[ cell 7 ]

Bio:

.. UPDATE 2010:
RE:COGNITION now distributed through the FiXT store :o) www.FiXTstore.com

debut album RE:COGNITION available now : itunes : amazon : emusic : rhapsody : special edition CD pack coming very soon!

Nick - vox, guitars, programming, miscellaneous instrumentation.
Paul - synths, programming.

"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture..." - so lets dance.

Post-Prodigy industrial pop? Broken robot funk? Depeche Mode being mugged by the Aphex Twin in a dark alleyway? Take your pick.

Mesh the emotional vocal melodies and song structures of 80s alterna-electro-pop with abstract concussion beats and miscellaneous noise, and you might have a vague idea of [ cell 7 ]. Scientific synth bleeps, the occasional orchestral instrument and some sharp but rusty machine guitars complete the picture.
Standing primarily in the darker side of the musical spectrum, [ cell 7 ] has an aggressive, industrial edge that is offset by a highly melodic and atmospheric sensibility. The themes are not necessary melancholic or negative, just introspective and sometimes a little ambiguous to the listener. The rhythms are fractured, complex: never conventional but always danceable. Sometimes entering distorted cyber-breakbeat territory, other times offering a stuttering IDM skeleton to a track. Lush layers of organic and synthetic instrumentation sit within the track, with potent yet textural vocals above. Strains of Dave Gahan, Trent Reznor and David Bowie are traceable in Nick's tones, but there is also a dirty edge that implies a few 90s Seattle influences. Bleeding, metallic guitar is not used in the traditional rock sense - more as an impact device to tear through the mix.

Paul and Nick have been friends since the age of 5, growing up in the hills of Perth, Western Australia. Both received classical training, Paul on piano and Nick with violin and viola. The obligatory teen rebellion against this led to equal parts rave, techno, electro, goth, alt-metal, pop and noise influences - these were meshed together to create the new sound of [ cell 7 ].
West Australian Music Industry [WAMI] award winners 3 years in a row, [ cell 7 ] have contributed tracks to a number of compilation records, featured on TV soundtracks and were commissioned to create theme music for short films and events. A limited edition mini-album was released, selling out in under 72 hours. Now splitting their time between Perth and Amsterdam in the Netherlands, the band has finally released their debut full-length CD, RE:COGNITION.

[ cell 7 ] have worked for years in spectacularly pedantic style: tweaking, remixing, refining then discarding and starting again, then losing half the work in hard-drive supernovas. RE:COGNITION is a mix of reinvented song fragments completed with the latest production technologies and their own personal maturity. The music possesses an almost Vernian steampunk appreciation - visions of velvet, absinthe and arcane machinery sit alongside sci-fi digital precision/corrosion and a sense of melancholic optimism. RE:COGNITION shows [ cell 7 ] as a band with the perfect blend of past and future.

::links::
[ cell 7 ] on Virb
[ cell 7 ] on purevolume
[ cell 7 ] on Twitter
[ Nick ] as a PureVolume listener..
[ Nick ] as a Last.Fm listener..

For more info and tracks - please head here >> [ CLICK ME ]

Member Since:

May 06, 2006

Members:

Nick - vox, guitars, programming, miscellaneous instrumentation.

Paul - synths, programming.

Influences:

Apparat, Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, Prodigy, Curve, FSOL, Amorphous Androdgenous, Noisy, Funkstorung, Aphex Twin, SpeedyJ, Lassigue Benthaus, Amon Tobin, Cocteau Twins, Jane's Addiction, Ian Brown, Skinny Puppy, Autechre, Björk, Chemical Brothers, Crystal Method, The Cure, Bauhaus, Gary Numan, Sielwolf, Pet Shop Boys, U2, Mike Patton, Robyn, Burial, Modeselektor, Moderat, Deftones, Broken Note, Beatles, David Bowie, Radiohead, Delerium, Oliver Lieb, BT, Goldfrapp, Enter Shikari, Tea Party, Fischerspooner, Smashing Pumpkins, Lush, Kate Bush, Frou Frou, Imogen Heap, Sigur Ros, Celldweller, Fingathing, Hecq, Telefon Tel Aviv, Shiny Toy Guns, .Adult, Massive Attack, Ooah, Timbaland, Missy Elliot, Tom Waits, Noisia, IAMX, New Order, Abakus, Black Lung, Yello, Mirwais, Refused, Static Age, Ultravox, William Orbit, Vector Lovers, Kraftwerk, Dvorak, Soundtracks, Anime/Manga, Steam Punk, Neal Stephenson, Jeff Noon, Tesla, Newton, Huygens, 80s, Industrial, Trip-hop, Dubstep, Emotronica, Glitch/IDM, Steinberger, Ibanez, Nord, Kurzweil, Logic, Native Instruments, FXpansion etc etc

Sounds Like:

A chainsaw wielded with velvet gloves.

Record Label:

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