Kloq
“Move Forward”
Label: Out of Line
Official Website
(4.5/5)
Finally comes one album that has been on almost non-stop rotation in our house for the past few weeks. Kloq’s “Move Forward.” Kloq is a recent collaboration of Oz Morsley (from Empirion fame) and Douglas McCarthy from Nitzer Ebb on vocals.
While achieving pretty significant success with their track “Narcotic Influence” as well as some high profile remixes, I’ve always felt that Empirion were rather underappreciated, at least relative to the quality of their music. I often use the term electronica as general descriptor for a broad range of electronic music styles, but in its proper noun form, the term can be used to describe a specific style of 90′s electronic music that was too intelligent to be real dance music but still up-tempo and gripping. Empirion was probably the best example of this style, but there was a certain degree of darkness to their music that separated them from other purveyors of the style, i.e. Coldcut. Read More
