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Mekanik Disorder: Out Of Context

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Artist: Mekanik Disorder
Title: Out Of Context
Format: CD
Label: Caustic Records (@)
Distributor: Poponaut
Rated: * * * * *
Nearly 4 years in the making, the Spanish one-man project of Cesar Cruz returns with an all new album again signed to the hard-working Caustic Records label. Already the attached band photos as well as the cover artwork show us the difference. It seems that Cesar has had a time period of consciousness. The debut "Cold & Strong" has shared impressive Industrial-like photos of a huge telescope in black/red color contrasts, while this new one shows a sunny and peaceful landscape with an endless street. Cesar nowadays has belt on an acoustic guitar and the whole scenario looks more relaxed. Also when it comes to detect the changes in his music, Cesar now offers a wider direction and a development. He's still a kid with his roots in the 80s, but nowadays he offers musically more diversity and some unexpected elements. Especially the New Wave-style has gathered more and more meaning in the music dimension of Mekanik Disorder, while Cesar still shares his love for early Synthpop- and EBM-structures on this whole album. This can be pretty much noticed with the title-track, on which he pays respect to some Belgian Wave-heroes like Poesie Noire or The Neon Judgment. Of course the guitar got not shown on his new photos, it got inserted too. Also his known ability to use different languages (Spanish, English, Dutch, and German) for his lyrics has to be named as being advantageous. 'Als Liebe nur ein Spiel war' has surprisingly catchy moments and I tend also to spend applause on 'Deadpoint' with its galloping bass-line sequences, although - and I still need to insist on this - he could produce it a bit tougher. But no matter and despite all further minor things I could mention here, Cesar has produced a quite valuable album with sedating tunes which drift a bit away from the angry and more minimal EBM structures of his debut. It needs a bit time to grow on you plus it maybe won't stand any fight with the Anhalt-EBM troops, it nevertheless offers a portion of diversity which is often a miss at comparable releases.

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