Maschinenkrieger KR52 – Stroke Unit (2024)
Maschinenkrieger was the absolute highlight of the 2024 Wave Gotik Treffen. Half past four in the afternoon, first act of the Täubschental of that day, sunny outside, yet a well filled room with a varried audience as is usual with this type of music.
There is a lot of so-called “rhythmic noise”, especially on the Hands label that also released “Stroke Unit”, but seldom does the style get as noisy as Maschinenkrieger.
So I found myself in a dark room full of wildly dancing people to an energetic piece of ‘indancetrial’ as I used to call it.
Discogs makes it sound as if “Stoke Unit” is the first album under this name, while all previous seven album were made under the monicker “Maschinenkrieger KR52 vs. Disraptor”. Perhaps that means that the project went from being a duo, to a solo project. There was -indeed- but one guy on stage that sunny day.
Music-wise nothing much changed. Maschinenkrieger makes -I said it- a noisy form of “rhythmic noise”. As before, quite a few tracks are ‘mid tempo’, while only a few are more energetic. It is probably hard to tell this album apart from earlier releases, but, it is a descent album and more interesting than most “rhythmic noise” to my ears.
Links: Maschinenkrieger KR52, Hands