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Scorpion Violente - Uberschleiss
So I’m baking apple crisp to this. You could not have picked better choof. I’ve never listened to anything closely resembling any of the tagged genres, neither minimal synth/wave, nor EBM, no nothing. Well except synth punk, but not the one you’re thinking of – never the one you’re thinking of – and maybe some cursory yet educational listen of Suicide. Since my ears are all grown-up now, I’m only recently curious about digging back into the dreaded decade of the 70’s, and thus, attempting to reconcile with post-punk beforehand. I just can’t stand Ian Curtis’ voice. Tried countless times. There, I’ve said it. Let my most controversial opinion be the preface to this somehow related album which wasn’t even released back then wait never mind.
Scott Scorpion and Thomas Violente, two recycled basement-wrestling monikers making equally appropriate basement-dwelling music. It’s actually neat. As in, actually-clueless-to-how-original-it-might-be, neat. Its better half consist of evocatively erotic, danceable grooves. I’m talking four to the floor, sometimes crossing into tedious territory, often confusing minimalism for hypnosis. Apart from We Are One, with its more competent writing, soaked in droning ambience and complete with a vocal treatment that finally make sense. All the while carefully peeling apple skin.
So give me the closer, the Liars-esque intro Viol et revanche, the synth-punky cuts 13 ans presque 17 and Fugue de pute mineure, and you’ve got a slapping EP. Although, one that owes much more to french synthwave revival than the darker industrial of their later material (referring to their EP The Stalker).