Dub Spencer & Trance Hill
Imago Cells
Dub Spencer & Trance Hill have been in the music business for around 20 years and are still as hungry as a caterpillar in the forest of papers. The dub component supposedly always dominated, regardless of whether it was mixed in a humorous and intelligent way with Christmas carols, spoken words or Italo Westerns. But the electronic, psychedelic, "trance" always played an important role in the work of the Swiss band, which is known throughout Europe. Now, finally, this facet gets its due place on the quartet's new, twelfth longplayer: "Imago Cells" is the name of the album and marks a metamorphosis. So the new emerges from the old, and so the dub merges with electronic dance music or better: "trance music"? The tracks are clearly characterized by the up-tempo and invite you to rave. Furthermore, the sound has become even more bassy and psychedelic, but without losing the organic touch. The eight songs bubbling, echoing and grooving really well, sound unmistakably like Dub Spencer & Trance Hill and at the same time you understand that the only way is the new. A truly magical moment, like the birth of a butterfly.