NVR MND MIXTAPE SERIES - Including Equitant's "Body Vehement (original mix)". Cape Town, South Africa's Tannhäuser Gate brings us the first mix of 2014 for NVR MND Mix 09 NVR M1X 09 // TANNHAUSER GATE M1X
VOID VISION - A VERSION
PROFLIGATE - ANNIHILATED
THE HACKER - EUROCOLD (TERRENCE FIXMER EDIT)
SCHWEFELGELB - AUF DER ANDEREN SEITE VOM FENSTER
EKMAN - TEARS OF A CLOWN
GREENLANDER - MOTH CONTAINER
EQUITANT - BODY VEHEMENT
CUTE HEELS - EMPTY METROPOLIS
SLAM CITY - CITY DESTROYER
Equitant – Body Vehement (2012) [Black Montanas] // Grade: B+
The EBM-Techno engine known as Equitant is powered by Texan Ray Heflin who, after 3 years releases his fifth full-length entitled Body Vehement on Black Montanas. Although three years since the last release, Dynamism in 2009, time has not softened his sound or dulled his production. Instead, Body Vehement sounds like the time has been taken to intensify the sound and the production sounds even sharper.
Equitant lacks 100% of the cheese factor that a lot of the modern EBM has gotten itself wrapped up in. Where most of the modern EBM scene sounds like nothing more than bad progressive trance from the late ’90s with distorted vocals as the cherry precariously perched on top, Equitant (luckily!) sounds nothing like this and missed the bad trance boat by a mile. Instead, Equitant stays relevant by connecting to more underground electro, EBM, and dark techno. Equitant does what it does well like a finely crafted machine that has become perfected by innovation within the structure rather than frivolous trending and prototypical failures.
Body Vehement would best be described as existing in the space between heavy synthesizer based ’80s EBM like early Frontline Assembly (think bass and synth on Corrosion era FLA) meets Terence Fixmer or David Carretta’s banging dark techno that sounds equally at home on a white smoke machined EBM night as it would in a intense techno set. This heavily synthesized sound is then illuminated by guest vocals by Lea X, Bastian, Illumine Concrete and Yasmin Gate (Ex-Dirty Princess for which Equitant in July 2009 produced her debut track called “You Know What I Want” for David Carretta’s Space Factory Records, along with other collaborators: T Raumschmiere, Ikki, Douglas McCarthy, Migue Garcia and Petra Flur). As an extra bonus, the Body Vehement Remixes will be out in October 2012 on Black Montanas with remixes by David Carretta & Workerpoor, Yan Wagner, People Theatre, Adriano Canzian, Illumine Concrete, Romain Frequency, Strange Connection, Ba, Indira Paganotto, Dylan McBride, Fabio Scognamiglio, Tkuz, Jordan Passmore, Daniel Olarte, Elite!, Lia Organa, Skinovthenight, Ivan Overdriver, Bhasmantam Macumba, Cole Black and Equitant himself.
Review by: Mike Textbeak
Source: Mishka Bloglin
DM003 - Precarious mixtape by Mike Textbeak feat. Equitant – Dynamique feat. Bastian (Equitant Remix) listen @ soundcloud
Track List: Propaganda – dream within a dream BRUXA – VA! (MyrrhKaBa remix) ______ – Aqua Regia Drowning The Colossus – Astral Goth (Ceremonial Dagger remix) Gluuuu – Get Away ϟ†Nϟ – Cops And Christians Com Truise – Open Purity Ring – Belispeak (Duchovny Remix) My Mine – Hypnotic Tango (spf5Ø edit) Textbeak and Nové Můra – NVVI Modern Witch – Boyz Perturbator & Lueur Verte – Mirage GuMMy†Be▲R! – Sleeping in Dubai Mark Stewart & Primal Scream – Autonomia (A JD Twitch Optimo Total Destruction) Joeybagadoughnuts – Drifting With Progeria (Feat. Supa) Videograve – Christine CROSSOVER – WRAITH IN THE WOODZ (SILVER STRAIN RMX) Slow Head – Fire is the Mouth †HAT WAS †HEN †HIS IS NOW – SANCTUARIUM strunkdts – TraSXh Humper D-R-U-N-K – 5am Equitant – Dynamique feat. Bastian (Equitant Remix) Shisa & GH – Obsolete CURT CRACKRACH – DO IT IN THE PARK Coil – Teenage Lightning (Surgeon remix) Mark Stewart, Factory Floor & Keith Levene – Stereotype Cindytalk – In this World
You don't exactly expect hard techno-EBM coming from Texas (USA), and yet Equitant is a project that has actually been active since the early 1990’s. Equitant stands for high-tech & modern techno-EBM, and can be defined as an offspring between bands like Nitzer Ebb & DAF at one side, and a darkened Giorgio Moroder at the other.
Posts
