Dame Area - Toda la Verdad Sobre Dame Area '2024

Tracks list

On September 13th, 2024, Dame Area will unveil their 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.

Formed 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.

This 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.

Tracks 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."

The 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."

Elsewhere, "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."

With 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. 

Tracklist:
1-1. Dame Area - Si No Es Hoy Cuándo Es (05:33)
1-2. Dame Area - Vengo Dall'aldilà (03:14)
1-3. Dame Area - Sempre Cambiare (02:55)
1-4. Dame Area - Urlo Di Guerra (02:58)
1-5. Dame Area - Striscia (04:48)
1-6. Dame Area - Tú Me Hiciste Creer (06:00)
1-7. Dame Area - Devoción (03:52)
1-8. Dame Area - Esto Es Nuestro Ruido (04:49)
1-9. Dame Area - Si No Eres Nada Puedes Ser Todo (02:35)

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