Reaper - Babylon Killed The Music

Vasi Vallis (Frozen Plasma, NamNamBulu, Future lied to us) aka "Reaper" is back! After the debut album "Hell starts with an H", "Reaper" returns with a true masterpiece as colorful as the former Babylon city, the home of man, varied and complex, powerful and melancholic!

The album is where the 80s and 90s melt and the 2000s kick in. Techno meets New Beat, Industrial meets TBM, 90s meets synth wave colored with 80s influences. As strange as all this sounds, the breadth of this musical journey is just as great! "Cracking Skull" is the "typical" "Reaper" sound followed by "The Sound of IDS" which is another TBM floorfiller! Track three, "Sledge Hammer" is more poppy, a bit trance-like, building a bridge to "Farewell", a late 80s influenced New Beat song in the vein of "KLF". "We Are Reaper" defines the mid-tempo section with marching beats and massive vocal samples before the album turns back to its club style with "Neophyte". "Footprint" is another musical surprise, mostly ambient, chill-out style but powerful in its sounds and structure. "Aladin Killed JFK" is a true retro 90s Trance/Techno track as energetic as most of the album! "Divide the Sea" comes as the next true surprise, as charming as "Delerium" or even "Enigma" when the album closes with "Silver Love" which could surely also be found on one of the next album releases by Frozen Plasma, Assemblage 23 or VNV Nation, a true synth wave masterpiece.

An album full of diversion, club hits, strong melodies and great ideas!

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