MP3DB.pro - Punish Yourself Vs. Sonic Area

Remember about the old 'united we stand, divided we fall'
slogan? punish yourself ('cult movie', 'pink panther party'à)
and sonic area ('insensΘ', 'explore') probably had this in mind
when they decided to join forces on a common record.
'phenomedia' is not a classic split-album, or a collection of
mutual remixes, but a full fusion of both musical universes -
resulting in completely exclusive tracks, going far ahead of
anything you would expect. influenced by hint, download, clint
mansell, foetus, coil or the downward spiral, but mostly by the
hypnotic power of mass media, arco (sonic area's mastermind) and
vx 'cheerleader' (py singer and programmer) tried to break all
stylistic boundaries and restrictions, in a merciless attempt to
decipher the 'real world' or at least give some aural image of
his morbid complexity. dense, nervous, sometimes hard to
describe, 'phenomedia' mixes cinematic orchestral atmospheres,
dirty hip-hop, tribal industrial techno-punk, brutal wall of
sounds, hard-glitch breaks and lush ambient soundscapes û and if
you think it's too much, you're probably right ! this is a
shamelessly noisy freaks parade announcing the 'nightmare before
apocalypse' : acid bass lines, explicit tv sampling, screaming
saxophones, broken drum machines collapsing into moody organic
percussions, melancholic piano arpeggios and cello, distorted
blues guitar, suicide lullabies, whispers, incantations, rantsà
this is hard cut-up music for chaos lovers, topped with broken
bits of post-industrial mythology - the roswell alien, kurt
cobain, elvis presley, hakim bey, nikola tesla, jim jones,
timothy leary, jf kennedy and many more unwilling guests. do you
feel like you're part of a media-traumatized generation? do you
feel addicted to the continuous stroboscopic flow of
information, entertainment, spiritual promises and advertisement
delivered by tv, the internet, movies, radio? is
channel/net-surfing/scanning/hopping your favourite killing-time
drug? do you feel like nothing is good enough, real enough,
awesome enough for you? how can you spend more than twenty
seconds of your precious attention span if this record is just
another product of the music industry? who's the next scapegoat?
who's the next star? who's the next guru? who's the next
prophet? what's the next distraction? what's the next thrill?
what's the next reason to believe in something? should you buy a
new laptop? what should you fight for? money? power? disorder?
put the remote down and try phenomedia. welcome to one of the
most innovative, esoteric, poetic and pessimistic cyberpunk
album ever recorded!!