Thursday, 6 March 2008

FAST LADY & SCORPIO SCORPIO – SPLIT SINGLE (V/VM TEST RECORDS)


FAST LADY & SCORPIO SCORPIO – SPLIT SINGLE (V/VM TEST RECORDS)

Released on the legendary V/Vm Test Records, here is a very special collaboration that unites two nations and two continents all the name of rock!  What we have here is the meeting of two crushing minds operating with the sole intent of moving even the most infirm, both physically and mentally.  Literally and metaphorically.  Country and Western!

In the UK corner we have Fast Lady the finest purveyors of electronic heavy metal known to man.  This is an act that full subscribes to the death to false metal ethos while at the same time refusing the employ the conventional means of guitars and drums when pounding on the stage, instead choosing a car battery operated laptop to pump out their steam freeing them to cavort like purple druids cum cloaked flower people.  An act more sinister than cynical, theirs is a legacy of opening and breaking hearts.

In the Australian we have Scorpio Scorpio, a one-man crime wave that causes chaos wherever he may roam, which these days just happens to be England.  This is a man for who no crime is too petty and no larceny too extreme, all he is need is a mission and at this time that mission is to rock.  With an accent as fierce and broad as Joe Mangel, that Chopper guy that also played the Hulk ain’t got shit on Scorpio Scorpio.  Where there is darkness, let there be fight.

The onslaught opens with “Love Dictator” and one of the most alpha male tracks off this or any era.  Initially things feel distinctly Nine Inch Nails gone play as Fast Lady etches first blood prior to a call and response crossfire exchange with Scorpio Scorpio.  Imagine the sentiments of “The Boys Are Back In Town” complimented with serious criminal records and sawn off shotguns.  This is not stuff to be taken lightly.

Flipping over a sense of jubilation and kinship exudes from the downright Def Leppard-esqe “United In Rock” that sees the two acts going head-to-head, snappy at each other when you know they just want to make love.  By the end they are “building bridges across the ocean”, such is the power of this music, no only are they united in rock, they’re also “united in emotion”.  Remember when television used to be great and would contain montages of victory?  This music would have been the soundtrack.

I feel exhumed.

Thesaurus moment: collude.

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