Molotov 20. Mechanical Love.

This is an engaging CD of fierce industrial electronica - and I mean industrial in the literal sense that most of the percussion grows out of the sounds of machinery, of metal on metal and great unknowable machines. Repetitive, mechanistic beats and grindy walls of sound texture are laid down as a base to more pensive and bleak synth melodies. A cyber world of the future is evoked. Human voices are present in only a handful of the tracks, and are used mostly in the style of samples.

This appears to be the only 'hard' electronica album available here on umka at this time of writing, which is a shame, because it's memorable, visceral, and demonstrates a very singular aural vision(!). I'd love to hear a second CD from Molotov 20, or just more hard electronica in general from The Ukraine. Very good stuff.