M.Syres as the lead guitar demagogue. He is responsible for rhythm, lead and dissonance in the field of guitar. Various arrangements were also choreographed by him using his guitar in a manner often viewed as inappropriate.
Devo who stars as the bassist. He is the shaper of electronics, loops, synth bass, various samples and occasionally attempts to play bass guitar.
ProduKt as the chief chemist and philosopher of electronics, specializing in the field of keyboards and responsible for synthesizers, discoloration of words, loops, and political melody.
Filth as the live drummer and primal meter interpreter. Leader of all rhythm divisions of marching and big band korps.
Live Review.
If I were listening to {STRANGE} whilst walking amidst a large city in another country, I would feel as if I was in a feature film. Their music would bring alive, add new depths to and slow right down the cityscapes buzzing around me - sun rays slicing through darkly chaotic traffic, glimpses of private emotion on passing faces, mundane urban details revealing hidden textures
Projected onto a side wall in the dark room were black bolded words like Materialism, Fear, Destruction, and more subtle words I cannot remember as I focused predominantly on the music. For me, words that allude to the {STRANGE} music would include: Emotive, Cinematic, Running Through Midnight, Collision, Touch.
Reviewed by Ming Yu Hah
Influences
GENRE
Darkwave
Ambient
EBM
Industrial
New Wave
BANDS
+ VAST
+ Pink Floyd
+ A Perfect Circle
+ She Wants Revenge
+ Atari Teenage Riot
+ Nine Inch Nails
+ Pitchshifter
+ Skinny Puppy
+ The Cure
+ Killing Joke
and countless others.
Electronic alternative outfit known simply as {STRANGE} are an instrumental 4 piece from Sydney Australia. Creating and designing dense soundscapes, that are as vast as they are caustic, as aggressive as they are epic. Part anguish, part apathy {STRANGE} are four individuals, with one single aim, to stretch your imagination and push your senses to their very limits.
Their debut EP (currently untitled) is moments away for being wrapped up, with mastering and pressing still to be done. It will be made available during the fall of 2007.
“We’re all very different individuals and we all have different ways of communicating the same sentence – but the unifying aspect is that we speak as a singular, powerful and venomous voice on this record.” Devo explains.
It’s been 5 years in the making and during that time the band have had to endure not only break-ups, internal fighting, dissolving friendships, family members dying, the bitter taste of failure, apathy towards each other, personal demons, having their own fans turn on them, members leaving and to top it all off, the constant threat that it could all end at any moment.
"It hasn’t been easy. But friction and tension can be good sometimes because eventually you need a release for both and we’ve always had the ability to write music because of that.” Reveals Filth
Infamous for their unsettling expressionless masks, bereft of a singer, entirely instrumental and a chaotic stage show to match, the band have never been one of take the easy route.
Syres elaborates “From the visual movies we make to compliment our shows, to the songs, to the theatre of it all, we just want to make a statement that there’s more to music than just looking at your shoes onstage for an hour. We’ve never comprised any aspect of our art and output for the sake of appealing to the masses - that's never been the intention. We’re always going to do things on our own terms.”
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