{"title":"Dame Area","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"ondas-tribales","title":"Ondas Tribales","description":"\u003cp\u003eHailing from Barcelona, Silvia Konstance and Viktor L.Crux (a collaborator of Nurse With Wound and J.Arbeit from Einstürzende Neubauten) developed during the last years a unique music style recognized as \u003ci\u003eTribal Wave\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMixing synth bassline arpeggios and live percussions, noises and congas, industrialism and tribalism, Italian and Spanish, Dame Area are running across the same path and breathing the same air of the EBM\/Industrial driven Diseño Corbusier or the drum compositions of Roberto De Simone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStarting to play live and releasing their music in 2018 for their own label and venue Maja Roja (with the support of fans like Julian Cope and Yamatsuka Eye), their incessant touring schedule has already seen them play all over Europe in the past couple of years. Since 2019 they also play live as a trio with Jesse Webb from Gnod\/Anthroprophh at the drums\/percussion.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mannequin","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50443767710027,"sku":"1120094","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/7653a47e-93bb-4faa-aff4-37fb75b8b8bb_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727020187"},{"product_id":"toda-la-verdad-sobre-dame-area","title":"Toda La Verdad Sobre Dame Area","description":"\u003cp\u003eDame Area's highly anticipated fourth studio album, \"Toda la verdad sobre Dame Area\" (\"The Whole Truth about Dame Area\"), a collaboration with the renowned labels Mannequin Records and Humo Records.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFormed in 2017 within the vibrant underground scene of Barcelona's Màgia Roja club, Dame Area comprises the Italian-Catalan duo Silvia Konstance and Viktor Lux Crux. They fuse industrial-tribal polyrhythms with minimalist synth basslines, drawing profound inspiration from avant-garde masters such as Esplendor Geometrico, Throbbing Gristle, Suicide, Einstürzende Neubauten, Can, Coil, Swans, Big Black, and Wolf Eyes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis record represents a new phase in Dame Area's discography. It's a big step up in terms of sound, composition and ideas. This record it's the perfect representation of what they have been playing live the last three years and what most people know them for. Also it serves as a companion piece to 2022’s Toda la mentira sobre Dame Area (\"All The Lies About Dame Area\"), which had a stronger focus on melody, while this latest record is more aggressive and industrial-influenced, with a greater emphasis on percussion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTracks like the Suicide-influenced \"Si no es hoy cuando es\" and \"Sempre Cambiare\" are an onslaught of industrialism and experimentalism—formidable, volatile, and unpredictable avant-garde subversion. Silvia explains, \"One of our biggest influences is doing what our influences wouldn't do. We're more into dynamics and structures atypical of electronic music, with changes in time signatures, starts and stops, and dynamics more typical of rock music. We use any musical idea from any genre. Some songs on the album are based on flamenco rhythms, others influenced by '60s experimental pop, heavy metal, or contemporary electronic music.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe confrontational \"Vengo dall'aldilà\" accelerates with heavy percussion, while \"Tu me hiciste creer\" builds into a rhythmic, transcendent noise of yelled vocals and hypnotic beats. Viktor adds, \"This song took us more time to complete than any other we have recorded. It was a very organic process, evolving slowly from some instrumental percussive stuff we were doing live. Then we started using feedback as a rhythmic element (through a metallic sheet), and this was the first song where we incorporated this element, typical of noise-rock and experimental rock.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElsewhere, \"Esto Es Nuestro Ruido\" represents a manic, eclectic form of contemporary industrial music, post-punk, and EBM. Silvia notes, \"It's the first album we recorded outside a studio. Although we've been playing live with metallic percussion and floor tom from the very start, in the studio, with some exceptions, it was mostly sample-based until now. On Toda la verdad sobre Dame Area, all drums and almost all metallic percussion have been recorded live.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a growing reputation as one of the best live bands around since their inception, Dame Area has toured extensively across Europe, performing at renowned festivals like Atonal, CTM, Nuits Sonores, Dour, and Fusion, as well as legendary clubs such as Berghain, Tresor, Apolo, and Spook Factory.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mannequin","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50464177717579,"sku":"2224351","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/cover_photo_digital_6b1390a6_thumbnail_4096.png?v=1727271431"},{"product_id":"toda-la-mentira-sobre-dame-area-all-the-lies-about-dame-area","title":"Toda la mentira sobre Dame Area \/ All the Lies about Dame Area","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe essence of Dame Area – the project of Barcelona-based duo Silvia Kostance and Viktor L. Crux – is formidable, volatile, unpredictable. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross two albums and several EPs for the likes of Mannequin Records, BFE Records and their own cult imprint \/ DIY organisation Màgia Roja, Dame Area have executed an eclectic, discerning form of contemporary industrial music, deploying compulsive minimal synth and primal polyrhythms, as well as uniquely reconstructed elements of post-punk and EBM. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn artistic identity that embraces influence yet eschews compromise. Upholding the assaultive intensity of their renowned live shows, Dame Area’s third album \u003ci\u003eToda la mentira sobre Dame Area \/ All the Lies about Dame Area\u003c\/i\u003e nevertheless discloses unexpected developments, a work distinguished by innovation and classicism, discordance and melodicism, the grit of a basement club and the gleam of a radical discotheque. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first of two twin LPs, \u003ci\u003eAll the Lies about Dame Area\u003c\/i\u003e illustrates one world within the wider universe of Dame Area, an album of paradox, which finds the duo at their most explicit and emphatic, but which also sees them detour, into some of their most experimental material to date. Across eight tracks, Dame Area assert an original, seductive idea of pop, laced with avant-garde subversion. Gridlocked minimal synth mechanics are riven with insurgent noise and dub echoes on ‘La Nueva Era’ (‘The New Era’) while the fierce hedonism of ‘Innamorata del tuo Controllo’ (‘In Love with your Control’) evokes striking alternative histories; Gino Soccio meets Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, the Italo years of Liaisons Dangereuses, Nitzer Ebb reworked by Bobby O.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Conversely, the disarming finale ‘A volte me sembra’ (‘Sometimes it seems to me’) is dreamlike and winsome, the sound of an auspicious horizon, hitting the sweet spot somewhere between Chris \u0026amp; Cosey’s ‘October Love Song’, the Dorothy ‘I Confess’ 7” on Industrial Records, as well as the finer moments of Martin Dupont and early Human League. Yet throughout these highlights and beyond, Dame Area establish their own voice, as vivid derivation becomes transformation and inspirations are redefined. Dame Area have been accurately described as purveyors of combat music - ‘Música de lucha’ - rather than producers of dance music. This holds true on ‘All the Lies about Dame Area’. However, their sense of contention here is expansive and dynamic. ‘All the Lies about Dame Area’ is a record of tension and surprise, where the distinction between melody and abstraction is thrillingly undetermined. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA provocative record for the here and now, which proves Dame Area are never easily contained.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BFE Records","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50505755558219,"sku":"2004559","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Dame_Area_-_Toda_la_mentira_sobre_Dame_Area_00cf46d0_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727816494"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/dame-area.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}