Edição #14
Lisboa, 2011
“DKANDLE weaves swirling multi-colored vibrant unearthly soundscapes, blending fuzzy and reverberating Shoegaze textures, mesmerizing Dream Pop meditations, sludgy Grungey tones and moody Post-punk strains, heightened with soul-stirring lyricism and pensive emotive vocalizations”
Aliencore is the electro-rock project produced by Denis Kandle (editor of Tranzine). Aliencore goes to the core of Rock'n'Roll: letting the stones roll.
Aliencore is alien feelings translated into sound. It’s about not feeling like the majority. It’s about feeling strange in the crowd—and being proud of it! It’s about not being tied to a past era or an established formula.
Aliencore is a constant revolution against the monotony and standardisation prevalent in the current rock scene.
Rock has always been about defiance. The central idea (core) has always been to challenge the established, the rigid concept. No musician can say they make Rock while being faithful to Rock, as contradictory as that may sound. Whenever someone discovers a "formula" and sticks to it, they are rooted to the ground and can’t move beyond it, trapped in their eternal certainty. Many remain stuck in this formula, failing to evolve or grow, living in endless repetition. This cannot happen in Rock'n'Roll! The very essence of Rock demands that it be betrayed: sticking to a pre-established formula is the antithesis of Rock. Are you just going to copy your idols? The Stones must Roll, that’s what Rock'n'Roll is all about!
Aliencore has released two remixes so far: one for the track 'Mindkiss' by Johann Heyss, and the other for the track 'Come and Fall' by Wry, which opens the album Wry Remixes, released in 2009. (EDIT 2024: In 2018, Aliencore released the album Over the Moon—listen and download HERE).
The songs were conceived in 2006 when Denis lived in Sao Paulo, Brazil, for one year, and were heavily inspired by the city's greyer and more industrial vibe.
Let the Rock Roll!
ALIENCORE - INDUSTRIAL 4.0
Ricardo Antonio
Welcome to the chaos.
The oil is gone.
Climate change is already part of our daily lives.
Plastic? Think of a substitute.
Binary gender? A thing of the past.
Smile. Not a stone will be left unturned from our old civilisational model. In less than 100 years, the world as we know it will no longer exist. A new zeitgeist is already showing its face and, regardless of any resistance from certain sectors, it will take hold on the planet, anyway.
Anyone feeling insecure?
Perhaps not.
Chaos only disorients and frightens those who once lived in an era of (supposed) certainties and consensus. Those born in chaos are as familiar with it as a dolphin is with water.
That’s Aliencore. It’s music born in the 21st century, perfectly suited to swim in this delightful ocean of uncertainties and the reinvention of our beloved civilisation.
How can one be pessimistic?
Pessimism is outdated. It’s become merely a reference.
Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Carl Cox, Aphex Twin. Blade Runner, Black Mirror, Tresor’s dance floor, mind the gap!
Aliencore’s sound is pure Industrial 4.0.
It’s the “internet of things,” stem cells, implanted chips. Electronic bits in their subcutaneous phase. Almost lymphatic.
We are connected to each other and to the machines.
It’s the sound of essence, of chaos, from where all things are born.
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