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Review: 'Distance Dealer'
'Mind Dawns'   

-  Label: 'Black Jack Illuminist Records/Bandcamp'
-  Genre: 'Industrial' -  Release Date: '28.5.21.'

Our Rating:
Distance Dealer are a new duo comprised of Alexander Donat from Vlimmer alongside Thiago Desant from Phantoms Vs Fire who have create a German Brazilian darkwave album that demonstrate how in our modern world such distance is no barrier to collaboration.

The album opens with Slasher that sounds from it's slow moody intro like it could be the soundtrack to a Slasher movie, and as the drums and vocals come in to becomes almost darker and more gothic and rich with dancefloor elements perfect for a darkwave slasher movie denouement.

The albums title track Mind Dawns take a drum and bass backbone and adds quite squelchy sounding synths and Alex's quite Robert Smith style vocals to end up with a cool hybrid that's not quite EBM or EDM but sort of fuses elements of both with the techno dark wave feel it's darkly disturbing with some very interesting percussive elements.

Waved Aside feels like they've updated a late 80's song by Trisomie 21 and come up with this moving and in places elegiac song for the underground and the forgotten.

Body/Frame opens as if it is sound tracking Tron or something similar as the song takes us on a dark little journey through the modern psyche.

Mourned & Dead is a floor filler of a darkwave song of remembrance for those we have lost and sounds perfect to do some Lightbulb changing dance moves too.

Confront has a very dark Depeche Mode feel to it, the slow moody and despairing end of things as Alex tells us to Confront the one who hate, a message that shouldn't need repeating as often as it sadly does, so the next time you need that confrontation stick this on and blast the haters with it.

Bloom Or Doom has a very slow beginning with almost a toy music box style keyboard part over the synths as Alex lays out the choice between Bloom Or Doom and will you grow or will you die.

Sun mixes ambient sounds with a steady back beat and some oddly intrusive bass drumming over this song of the Sun that at times feels a touch disjointed as the bass seems to hit you deep and you stare up at the Sun once more.

A Lack Of What? Is a great question and the darkly disturbing music and insistent vocals that in places go Goth Mark E Smith work well but the sneering MES vibe could have been ramped up a bit to make this a bit more antagonistic as Alex asks all sorts of questions against the moody electronics.

The album closes with Hit By A Brick a sorry tale of someone being hit by a brick thrown from the second floor of a block of flats, this is a sad sad story set to dark troubling music, it certainly reminds me of the days when having bricks thrown at us wasn't that unusual, while following football in the late 70's and early 80's, thankfully none of the bricks thrown at me connected. This somehow despite the darkness of the subject matter sounds like it ought to be a hit and get loads of radio play as it brings an intriguing and cool darkwave album to a close.

Find out more at https://blackjackilluministrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mind-dawns https://www.facebook.com/distancedealer
  author: simonovitch

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