Synthetic Symphony announced that Advanced Electronics Vol. 6 is about to be released! This pulse pounding CD contains exclusive tracks, remix’s and video clips from Nitzer Ebb, Iamx, Mesh, Ladytron, Covenant, Skinny Puppy, Funker Vogt, Leaether Strip, Grendel, Mind.In.A.Box, Diary Of Dreams, Destroid, Painbastard and much more.

Advanced Electronics Vol. 6 is the latest installment of one of the biggest and best of all Electro, Techno, Industrial, Electro-Pop and EBM compilations ever! This time, “Volume 6″ of the “Advanced Electronics” series delivers a 2 disc set that is stuffed to the brim with the biggest names, most cutting edge Remix’s and the greatest exclusives tracks from the Electro scene!

Volume 6 also includes, at no further expense to you, a Full-Length 17 track video-clip DVD. Totaling 34 audio tracks and over 2 hours of music, “Advanced Electronics Vol. 6” delivers a must have package for any Electro fan! This glorious CD is due to hit the shelves on February 22nd, 2008 and is brought to you by the Synthetic Symphony who’s parent company is SPV Recordings.

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I think everyone has music that speaks to them in various ways. An earlier post was constructed explaining how Industrial music has a Personal Message in every song that is created. The personal message is one everyone gets out of the song and not necessarily directly from the artists. With that being said, I wonder if everyone has a comfort song by a different artist each month. What happens to your comfort song when you get tired of the beat, voice, message, and overall way it makes you feel?

I know right now, one major song that I find soothing, is Covenant’s song “Atlas”. It’s mellower than say “Call the Ships to Port” and “We Want Revolution”, but the song is just as powerful in the beat and lyrical composition. It’s been awhile since I’ve listened to this song due to the memories that flood me when I do, but this morning upon creating the daily playlist, without thinking I put it in and when it came on it gave me a feeling of relief. It’s amazing how some songs are so pleasing to a person that it has a greater effect on them other than just a smile or funky jig.

The song is a downer in some ways but it doesn’t feel that way. The beat is slow and not very up beat, but Eskil Simonsson’s voice delivers is what many say, “haunting, dark, and majestic”, but he does it to an extent that makes the song very deep. He actually uplifts the song so that it isn’t depressing and turns it into one that is rather empowering if you let yourself sit back and really listen to it.

Atlas is off the bands fifth album “Northern Light”, and had help from Rammstien producer Jacob Hellner. This 2002 album was nothing sort then a masterpiece and Covenant listeners worldwide are in agreement…

Not everyone will have the same view as I do on this song as far as how deep I find it to be but many club goers and heavy industrial lovers have seen where I am coming from. Hell, a few actually contacted me and screamed “Holy crap you’re right, I never looked at the song like this!”

Now the question is: Can you see it?

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Year after year, music is not only changing because it wants to, but also because people demand it to. Hip – Hop wasn’t as prevalent sounding as it was in the past. This so because society demanded a new form of it and the hip hop found today is the outcome.  

The same goes for industrial. Too many rivitheads and industrialists are clinging to the old form and not accepting the new. This is unfair to not only the bands that are coming out, but too many people who wish to find information and new bands in this great genre.

Why many people do this, I have no idea. Perhaps they are leaving their comfort zone if they accept bands like Covenant or Combichrist as Industrial. Maybe they are just having trouble knowing that they are growing older with each passing year and the fact that industrial music doesn’t sound the same as it used to. Maybe that is breaking their hearts. The worst part of it could be the fact that these people just aren’t considerate or even wise enough to understand that nothing stays the same forever and are having trouble letting go.  

Whatever the reason maybe, these people need to quit while they are ahead and stop trying to ruin something that is good, just because they aren’t able to comprehend what is going on. I’m not dissing or trying to bad mouth these people in anyway, but what I am saying is simply this.

LOOSEN UP. IT’S MUSIC.

Music is meant to be enjoyed by all. Industrial doesn’t have to be your preferred genre, and no one is saying it has to be. No one is also saying that just because these newer bands do not sound like the older bands that they are NOT industrial.

The fact is they are. Combichrist, Cruxshadows, Covenant, VNV Nation (YES I SAID IT), and the newer F.L.A and Front 242 are IN FACT, industrial. That is where they have their inspiration and that is their sound. It is okay to choose not to accept them as industrial, but to say they are in no way shape or form industrial is just rude. Please people; don’t ruin something so good for others due to being biased.

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