Its a beautiful life apparently. Underneath our Darwinian culture where we constantly are racing to procure the most stuff, land the best job and to look the best, people are searching for something more.
One of the worlds finest techno artists, Kompakt's Gui Boratto is from Brazil, a place where peasants rub shoulders with the wealthy, where excess and deprivation collide. I have never been to Sao Paulo, the smog-ridden home of Boratto, yet being the 3rd largest city on the planet it surely would make one feel a little disconnected and isolated, with out-of-control urban sprawl and large amounts of poverty compounding the mood. However in these surroundings, Boratti creates a beautiful musical vision, colourful and uplifting. It is wonderful how he sees through the darkness and uses a synthetic musical medium to create something so emotive and human. I told you techno was back.
MP3: Gui Boratto - Beautiful Life
I caught a show recently at a local venue, featuring some relatively unknown Aussie Punk/Hardcore bands. This is a scene that seemingly gets bigger as the days tick by, and Armageddon Sky from Melbourne for me are the pick of the bunch. On record you may be forgiven for thinking they sound similar to many others competing in the same field, but you would be wrong in assuming as much. In a live setting this band comes to life with each vocal harmony sounding rich and melodic; each scream empassioned and tactful; drums and guitars that seem to run with an unstoppable heartbeat and an energetic frontman who's performance live is punctuated by random acts of speaker stack climbing. The polish of the studio mutes all this just a tad, but if you get the chance to see them live it will all make perfect sense. Their City Lights Glow EP is out now and its certainly worth a listen.
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