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		Technova - Electrosexual album from Hydrogen Dukebox ('04.5.15) CD (DUKE127CD / import from UK): 1890 yen LP (DUKE127DJV / import from UK): 1733 yen

David HarrowのプロジェクトTECHNOVA 始動!! No WaveでDiscoな待望の新作!!

エレクトロを中心にテクノ、ジャズ、ハウスなど幅広い音を提供し続けるHYDROGEN DUKEBOX（ハイドロゲン・デュークボックス）。今回は、昨年は来日公演も果たしレーベル初となる日本盤アルバム"Big Casino"をヒットさせたJAMES HARDWAYことDavid Harrowの別プロジェクトであるTECHNOVA（テクノヴァ）が待望のニューアルバムをリリース。一部の音はすでにレーベル・コンピレーションである"Electronic Music For Heroes 3"やエレクトラ・クラッシュ／No Wave系の好コンピ"NagNagNag"にも収録され、かなりの問い合わせが殺到。それらの楽曲達に代表される、セクシーさ満ち溢れるエレクトロ・ディスコやニュー・ウェイヴ調でクラブ受けもバッチリしそうな楽曲が満載。７"インチのみで先行シングル・カットされ只今ヒット中のJOY DIVISIONの名曲カバーである"Atmosphere"も収録。David HarrowはAndrew Weatherallとの ユニットBLOOD SUGARでの活動でも知られ、エレクトロニカからハウスなど本当に耳の肥えたアーティストであり本作でもその幅の広さをバッチリ披露している。

track#		title
1		We Got The Beat
2		Watching
3		Atmosphere
4		Can You Resist
5		Mangina
6		I Could Have Sex
7		Mammas Not Dead
8		Free Radical
9		Y Wont U Date Me
10		Pussy Is A Cactus

Dave Harrow - Technova Biog

As a freshly inspired art school graduate with the beginnings of an
insatiable appetite for the unknown, David Harrow - yet to acquire the James
Hardway alter ego - took off to Berlin for a weekend that was to last some
three years. Drawn to the heady club scene exploding within the city and an
atmosphere of bohemian excess, Harrow found himself in the perfect
environment to indulge his musical imagination. Releasing an obscure debut
album, ‘The Secessionists’, led to a collaboration with poet Anne Clark on a
string of electro/new beat albums that sold in spades and established Harrow
as a high profile innovator in Germany (Alec Empire still refers to him as
‘the godfather of techno’). A chance meeting with Jah Wobble led to David
joining Invaders of the Heart, who at that time were a nomadic bunch living
in a bungalow park in Holland. ‘Wobble taught me the importance of getting
the setting and spirituality right for making music’ Harrow recalls,
evidently still indebted to the enigmatic bass-man.

Late 1986 saw Harrow return to London and immediately tune in to acid house
and its cultural by-products before making contact with Adrian Sherwood and
the On-U Sound collective. From that point, he seems to have worked
non-stop, initially collaborating with the likes of Gary Clail, Psychic TV
(Gen is the nearest thing to a true shaman that I’ve met. Even if he did eat
from Adolf Hitler’s cutlery), Lee Perry (‘He has a light bulb in his head
that’s continually on’) and a catalogue of On-U associates whose influences
were to have a profound effect on his subsequent work. In 1994, Harrow
released the groundbreaking ‘Tantric Steps’ album under the guise of
Technova, followed by ‘Transcience’ the following year, both appearing on
Andrew Weatherall’s Sabres label and spawning a seminal collaborative
project between the pair, as Bloodsugar. Meanwhile, by way of light relief,
and true to his ever contrary modus operandi, Harrow also penned Billy Ray
Martin’s multimillion selling hit ‘Your Lovin’ Arms’.

Harrow’s timely return to the Technova project introduces a rich and refined
strain of progressive electronic soul, heavily infused with funky electro
flavours and tuned in to the tastes of the increasingly open-minded punters
out there.

In many ways Dirty Secrets is a bare bones album, a stark and melodic moment
where Harrow relaxes into a seemingly effortless stream of intelligent and
accessible sounds.

With a series of excellent performances from the immaculate JB Rose (whose
vocal lights up the Juan Atkins flavours of forthcoming single System
Overload), and Harrow’s own grainy vocoderisms gracing the contagious
Boxinglove and a future electro-punk anthem Neverstop, this album is a
serious fast-forward for electro-organic fusion.

related artists: A1 People / Technova