"supposed to know politics when you're 46"
The pulsating synthetic barrage that is Bowie 95 from the electronic dark duo KITE is damn exquisite in it's ability to transport you both backward and forward. With an industrial wave push it feels, at once, like something existing in a dark German club in 1979 but also feels like it is a prescient look at days or years to come in our dystopian future. The Swedish duo seem to have an innate knack of creating sounds that are evocatively nostalgic. Christian Berg's synth sounds have a road worn, bruised aesthetic bristling with past fuzziness and singer Nicklas Stenemo's voice with it's wide eyed piercing artful quality made me think of a molecular crushing of a young Bowie and Gary Numan.
Of the track, the two creatives offer:
“The lyrics addresses both the feeling of guilt of not being more part of making the real world much better, but also the acceptance that music and escapism have an important role to play in people’s lives.”
and further bullet points:
+ "While our governments are leaving music and the arts to die, the notion of them being ‘non-essential’ cuts deeper than ever"
+ "Produced together with Blanck Mass (Benjamin John Power from F-Buttons)"
-Robb Donker Curtius
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Swedish synth act Kite are releasing new track Bowie ‘95. It’s an ode to being lost, and the existential dread that comes from having to engage with the ‘real world’. Made up of singer Nicklas Stenemo and keyboard player Christian Berg, the band tell us “The lyrics addresses both the feeling of guilt of not being more part of making the real world much better, but also the acceptance that music and escapism have an important role to play in people’s lives.”
Like recent single ‘Teenage Bliss’ the new song has been produced together with Blanck Mass (Benjamin John Power). The pair tell us that “When we started Kite the band F*** .Buttons were a big source of inspiration to us. Since then we have been following Benjamin John Powers brilliant music as Blanck Mass. We are now extremely excited to announce that we are working on the production of two new Kite tracks with him.”
The band have brought their projection filled, brain melting visual live show to audiences in Scandinavia, Germany, the US, Canada and China. It sometimes even includes cats shooting laser beams out of their eyes, and when their performing their sold our show’s at Stockholm’s Royal Opera House – a 16-piece orchestra.
The pair combine an adventurous nature with pop sensibilities, throbbing beats and an early nineties aesthetic. Their lean approach to songwriting – a methodology of ‘cut the fat’ results in tight, focussed songs that never outstay their welcome.
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