{"id":24507,"date":"2024-07-07T22:07:58","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T22:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/?p=24507"},"modified":"2024-07-07T22:10:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T22:10:08","slug":"haujobb-in-the-headlights-retro-futuristic-single-by-german-electro-industrial-act-out-now-included-on-new-album-out-20-09-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2024\/07\/07\/haujobb-in-the-headlights-retro-futuristic-single-by-german-electro-industrial-act-out-now-included-on-new-album-out-20-09-24\/","title":{"rendered":"HAUJOBB: ‘In The Headlights’ – retro-futuristic single by German electro-industrial act out now included on new album out 20.09.24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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German electro-industrial mainstays\u00a0Haujobb<\/strong>\u00a0have just dropped the sinister sounding retro-futuristic slo-mo banger\u00a0‘In The Headlights’ as the first single from their forthcoming new album, ‘The Machine In The Ghost’. Scheduled for release on 20th\u00a0September, it is the 10th full length record by the Prague-based group, which formed in 1992 and has existed as the duo of Daniel Myer (vocals\/programming) and Dejan Samardzic (programming) since the mid-\u201890s.
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\u201c’In The Headlights’ was actually one of the first tracks written for the album,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>explains Myer.\u00a0“Dejan recorded and sampled his exhaust hood, which kind of sounds like a jet engine, and we built the song around that sample. There is also a sound that might be identified\u00a0as a tambourine, which is really just a key chain dropping onto the floor. This and other physical constructions that are sampled throughout the album act as relics of interfaces between man and machine.\u201d<\/em>

Maintaining an impressive penchant for refusing to do the same thing twice on each studio album, ‘The Machine In The Ghost’ deploys field recordings to create some of its most prominent sounds.\u00a0In order\u00a0to achieve the desired effect,\u00a0the duo used a mix of software and hardware in the shape of everyday items.\u00a0This deliberate nod to a previous era with more analogue shifting of the dials complements the retro theme of \u2018The Machine In The Ghost\u2019 (albeit\u00a0without indulging in nostalgia for its own sake), the album revolving around the highly charged relationship between mind and matter, analogue and digital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite their constant artistic evolution, a unique musical handwriting is present throughout the Haujobb catalogue. Originally founded as a trio in the West German city of Bielefeld, they were initially influenced by the \u2018Vancouver school\u2019 of industrial electronics (the likes of Skinny Puppy and Front Line Assembly), but it did not take long for them to be recognised as figureheads of a more modern take on this sound that incorporated elements of IDM (intelligent dance music) that helped catapult them onto the wider international scene.

Co-founding member Bj\u00f6rn J\u00fcnemann left the band after their second album, with Myer and Samardzic subsequently releasing the acclaimed \u2018Solutions For A Small Planet\u2019 (1996) and thereafter maintaining a strong strike-rate that has included \u2018New World March\u2019 (2011), their 7th record and regarded as another milestone effort.

 \u2018The Machine in the Ghost\u2019 has seen Haujobb begin another exciting chapter in their career. As we enter the next industrial and creative revolution that has been ignited by the rise of AI, it shows that they still have their musical fingers on the pulse.

THE MACHINE IN THE GHOST
<\/em>TRACKLISTING
1  Uncanny Valley
2  Uselessness
3  In The Headlights
4  Under the Gun
5  Tomorrow
6  The Internation
7  Opposition
8  Singularity
9  Mass Master
10  While It Rains<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daniel Myer \u2013\u00a0vocals, programming
Dejan Samardzic \u2013\u00a0programming

guest musicians
Emese \u00c1rvai-Ill\u00e9s (BLACK NAIL CABARET)\u00a0\u2013\u00a0vocals
Hannes Rief (DIE SELEKTION) \u2013 trumpet
Aleta Welling\u00a0\u2013 lyrics
Felix Gerlach \u2013\u00a0cello<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HAUJOBB<\/strong>\u00a0| 2024 photo by Chris Ruiz<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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