Zombie Nation
Leichenschmaus

LA RECENSIONE

1999 - a year marking the end of a millennium, but more simply the Short Century. Perhaps it is destiny that the first album of the Zombie Nation project should be released just at the end of the century, as a warning to us Westerners, who truly are becoming a nation of zombies...

"Electro, electro, maybe hip-hop, a bit more electro, disco and sometimes, just for spice, a pinch of punk." This is how a well-known London critic succinctly describes the music of Zombie Nation. After years of hiding in small night raves, Mr. Splank! and Mr. Mooner emerge from the underground of German and English cities to record their first album, Leichenshmauss, dedicated to electronics. A production that skillfully blends electro (electro with a punch) with trip-hop, with distant echoes of jazz, a good combination that knows how to make itself heard. A glance at the cover says more or less what could be said with a hundred words about the spirit of the album; some consider it a caricature of Nevermind...
And what if Nevermind had instead evolved into Leichenshmauss? Haven't we humans transformed that child who was happily swimming in clear water into a bloated corpse floating in an infected liquid? The interpretation is up to you...

Nevertheless, the clear and shocking irony of the two DJs remains, who do not fail to dedicate their music to dark and frightening atmospheres, as can be felt walking in a forest of dead trees or in a deserted city.
A note of disdain goes to some tracks that are really too unz!unz!unz! which terribly (damn it!) ruin the entire production.