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MetalTech are on this show tomorrow, well one of them and some of his labelmates. That band added me aeons ago on Myspace when they noticed I was a Cubanate fan. I've not heard them for ages but it may be worth checking out. Same time & station.

Here's their Myspace bulletin:

As Erik Tricity is a whore, he will be smashing up his guitar with Alex Tronic on Wed nite!!!!!!
I stole this from Asa's blog cos i'm a plagiarizing bastard...but read it and rejoice, humans!

Alex Tronic will be live in session on BBC Radio1 Scotland with Vic Galloway on Wednesday 18th February from midnight through to 2am on Thursday 19th.


Playing tracks from his newly released album 'To Infinity', Alex Tronic will be joined by other musicains from the Alex Tronic record label. On guitars Kevan Whitley from Keser, Erik Tricity from Metaltech and vocalist Åsa Seljestad from the band ÅsA.


You can listen online at www. bbc. co. uk/radio1/vicgalloway

So turn on, plug in and join the party

Other useful links:
www. myspace. co. uk/alextronicrecords
www. alextronicrecords. co. uk
www. myspace. com/keserofscotland
www. myspace. com/metaltech
www. myspace. com/asaofscotland


Reviews



Is this Music-Jonathan Muir
There’s a real air of celebration present here, as this disc marks the 10th album released on Alex Tronic Records. The set’s sheer tightness alone is breathtaking. Tracks are there for just long enough for you to get into them before ending. This means you immediately want to hear them again. Every track is crisp with a real vibrancy at its centre. There are neither monotonous solos nor tracks which you have to be “on one” to get. The whole set is laced with hooks which draw you in and undercurrents to ensure you damned well stay there.

This is enhanced by the inclusion of guest performers, most notably Erik Tricity, guitarist with Scots noise-filth heroes Metal Tech. He laces tracks with a serrated viscerality which slices through the ear canals with manic joy.

Tronic has pulled off that rare trick of blending familiarity with innovation. It sounds truly delicious. Forty nine minutes pass by in half that time and the immediate inclination is to hit the play button and live through it all once more. Memories of your favourite song have already formed long before this disc has stopped spinning. That means it’s one for the end-of-year polls already.


The Daily Record-Rick Fulton
WHEN the boss of a label decides to put out his own record - there's going to be a sucking in of breath. Has he just set the label up as a vanity project, is this really what it's all about, if he's not very good will he hole the good ship? Fortunately for Alex Tronic (realname Paul Croan) of the great Edinburgh-based Alex Tronic Records - he's got the goods and then some. While he's released Binary Zero, Sixpeopleaway, Keser, Roys Iron DNA and Pockets of Resistance for me his own album blows them out of the water. It's a sublime techno journey at times like a disco night in a David Lynch film. From the hard graft of NIN to the blissed out Beloved there's something for anyone who likes electronic music. The album kicks off in style with the rootsy trance of Life's A Dream (In Ma Scratcher) whose addictive harpisord-like synth drips down like molten lightbulbs. From trance to a mash-up of U2 and NIN, In Flight is the album's highlight. It starts quietly with Edge like guitar then begins a tribal Leftield throb blasting you with nuclear electro and guitar riffs. That's just the first two tunes. What a journey.

The album is out now