Format Details: Lp
Release Date: 03 April 2020
Label: Svart Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 6430050665463
Genres: Electronic Kraut Rock
Release Date: 03 April 2020
Label: Svart Records
Packaging Type: Gate Fold Vinyl
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 6430050665470
Genres: Electronic Kraut Rock
Description
Take the themes of: fear of war, paranoia, euphoria, dark sexuality and a cosmic new age and imagine them in the industrial backdrop of 1970s Sheffield and you have Timo Kaukolampi's vision for what the fourth K-X-P album 'III Part II' sounds and looks like.The Finnish group - the core unit of which has now long comprised of the trio: Timo Kaukolampi (electronics, vocals and the 'K'), Tuomo Puranen (bass, keyboards and the 'P'), and alternating drummers (the 'X' - for the mystery) Tomi Leppanen and Anssi Nykanen - are once again found to be breaking territory in the second part of their album III.
If Part I was the brooding, rising and tension-ensconced opening act then Part II is the climatic and explosive finale that wraps up the thirteen tracks that stretches across the two releases. It's a rare feat to be able to create a second half to something that feels both unique and of its own character as well as be something that retains coherence and conclusion but K-X-P has succeeded in doing just that.Despite the evolution of K-X-P being such a progressive and capacious one, it's something the group consider to be uncontrollable rather than concocted, "It is not possible to control or predict. It is random and chaotic, [considered] evolution sucks the energy from me like a leech.
" Timo Kaukolampi says of the process.From 2014's The History of Techno EP to Part I of III being released early in 2015, the group have traversed genres with glistening grace, from ambient proto techno to juddering space rock and just about everywhere else in between. For Kaukolampi however, he views this latest sonic development as "the most rock, punk and new wave record we have ever done. It is angry and hostile but it also has beauty in it. Like a conversation between good and evil, capturing the moment when punk rockers started to use drum machines and sequencers."When pressed on the individual tracks from the album, the sorts of descriptions and reference points eclipse that conventional and prosaic: "A Dystopian vision of
Description
Take the themes of: fear of war, paranoia, euphoria, dark sexuality and a cosmic new age and imagine them in the industrial backdrop of 1970s Sheffield and you have Timo Kaukolampi's vision for what the fourth K-X-P album 'III Part II' sounds and looks like.The Finnish group - the core unit of which has now long comprised of the trio: Timo Kaukolampi (electronics, vocals and the 'K'), Tuomo Puranen (bass, keyboards and the 'P'), and alternating drummers (the 'X' - for the mystery) Tomi Leppanen and Anssi Nykanen - are once again found to be breaking territory in the second part of their album III.
If Part I was the brooding, rising and tension-ensconced opening act then Part II is the climatic and explosive finale that wraps up the thirteen tracks that stretches across the two releases. It's a rare feat to be able to create a second half to something that feels both unique and of its own character as well as be something that retains coherence and conclusion but K-X-P has succeeded in doing just that.Despite the evolution of K-X-P being such a progressive and capacious one, it's something the group consider to be uncontrollable rather than concocted, "It is not possible to control or predict. It is random and chaotic, [considered] evolution sucks the energy from me like a leech." Timo Kaukolampi says of the process.From 2014's The History of Techno EP to Part I of III being released early in 2015, the group have traversed genres with glistening grace, from ambient proto techno to juddering space rock and just about everywhere else in between. For Kaukolampi however, he views this latest sonic development as "the most rock, punk and new wave record we have ever done. It is angry and hostile but it also has beauty in it.
Like a conversation between good and evil, capturing the moment when punk rockers started to use drum machines and sequencers."When pressed on the individual tracks from the album, the sorts of descriptions and reference points eclipse that conventional and prosaic: "A Dystopian vision of
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
Wigwam
Tuohi Klang
Wigwam
Cynic
Heikki Sarmanto
Cynic
Necropsy
Pestigore
K-X-P
K-X-P
K-X-P
K-X-P
