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  • The Collection

    ETD034DCD

    Artist: AAAK

    Label: Electric Tremor Dessau

    25 years after having been founded and 20 years after its last release, the British EBM band AS ABLE AS KANE (AAAK) puts an extensive overview of its artistic work into the CD shelves. It's not a best-of compilation listeners can expect but rather the musical development of one of the few British bands in the EBM genre.
    AS ABLE AS KANE (Ding - programming/instruments & Paul R. - vocals) don't belong tothe popular bands, and would probably already have been forgotten in the EBM scene, hadn't they published their "'Big Fist' CD in 1990 with KK Records. The Belgian label, which sadly doesn't exist anymore, was at that time and still is one of the most influential labels for the first and the early second generation of Electronic Body Music. AAAK joined the group of illustrious names such as Vomito Negro, 2nd Communication, The Force Dimension, Cat Rapes Dog, Insekt oder Numb, and survived the past years.
    In the active years of AS ABLE AS KANE, when music still was mostly "hand-made" and you couldn't create a song just by a few clicks of the computer, they composed their first demo songs which found their place on the second CD of THE COLLECTION in newly mastered form. Not clean and catchy but with a mix of punk, old school industrial and electronic noise, the old demo tracks are not what you would call danceable ear candy. Nevertheless, you can immediately sense that they loved to experiment and searched for a new, individual musical style which always did without being con...