MUTANT BEAT DANCE - S/T (RHM 027) by Rush Hour Music published on 2018-03-05T09:36:41Z This player previews Mutant Beat Dance - S/t, the 25 track debut album of the Chicago trio, Traxx, Beau Wanzer and Steve Summers. Release: November 2018 BUY VINYL: http://bit.ly/MBD_LP BUY CD: http://bit.ly/MBD_CD BUY DIGITAL: http://rushhourmusic.bandcamp.com Press: mijke@rushhour.nl For North America contact: Gamall, Backspin Promotions g@backspinpromo.com Mutant Beat Dance has returned with their debut self-titled 25 track album, a record album booklet consisting of 6 records in 3 different formats of 12"s, 7"s and 10”, a CD and in digital formats. This concept has been in development since 2015 with over two hours running time. Originally a duo made up of Traxx & Beau Wanzer from Nation's label roster, now a trio with its newest member Steve Summers to present an enormous diversity of song styles unlike anything they have ever done. The debut album from renegade trio Mutant Beat Dance (Traxx aka Melvin Oliphant, Beau Wanzer and Steve Summers) takes the wild and free sound of Chicago’s Music Box era into the 21st Century. Over twenty-five tracks the album mines an oft cited but rarely understood ground at the intersection of Post-Punk, Minimal Wave, Industrial, Disco Dub, EBM and proto-House / early-House. “Mutant Beat Dance.” is an epic journey into a classic American ideology that had its apex in Chicago. This aesthetic has already proven influential on many artists across the globe. Least of which is the Grammy winning LCD Soundsystem whose members Tyler Pope and Patrick Mahoney back Melvin on vocals here on the Martin Hannett and Howard Devoto inspired “Feed The Enemy” – a cut that shows how wide and deep this epic record goes. Another LCD member Gavin Rayna Russom also provides vocals on the later cut “Geometrical Disease.” That these collaborations are included here should come as no surprise to anyone who caught the recent LCD tour - Traxx was the opening DJ on that nationwide tour. You can check out his opening set from Chicago last November. Traxx has been working on this concept in various forms throughout the last decade on release for Discos Capablanca, Rong Music, Hour House Is Your Rush Records, L.I.E.S. (Long Island Electrical Systems), Light Sounds Dark, Rush Hour and his own Nation label finally refining his concept into its most thoroughly developed explored on this the debut M.B.D album that was started in 2015. Mutant Beat Dance was originally a duo made up of Traxx, and self-described weirdo, Chicagoan Beau Wanzer. Given the scope of the new project it became logical and necessary to expand the unit to include its newest member Brooklyn based Steve Summers. Together this hard-working trio has completed an album with an enormous diversity of song styles unlike anything they have ever done before. Unique in its musical range and content from obscure electronics with subliminal messages to funk laden machine grooves, industrial soundscapes, Detroit dirge, cryptic ankle bitter anthems and beyond this is a genre-bending challenging epic of an album. TRACKLIST 1. Creep In The Crowd 2. Hate Has No Home 3. Curtail Corporation 4. Transmitter/Transistor 5. From Another Source 6. Funk Groove(skit) 7. Revival 80s 8. On A Different Note 9. Midi 10. Crete ft. Marianna 11. Toy Story 12. Last Illusion 13. Synthesized Antics Of Evolution 14. Checklist 15. Piano Monologue(skit) 16. Feed The Enemy 17. Scandalous Vanity 18. Geometrical Disease ft. Black Meteoric Star 19. Uncanny Ignorance 20. The Fear of Future and Euphoria 21. The Human Factor ft. Naughty Wood 22. Affliction 23. No Ambition 24. Lost Stars 25. Hero Contains tracks 1. Creep In The Crowd (snipclip) by Rush Hour Music published on 2018-03-05T09:32:59Z 2. On A Different Note (snipclip) by Rush Hour Music published on 2018-03-05T09:32:51Z 3. Curtail Corporation (snipclip) by Rush Hour Music published on 2018-03-05T09:32:57Z 4. Synthesized Antics Of Evolution (snipclip) by Rush Hour Music published on 2018-03-05T09:32:45Z 5. Toy Story (snipclip) by Rush Hour Music published on 2018-03-05T09:32:47Z