Sonic Dragolgo – Don’t Stop The Music

Kozaburo Narita, Sonic Dragolgo's real name, comes from noise. Japanese noise, to be precise. But the days when he pushed his live audience to the wall with the most brute gabba-noise mixture and bloodcurdling roars - for example at the Klangkrieg Fuck Parade Party 2000 - are over. What Narita serves us on his longlplay debut is more a kind of free interpretation of Madonna, the B-52s, Phillip Boa, Scooter and the Ramones. Or to put it differently and more briefly: Incredible stuff! No one could have guessed that such a thing existed. Not even the hard-nosed promoters and label bosses at Klangkrieg headquarters. Sonic Dragolgo has evolved from a pure noise act to a stadium-sized rave machine. Quite right: this is BIG. Catchy songs - heck: HITS - enriched with metal guitars, euphoric noise attacks and super thick, overdriven beats. And the whole thing in song format, properly with verse chorus and everything that goes with it. This is the interface between hardcore techno, metal, noise and flowers. In between, tracks like "Deep Angel" or "Emergency Code" sound like a mixture of Jeff Mills and open-air disco. As I said: nobody could have guessed that something like this existed. Hardcore has never been so much fun.