The Empire Line - Rave - Northern Electronics

The Empire Line presents six cyclonic episodes for confined spaces on their debut album, Rave. Comprised of Posh Isolation s Christian Stadgaard (Damien Dubrovnik, Vanity Productions), Jonas Ronnberg (Varg), and with Isak Hansen (Iron Sight) on tantrums, the trio s marauding live shows have been translated into a slippery set of pummelling techno works, watermarked with florid noise. Rave is a celebration of contemporary rave culture, focused on the everlasting and transcendent as the night slips out past the day. With living-for-the-weekend hedonism irretrievably converted into a manicured, violent cliche, building new worlds and forging new modes of intimacy takes an exceptional sincerity. Naming some of the crews closest to The Empire Line in the album s titles, their spaces are examples of just how rave culture persists as a transgressive stronghold in people s lives. Ranging from k-hole anthems to jacking, close-range sessions, Rave still bears the traces of the group s experimental background, ensuring the tension is kept up through the catharsis.