The Lilt.
Been listening to a lot of Unter Null lately. A Wumpscut/Suicide Commando-esque project by a woman named Erica Debham.
Indeed you have to listen carefully to even hear that the vocals are of the feminine sort, such is the processing and distortion. With so many male fronted 'angry' ebm bands out there (although a lot less than there used to be) its very cool hearing a womans take on the genre.
I look thru all the music ive aquired, test driven, liked, disliked and kept and i can only find a handful of women in the mix. Industrial music it would seem is not condusive to female vocalists, or indeed musicians. I heard ppl say dry, melancholic/angry keyboard music just doesnt suit the more melodious lilt of the female vocal pitch range. With distortion, it becomes a mute point as depending on the processing, a womans voice can sound pretty much the same as a mans.
Alongside Unter Null there is Yendri. Publically a born woman but supposedly a M2F transgender. Her albums are a web of deception as she is the only stated creator of the work, yet her albums, are filled with both male and female vox, the male sounding masculine and dispassionate, the female passionate and melachollic, both suitably hidden behind processing, such that you cant tell if the'yre truly what they sound like. Lillith, Yendri's side project makes the gender confusion even more pronounced, given Lillith's vocals sound female yet in a strange way.
Kati and Gini of Tristesse De La Lune pull off wondefully ethereal vocals, the kind that youd expect from a well strung goth band, but implemented into rolling, organic electro, the kind that haunts and dispells. Understated in both english and deutsche .
Sandrine Gouriou from Seize is an exception to the rule that high pitched bright vocals dont mix with drudging, synthetic, minor keyed music. But then again, Seize is a more technological rather than drudging kinda industrial band, more in league with recent Front Line Assembly and Negative Format. he vocals very much suit this type of technologically agressive yet fluent music.
Victoria Lloyd of Claire Voyant sings with Daniel Meyer in HMB, an album called Great Industrial Love Affairs, and her voice is so sultry and smooth its almost scary, the kind of voice you'd want to just fade away to. She fronts Claire Voyant, a synth pop/goth band im not too keen on. She sounds similar to Kristen Kowalksi (aka 99 Kowalski) who sang on the Front 242 Albums Up Evil and Off, the song 'Crushed' being one of my favorites from the 242 camp.
Nadine Seltzer sang on a variety of In Strict Confidence albums taking ethereal vocals to a new plane thanks to her delivery, accent and some very sultry processing, 'Blue Light' from the Babylon MCD a highlight. Antje Schultz is ISC's more recent female member, singing on the last few of their albums.
The Parallel Project, a collaboration between Negative Format and a variety of vocalists ranging from VNV Nations Mark Jackson to Daniel Mayer. Striking out are the vocals of Kristy Venrick from The Azoic. Hers must be the most powerful unprocessed vocals ive heard. Very striking.
Tieing Negative Format and Tristesse De la Lune in together is Rashree Matson, who sings vocals with Negative Format, Parallel Project and does a wonderous job on Tristesse De La Lunes 'Time Is Moving Faster'
Then theres Lucia Cifarelli, from KMFDM and Jade 4U from Lords of Acid, both kinda Riiiooot Girrrrl singers, who do a lot of shouting, indeed quite a bit more than their male counterparts.
Indeed you have to listen carefully to even hear that the vocals are of the feminine sort, such is the processing and distortion. With so many male fronted 'angry' ebm bands out there (although a lot less than there used to be) its very cool hearing a womans take on the genre.
I look thru all the music ive aquired, test driven, liked, disliked and kept and i can only find a handful of women in the mix. Industrial music it would seem is not condusive to female vocalists, or indeed musicians. I heard ppl say dry, melancholic/angry keyboard music just doesnt suit the more melodious lilt of the female vocal pitch range. With distortion, it becomes a mute point as depending on the processing, a womans voice can sound pretty much the same as a mans.
Alongside Unter Null there is Yendri. Publically a born woman but supposedly a M2F transgender. Her albums are a web of deception as she is the only stated creator of the work, yet her albums, are filled with both male and female vox, the male sounding masculine and dispassionate, the female passionate and melachollic, both suitably hidden behind processing, such that you cant tell if the'yre truly what they sound like. Lillith, Yendri's side project makes the gender confusion even more pronounced, given Lillith's vocals sound female yet in a strange way.
Kati and Gini of Tristesse De La Lune pull off wondefully ethereal vocals, the kind that youd expect from a well strung goth band, but implemented into rolling, organic electro, the kind that haunts and dispells. Understated in both english and deutsche .
Sandrine Gouriou from Seize is an exception to the rule that high pitched bright vocals dont mix with drudging, synthetic, minor keyed music. But then again, Seize is a more technological rather than drudging kinda industrial band, more in league with recent Front Line Assembly and Negative Format. he vocals very much suit this type of technologically agressive yet fluent music.
Victoria Lloyd of Claire Voyant sings with Daniel Meyer in HMB, an album called Great Industrial Love Affairs, and her voice is so sultry and smooth its almost scary, the kind of voice you'd want to just fade away to. She fronts Claire Voyant, a synth pop/goth band im not too keen on. She sounds similar to Kristen Kowalksi (aka 99 Kowalski) who sang on the Front 242 Albums Up Evil and Off, the song 'Crushed' being one of my favorites from the 242 camp.
Nadine Seltzer sang on a variety of In Strict Confidence albums taking ethereal vocals to a new plane thanks to her delivery, accent and some very sultry processing, 'Blue Light' from the Babylon MCD a highlight. Antje Schultz is ISC's more recent female member, singing on the last few of their albums.
The Parallel Project, a collaboration between Negative Format and a variety of vocalists ranging from VNV Nations Mark Jackson to Daniel Mayer. Striking out are the vocals of Kristy Venrick from The Azoic. Hers must be the most powerful unprocessed vocals ive heard. Very striking.
Tieing Negative Format and Tristesse De la Lune in together is Rashree Matson, who sings vocals with Negative Format, Parallel Project and does a wonderous job on Tristesse De La Lunes 'Time Is Moving Faster'
Then theres Lucia Cifarelli, from KMFDM and Jade 4U from Lords of Acid, both kinda Riiiooot Girrrrl singers, who do a lot of shouting, indeed quite a bit more than their male counterparts.