line)
28- VNV Nation – Transnational (CD Album – Anachron Sounds)
29- Zeromancer – Something For The Pain / The Best Of (DCD Album – Trisol)
30- Staubkind – Wo Wir Zu Hause Sind / Akustik Tour – Live (CD Album + DVD – Out Of Line)
31- Techdiff – P.Conv (CD Album – Ad Noiseam)
32- Project Pitchfork – Black (CD Album – Trisol)
33- Blutengel – Monument (CD Album – Out Of Line)
34- Freakangel – The Ones To Fall (DCD Album – Alfa-Matrix)
35- Frontier Guards – Interface (CD Album – Aliens Production/Signifier)
36- Meinhard – Beyond Wonderland (CD Album – Out Of Line)
37- Ayria – Plastic Makes Perfect (DCD Album – Alfa-Matrix)
38- Junksista – Bad Case Of Fabulous (DCD Album – Alfa-Matrix)
39- SN-A – Transmissions (CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
40- Autoclav1.1 – Portents Call (CD Album – Tympanik Audio)
41- Amduscia – Filofobia (DCD Album – Out Of Line)
42- Daemonia Nymphe – Psychostasia (CD Album – Prikosnovénie)
43- Parzival – Die Kulturnacht (CD Album – Euphonious/VME)
44- Abandoned Asylum – Derelicts Of Distant Hope (CD Album – Malignant)
45- Pouppée Fabrikk – The Dirt (DCD Album – Alfa-Matrix)
46- Disharmony – Room 78 (CD Album – Tympanik Audio)
47- Pröjekt F – Skins (CD Album – Pröjekt F)
48- Solar Fake – Reasons To Kill (CD Album – Synthetic Symphony/SPV)
49- Signal Aout 42 – Inspiration (CD Album – Out Of Line)
50- Embryoid – Dead Cells (CD Album – Advoxya Records)

See you again at the end of 2014... (Stéphane Froidcoeur)
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Equitant - Operative EP 2014

First up for 2014! Equitant - Operative EP BM126 (Black Montanas) 2 tracks of cold, raw, analog, 1980's inspired body music...

"Operative" cover art (pictured below) will feature self portrait photography by Diana GM (Ave Muerta) avemuerta.tumblr.com. Release date: TBA // Format: Digital // Free download.

Equitant - Retrospekt 2008-2013 // Digipak design

Equitant - Retrospekt 2008-2013 (Digipak design) Layout by: Equitant, EKP & Ted Tringo.

Electro Generator Group - To Believe (Equitant Remix) Teaser

Electro Generator Group - To Believe (Equitant Remix) Teaser // Coming soon on Dancefloor Killers // With remixes by: Al Ferox, Jonathann Cast, Delectro, Radical G, The Horrorist, Equitant and more.

The Horrorist DJ Set - December 11 2013 // Including Kontravoid - Impurities (Equitant Remix)

Oliver Chesler included my remix for Kontravoid in his Dj-set @ Bossa Nova - Bushwick, Brooklyn NY. The Horrorist DJ Set - December 11 2013 // Listen @ mixcloud

1. Addiction (Dog House mix) - Skinny Puppy
2. Impurities (Equitant Remix) - Kontravoid
3. Until Death (Us Do Part) - Front 242
4. Neuen Strassen - Metro Pakt
5. We Believe (LP Version) - Ministry
6. Here Comes the Storm (Carretta & Workerpoor rmx) - Radical G & The Horrorist
7. Shockwave (Gesaffelstein Remix) - The Hacker
8. En Partance - Le Syndicat Electronique
9. Wet & Shiny (Hell's 2013 Rework) - The Horrorist
10. No Shuffle - Front 242
13. Tarantula (original master002) - Radical G
14. Lucrecia My Reflection - Vampire Lust
15. Murderous (Phil Kieran Remix) - Nitzer Ebb
17. Heiliger Bimm Bamm (Original Mix) - Johannes Heil
18. Wie Du - Jäger 90
19. Into the Light - Absolute Body Control
20. O Mineiro (Der Bergmann) - U.M.M.
21. Biba Butzermann - Petra Flurr + Modernista
26. Cardinal Newman - Nervous Gender

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Equitant - Retrospekt 2008-2013 Digipak Now Available @ Storming The Base, Elektro Kommando, Big Cartel

Available in Canada @ (Storming The Base) 12.12.13

Available in Europe @ (Elektro Kommando) 12.13.13

Available in USA @ (Big Cartel) 12.12.13

Equitant "Retrospekt 2008-2013" Press Release - EKP

OUT NOW ON EKP! Equitant "Retrospekt 2008-2013" Digipak/Digital EKPCD033 - Purchase @ Equitant Bandcamp

"Retrospekt 2008-2013" // A compilation documenting the past five years of Equitant music. Featuring 13 selected tracks from: "Body Vehement Remixes - 2013", "Body Vehement - 2012", "Flash of Light - 2011", "That's All - 2009", "Dynamism - 2009", "Mekanik Remix - 2008" & "Mekanik - 2008". Featuring vocals by: Equitant, Lea X, Yasmin Gate, Stephan Busche & Bastian. All tracks remixed & remastered by Equitant - 2013. Released by EK Product (Italy). Purchase Equitant "Retrospekt 2008-2013" Digital or CD/Digipak @ Bandcamp

Out soon on Dancefloor Killers "Electro Generator Group" LP! Including remixes by: Al Ferox, Delectro, The Horrorist, Equitant + more...

Out soon on Dancefloor Killers "Electro Generator Group" LP! Including remixes by: Al Ferox, Delectro, The Horrorist, Equitant + more... Watch the Electro Generator Group - To Believe (Official Video) here

Equitant Shop @ Bigcartel

Equitant Shop @ bigcartel.com

Pre-order Equitant "Retrospekt 2008-2013" Digital or CD/Digipak @ Bandcamp

Pre-order Equitant "Retrospekt 2008-2013" Digital or CD/Digipak @ Bandcamp "Retrospekt 2008-2013" // A compilation documenting the past five years of Equitant music. Featuring 13 selected tracks from: "Body Vehement Remixes - 2013", "Body Vehement - 2012", "Flash of Light - 2011", "That's All - 2009", "Dynamism - 2009", "Mekanik Remix - 2008" & "Mekanik - 2008". Featuring vocals by: Equitant, Lea X, Yasmin Gate, Stephan Busche & Bastian. All tracks remixed & remastered by Equitant - 2013.

Jonathann Cast feat Drey - Hurt Me (Equitant Remix) Radio Edit 2008 *free download

Jonathann Cast feat Drey - Hurt Me (Equitant Remix) Radio Edit 2008 // Taken from "Futureclash2 Compilation" (Advanced Synergy - Mexico)