Metalux was formed by M.V. Carbon and J.Gräf in the late 90’s. Using stringed instruments, samplers, synthesisers, reel to reel tape machines, and hand-built circuitry, they produce electronically manipulated, tape processed sounds and vocals. Central to their music is the subversion of structural and melodic expectation. They have performed throughout the U.S. and Europe and have numerous releases on labels such as Load, 5rc, Hanson and Veglia. Carbon and Gräf currently reside in distant countries, (USA/Denmark) however they come together occasionally, as Metalux, to record, create, and tour. They have pursued their musical collaboration as well as their solo careers as artists and musicians.
Victim of Space
2005, 5RC/ Kill Rock Stars
Heavy blown-out synth beats and guitars crush as moltenous circuitry solidifies. M.V. Carbon and J. Gräf create a terrain that loops, pulses and whines. They dig deep to uproot sedate landscapes.
Overdriven tube amps, vintage analog synths, AM radio static, tape loops, and jagged shards of guitar build a swarm of pulses that punctuate their demonic dub-rock noise vocals.
Victim of Space, the sixth Metalux album, doesn’t refer to outerspace, but suggests existence within an abstract space that is capable of destablizing the normal behavior patterns, personality traits and manners of the “victim.” Victim of Space collides the worlds of noise and rock, rewrites the rules on sound, creates a beehive of power codes. Clears a space for discomforting/beauteous nuance.
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