Audio By Carbonatix
Time to get nostalgic over ’90s-era electro-industrial music yet? If so, James Geist, Necrotek’s dark conjurer, is ready to capitalize. His one-man band, to be featured at a Friday, March 13, CD-release party at Tracks, uses virtually all of the subgenre’s time-tested elements: doomy melodies, snappy beats, synthetic instrumentation and the juxtaposition of growled vocals and speech samples straight out of grade-Z cinema. Note that cannibalism is mentioned in two of the first three songs, the EKG-like “Drugsick” and the appropriately ghoulish title cut. Innovative? Nope — but the style’s drama-soaked malevolence has been on the downlow for long enough that songs such as “200666,” which merges dance rhythms with twisted repetitions of the phrase “I’ll kill you!,” seem pretty death-disco-tastic anyhow. Wow: I’m starting to feel misty.
