Lords of Acid - Voodoo-U

Lords of Acid is the EDM project of Praga Khan and which ever female vocalist was hanging out with him at the time. Their sophomore album is considered an industrial album, and now would be a good time to really delve into what that really means.

When i talked about Throbbing Gristle, i mentioned the idea that this is music from an "industrialized" mindset. Machinery, violence, noise, force, the removal of nature and humanity for mass production and consumption. It very much originated in England, but found a second home in Chicago. From the very beginning it was the genre of the margins of society: LGBT, LaVayan satanism (which is really just complete individual freedom), anarchists (both classical and destructive), and any other marginalized groups felt drawn to the violent crash of sampled drums, chainsaw guitar riffs, electronic chaos, and just talking about the horrible side of life in general. The common thread is provocative (like punk) electronic music emphasizing heavy artificial sound production and repetition over more traditional compositional methods. The sound of machines making music.

Voodoo-U is really just extreme rave music: sex, drugs, sex and drugs, sex and drugs are good, sex and drugs are bad, i have to buy cheap food because i spent all my money on heroin, look at that coked up bitch, crabs actually make me orgasm. There are moments of jungle, house, reggae, and metal, but the overwhelming aura of this album is mechanical hedonism. That hedonism has its good and bad sides, but we're just here to dance until we fall down dead. Stop being such a prude and love this album as much as i do.

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