Party arty: dance beat meets high art in Technova's new CD.Technova * Electrosexual * Hydrogen Dukebox Now that the screaming faddishness of the once white hot electroclash scene has quieted down a bit, it's time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a to start sifting through the sound in search of something lasting and worthwhile. Because for every visionary collective like Fischerspooner--a band that stole its favorite fashion, music, and art moments to create something uniquely its own--there were three dozen other bands that got the "hair right and not much else before moving on to the next cool thing. Enter David Harrow, a.k.a. Technova, an artist who's worked with some of electronic music's biggest names, including Depeche Mode Depeche Mode (IPA: /dəˌpɛʃˈmoʊd/) are an electronic music group that formed in 1980 in Basildon, Essex, England. , the Orb, and Atari Teenage Riot Atari Teenage Riot (abbreviated ATR) was a German Digital hardcore group formed in Berlin in 1992. Highly political, they fused anarchist anti-fascist or anti-Nazi views with punk vocals and the newly emerging techno sound that was called digital hardcore, which is a term . Electrosexual is Harrow's third full-length album recorded under the Technova moniker (1) A name, title or alias. See alias. (2) A COM object that is used to create instances of other objects. Monikers save programmers time when coding various types of COM-based functions such as linking one document to another (OLE). See COM and OLE. (he also released 2003's critically praised Big Casino, among others, under the name James Hardway), and its release finds him ignoring the fact that "the scene" has died and straddling strad·dle v. strad·dled, strad·dling, strad·dles v.tr. 1. a. To stand or sit with a leg on each side of; bestride: straddle a horse. b. the splintered consciousness of modern dance music. Having Vaginal Davis in his corner helps. Davis, the Los Angeles-based multimedia artist whose brand of terrorist drag has influenced both the art and club worlds, contributes vocals to five of the album's 10 tracks. The more raucous songs, like "I Could Have Sex" (already a hit at scene-maker clubs like London's Nag Nag Nag Nag Nag Nag is a London club night at the late Simon Hobart's Ghetto nightclub, founded by veteran DJ, promoter and musician, Jonny Slut[1]. It is commonly associated with the ambisexual post-electroclash scene. ), and Davis's bawdy bawd·y adj. bawd·i·er, bawd·i·est 1. Humorously coarse; risqué. 2. Vulgar; lewd. bawd  i·ly adv. , hilarious delivery bring to mind what might happen if the late LaWanda Page were a visiting lecturer at a cool contemporary art museum. Davis's effortless fusion of the high and the low gives this album its bark. Electrosexual's bite comes in the form of Harrow's own processed vocals floating on top of a spooky cover of Joy Division's "Atmosphere," in addition to what is in the remaining instrumental tracks, which are prime examples of how a form of pop music that wasn't meant to last past the '80s can remain vital when infused with fresh ideas. Electrosexual is stark, elegant dance music for those who want to move or sit still. White writes on film for E! Online. |
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