Producing and releasing his explorative and unique electronic music on labels such as Mobilee, Highgrade, Freak N'Chic or Micro-Fibres for years, it was in 2010 that Marc Antona felt the time was right to embark on the entirely independent project Dissonant. Over the year that followed, not only did Marc put out three highly praised EPs on his label, he also built and nurtured its concept to what is now the home of his first full length album .Rules Of Madness.' Exposing the hidden grooves within the beats and kicks, “Rules Of Madness” features ten tracks of organic music full of hidden melodies and underlying emotional ambience whilst keeping the pumping vibe experienced in his dj-live sessions. Thru his first album on Dissonant, Marc shows his own creative vision of what he wants to be sexy underground music. “Rules Of Madness” opens with “Guru,” the album's sense of shy mystery and intrigue revealed with muffled demeanour and secretive rhythm. Just afterwards, “All Against The Law” introduces the next main thread: analogue field recordings that celebrate the fascinating and often unheard soundtrack of everyday life. These recordings, coupled with the poetic sampled vocals on “Illegal” and the humorous and charming “Hammock Spider Story,” serve to create a beautiful and honest thread to Marc's tracks. Marc Antona's Iberian influence is laid bare throughout: the ten tracks coming from his studio on the white island of which he fondly says has "so much contrast between the peaceful nature and the amazing clubbing scene, with so much energy that ideas are plentiful when it's time to make music .” Weaved with exactly that contrast, tracks like "Prohibition Circus" and "Crush To Pulp” play with raw organic hand claps, groovy feelings and the sprinkling bells of ambience. What makes them so compelling though is the atmosphere that they ricochet within; crunching machinery combine with bounding bass and beats to fuel the dance floor. Throughout his journey and discoveries as a musician, Marc's passion for "creating musical trips, taking people into his world and making them enjoy the changes of moods from happiness to melancholy, from energy-pumping moments to relaxing deep waves" has developed and is now clearly on point with an album that fully delivers. Whether it is through "Home Rebels" adult maturity or the thunderous energy of "Fast Track,” racing like a stampede of dancing bulls through the album's core, there are discoveries and new dimensions found within each track and at every new listening. For the mind and spirit, but also for the dance floor and everything in between, “Rules Of Madness” is built like a multi-experience journey, as a musical story that twists and turns and can be listened to and felt from beginning to end. An initial sampler with three album tracks, “Rules Of Madness - Part 1” is already out on vinyl. The remainder of the album will be released at the end of August and into September 2011 on three vinyl cuts as well as a mixed CD. .'Rules Of Madness” follows a constantly layering structure, an ever-changing direction and Marc's plethora of inspiration projected from within. Marc Antona's “Rules of Madness” is the best proof that techno can be sensual.
Tracklisting:
01 Guru
02 All Against The Law
03 Spring Pack
04 The Hammock Spider Story
05 Fast Track
06 Prohibition Circus
07 Home Rebels
08 Crush To Pulp
09 Illegal
10 Last Taboo More