/Psychedelic, Experimental
rock, Electronic, Big beat, Progressive rock, Krautrock, Avant-fusion, Alternative
dance, Avant-rock, Leftfield, Avant-prog/
Comment: Joxfield ProjeX is a duo from Sweden
whose members Oax, and Yan started to make music already in the 60s. They
gained some popularity at the end of 00s and in the beginning of 10s while
releasing a handful of albums under Clinical Archive, the most popular record
label at Archive.org. Furthermore, some of these albums were assisted by such
progressive rock music legends as Pat Mastoletto, and Geoff Leigh and
electronic musician Kenji Siratori. I am very glad they are still very prolific
because Dark Pitch is a part of the
EP series. It involves 4 tracks depicting the duo`s keenness to craftily master
distortion-heavy, wah effect-induced guitar rides with bold, motorik big beat
rhythms. Despite its towering propulsive nature the EP sounds almost like a
static one due to the repetition of motives and phrases. The result is a
dance-appealed avant-garde fusion with nods toward psychedelic world. There can
be drawn comparisons with the 70s in Germany and the end of 80s and beginning
of 90s in Manchester (and with some groups outside it like Flowered Up, The
Telescopes, and The Wordsmiths, for instance). In a word, it is a modern yet
natural, highly energized rock propulsion. It is without being fake, it is
without being hammy. Joxfield ProjeX is still one of the most outstanding
combos worldwide.
