The latest trend in electronic music has been… to make it soulful, less machine-like. That’s a stance the fathers of the genre (namely, Kraftwerk and Devo) would find borderline heretic. Shouldn’t electronic music BE about the machine? Shouldn’t it be a celebration of it? Luckily for all you synth worshippers, Brooklyn already has the antidote to the de-mechanization of electronic rock, and it’s called Operator Music Band. The quartet just released their second EP, appropriately titled ‘Matérielmusik‘ (i.e. ‘material music,’ not music of the soul!), which puts synths back at the core of everything, while vocals become little more than a regular instrument. See them live at Palisades on February 26th.
