As the futurepop scene grows and grows, there is a number of bands that are progressing the EBM sound without going all the way back to synthpop for inspiration. Flesh Field are probably the most prominent of these bands, but with "Dos_Unit", E\Craft show they are a force to be reckoned with. So, like Flesh Field, you have the harsh EBM rhythms and vocals, elements of dance music giving it a dancefloor cred, though E\Craft don't have any female vocals to soften the sound at all. As a result, this is fairly harsh stuff when the vocals are going full on, like on the opener 'Fahrenheit', but that's not always the case. On other tracks, like the rave-influenced 'Embryonic' the vocals are pushed deeper into the mix and aren't quite as harsh, in fact you could almost call the sneering sound singing! And 'Puppet nation' has such a fabulous dance beat that you don't even notice the vocals until the chorus, which has a distorted robotic sound that you could almost sing along to. 'Scan Error', which has a more tradition harsh EBM sound, doesn't even have any vocals. The title track, on the other hand, is a very coldwave sounding number and the excessively harsh vocals do drag it down, showing how the wrong vocals can ruin a good track, but the full-on techno sound of 'Cybernetic intelligence' more than makes up for it. 'Final cutoff' is a very nice slice of old school F242-esque EBM, robotic vocals and all. It all wraps up with the slow electro build of 'Civilisation', which explodes into full-on dancefloor mania. This is a somewhat patchy release, but there's a lot of real hits on here that more than make up for the odd miss.

>>E-CRAFT
>>Ausfart Recording

Out of the sludge filled sewers and scrap metal heaps of New York City comes the hard hitting industrial power noise phenomenon know as TERRORFAKT.

nfluenced by such established artists as Controlled Bleeding, Converter, Hypnoskull, Monolith, Merzbow, Haujobb, and Synapscape, TERRORFAKT's sound ranges from powerful dancefloor anthems to ambient soundscapes and pure experimental noise structures.

With two albums released it's only a matter of time before TERRORFAKT becomes a household name for harsh industrial power noise. Their first release "We Know Pain" featured intense dance floor stomping tracks such as "Pure", "We Know Pain", and "Slut". These songs became smash club hits across America thanks to such Djs as 2501 (Washington D.C.), HELLRAVER (NYC & Boston), Punketta Dollie (Boston), DJ Gyn (NYC), Replikant (Kansas City, Mo) and several others.

TERRORFAKT's remix/cover version of the Ant-Zen classic "Gelobnis" by P.A.L was so well received that the originators of the song, P.A.L, themselves asked permission to play this cover on a few of their own European shows. An Mp3 version of this remix can be downloaded from: http://jon.lagparty.org/TFakt-gelobnisRMX.mp3

TERRORFAKT's remix work did not stop there however, soon came remix for such Bands as E-Craft, NeikkaRPM, Poitive Complex, Dubok, Massiv In Mensch and several others.

The United States got their first taste of the TERRORFAKT live show as the band spent the month of April on the road as direct support for German Industrialists E-Craft. Expect to see and head more of this band in the future, another East Coast tour, as well as a Full U.S. tour are currently in the planning stages, along with a slew of one off shows.

>>TERRORFAKT
>>Tinman Recording