Title: Futurefunk
Artist: Mandroid
Label: Dominance Electricity
Cat Number: DR-031.014
Genre: Electro
A1: Jupitor
A2: Population Overdrive
A3: Beyond Space Beyond Life
B1: Ikon Symbol
B2: Sinister Overtones
B3: New Wave Freaks
B4: Futurefunk
I’ve just had the wonderful idea of turning my Discogs purchases into a series, as if I didn’t fill this blog with enough froth to start with. So, although this is not my first ever acquisition on said site, it is my first this year and a great one to get the ball rolling. More like a mini album than a single, ‘Futurefunk’ is a concise evocation of future days long gone and those yet to come. Mandroid, aka Adrian D. Rataj, is, according to his Discogs profile “A breakdancer / producer / plasterer from Barnsley in South Yorkshire. Mandroid is the old-school master, he is the prince of the vocoder. He makes beautiful funky melodic brooding electro music and drives a turbo Mini.” If that doesn’t get you interested there’s no excuse. This release reeks of symphonic eighties electronica; ‘Beyond Space Beyond Life’ sounds like the theme music to a seventies science show on steroids. ‘Ikon Symbol’ has its vocoders in order and its electro credentials throbbing. Yu can imagine being behind the wheel of a Ford Granada in 1983 at midnight. ‘Sinster Overtones’ intones itself in rhyme with “Shake you down to the bones”. It’s corny at times, but irresistible in its funky grind. ‘New Wave Freaks’ has echoes of ‘Micro Phonies’ era Cabaret Voltaire. ‘Jupitor’ emphasizes the grandiosity of its subject, as well as the space around it, while ‘Population Overdrive’ goes full on sinister, eerie soundtrack with more vocoders. It’s a composite, but complete release that deserves to be blasted out from analogue car sound systems everywhere late at night while racing around industrial estates.
Here’s an interview which was conducted with Mandroid around the time of release of ‘Futurefunk’.
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