Elektrokohle looks like commandeered a pirate television station in the video for “Vollmond” (in English, “Full Moon”) – all black and white, flickering images like reels projected onto a background. The motorik beats, metallic utility percussion and what could be processed guitar or synth, vocals sounding like they’re coming from a tunnel, a bit of German Expressionist aesthetic and a sense of traveling back and forth in time before crackling white noise spirals into the outro. It truly sounds like a music out of time with obvious sonic references to krautrock and early German industrial and post-punk but with a sound palette of its own that prevents discreet discernment of instrumentation so that the track has to be taken on as a whole that disorients as it draws you in. It’s a sound the band calls “Cold Punk” which encapsulates the diverse roots and influences nicely. Watch the video for “Vollmond” on YouTube and follow Berlin’s Elektrokohle at the links below.
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