Moderator - Unspoken

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Culture Beat

Releases on March 21st 2021. Pre-orders February 21st.
Limited edition in 2 available color LPs purple and smokey marbled purple.
Melting Records - https://melting-records.bandcamp.com

The best movies are the midnight movies, cult films played for deviant, open-minded audiences long after sundown. These films are experiences, usually in the genres of horror, hippie-delia, or total freak-show. This midnight movie vibe is sonically captured by Moderator on his latest album for Melting Records, Midnight Madness. The famed Athens-based producer has assembled 14 tracks that run the gamut, each one evoking the devilish unpredictability of cult cinema and the dopeness of a phat break.

Moderator is known for his extensive musical knowledge, with his tastes running from hip-hop to rockabilly, dub to Memphis soul, and all points in-between. On Midnight Madness, these genres intersect in dreamlike scenes from imaginary movies. There’s “Unspoken,” with its Latin-psychedelics, wah-wah guitar riffs, and rousing trumpet, resembling an alternate universe Morricone. Camp spookiness also appears on tunes like “Haunted Lover,” which combines a big breakbeat and vampy vocals for a creature showdown in black and white.

The delightfully strange rears its head on cuts like “Once Upon a Time” and “Crystal Gaze,” both summoning playful witchcraft vibes straight out of a vintage Italian Giallo film. The downtempo flavor is heavy, casting spells on the fussiest of beat-headz. Moderator also whips out some twisted tribal lounge, as “Tamboo” delivers a rhythmic procession of fashionable zombies to the darkly lit dance floor.

Just as midnight movies bring endless surprises, the tracks on Midnight Madness won’t stop revealing after multiple listens. Moderator’s intricate fusions unfold in exotic layers and there are sinister secrets to discover. These movies play on the turntable, in the nightclub, and inside your head. And you don’t have to wait for the witching hour to have a listen.
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releases March 21, 2021

All Tracks Edited, Arranged and Mixed by Moderator
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Added Electric Guitar by Vlad Zameretz, Saxophone by Oleksii Yatsyna, Bass by Franco Modarelli.

Artwork by Irefaels

Graphic Editing by Manolis Chalkiadakis - Backbonegraphics.

Mastered by Blanka at Kasablanka Studio, France.

Executive Producers: Basilis Foteinos & Andreas Pallidis.

Athens 2021

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