Cubanate

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Cubanate
General information
Genre (s) Crossover , techno , metal , drum and bass , electronica
founding 1992, 2010
resolution 1998
Founding members
Marc Heal
Phil Barry
Keyboard
Graham Rayner
Steve Etheridge
Current occupation
singing
Marc Heal
guitar
Phil Barry
former members
Keyboard
Graham Rayner
Drums, percussion
Steve Etheridge
Live cast Cyberia tour
guitar
Shep Ashton (1995-1996)
Keyboard
Darren Bennett (1995-1996)

Cubanate is an English band formed in 1992 by Marc Heal and Phil Barry in London . The name comes from the Cuban 8 flight maneuver .

Band history

Marc Heal and Phil Barry founded the music project Cubanate as a reaction to the electro bands, which they found boring , who "hide their faces behind synthesizers during live performances" . The focus was on the idea of ​​writing dance-floor-oriented songs and combining techno beats with metal guitars.

Shortly thereafter, the two musicians Graham Rayner and Steve Etheridge completed the band, the quartet signed a contract with Dynamica , a sub-label of the record company Machinery , and soon after released the Maxi Body Burn , of which the title track became a club hit. Rayner and Ethridege left Cubanate before their first album was released, Heal and Barry henceforth worked again as a duo on further material.

The debut Antimatter was released in 1993, shortly thereafter the EP Metal . The title Metal should deliberately cause confusion, because on the EP Cubanate did not offer metal stylistically , but rather techno , trance and house- oriented remixes of their side project D-Code ; Heal commented that an EP that was stylistically based on metal would probably have called the band " EBM ".

The second album Cyberia was released in 1995 and a tour with Front Line Assembly followed , before the third album Barbarossa was released in April 1996 . The title of the album refers to the code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, Operation Barbarossa . With this album, Heal intended to "depict the connection between personal and political violence." At the same time, the group signed a contract with the US record company Wax Trax! Records , a sub-label of TVT Records .

In 1998 the fourth and final studio album Interference was released , for which Cubanate collaborated with the producer and musician Rhys Fulber (Front Line Assembly, Will ), among others . Some of the songs on the album were remixed by techno / Goa trance and drum and bass greats like Juno Reactor , Empirion and Deep Rooted and released on Maxis 9:59 and Voids .

The project has been active again since October 2010 and has announced new material for 2011. We are Crowd was released in January 2011 as part of the Electronic Body Matrix 1 compilation - the first new song since the Search Engine demos in over 10 years .

Style and texts

The crossover style of Cubanate initially mixed metal guitars with techno -Sounds and was in the print media of the 1990 u. a. as Tekkno Metal titled. The band distanced itself from the electro / industrial scene, to which Cubanate was often assigned.

While the 1995 album Cyberia was characterized by a continuous rhythm, “more breaks and unusual passages” were integrated into the compositions of the subsequent work Barbarossa . In addition, Cubanate placed more emphasis on alienated vocals, the guitars were used less distorted and metal-oriented. Marc Heal indicated the influence of the Front Line Assembly group for this step of change . On the 1998 album Interference mainly electronica , especially drum and bass elements were used.

In his texts and ideas, Heal was inspired by cyberpunk and other science fiction , among other things . Texts such as those on Body Burn and Skeletal can be interpreted as "the destruction of human bodies", but according to the band, they have no deeper meaning.

Discography

Studio albums

  • 1993: Antimatter
  • 1995: Cyberia
  • 1996: Barbarossa
  • 1998: Interference
  • 2019: Colossus

Singles and EPs

  • 1993: Body Burn
  • 1994: Junky
  • 1994: Metal (EP)
  • 1994: Oxyacetalene (EP)
  • 1996: Joy
  • 1998: 9:59
  • 1998: Voids

Compilations and live albums

  • 2017: Brutalism
  • 2018: Live Brutalism

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f g h i j k Jan Liebricht: Interview with Cubanate , Vertigo Musikmagazin, issue 3/96, p. 4, autumn 1996.
  2. a b Bodystyler music magazine: Interview with Cubanate , issue 5/99, p. 57, June 1999.
  3. a b c d Jan Liebricht: Interview with Cubanate , Vertigo Musikmagazin, issue 3/96, p. 5, autumn 1996.
  4. MySpace Blog - Cubanate ReUnited?
  5. a b Cubanate on Facebook , accessed on February 24, 2011.

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