Dancing as an act of rebellion” is the first Abraxas LP in collaboration with the Valencian label Soil Records. A compilation of the first project recordings released between 2020 and 2021 plus some new tracks and, in addition to this, a second disc by other darkwave electronic artists remixing the first one: Geistform, We Are Not Brothers, Ober Dada, Melting Dogmas, SMforma, HBK1, José Rodríguez, SOJ and PanDemian.
This album deals with so important and controversial topics such as anti-capitalism; ecologism, climate change, collapse and humans as a virus; sexism, misoginy, femicide, and heteropatriarchy; homeland and nation concept; working-class, class war and revolution; disinformation, misinformation, post-true and fake News; the scourge of religion or the Decay of Western civilization.
Abraxas is a halfway project between dark dance electronic music, philosophical reflection, socio-political activism and musical entrepreneurship. Its main goal is to shake bodies and minds by spreading messages of individual and social self-criticism from the point of view of duality, extremes and contradiction, inherent to the human being and capitalist society.
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released December 1, 2022
Disc 1: original tracks and remixes by Abraxas (Damià Llorens Picó). Composed, recorded and mixed at his home studio in Alcoi. Final mix at Estudio Antimateria/Moog24 (Elx) with José Rodríguez.
Disc 2: disc 1 remixed by other artists.
Mastering by Rude 66 (Den Haag).
Art direction by Damià Llorens.
Artwork by Greta Haga (London) Inspired by the idyllic picture of a couple of rioters dancing a tango during the 2019 violent street protests in Santiago de Chile, amid smoke caused by tear gas canisters, wearing balaclavas on their young and revolutionary heads.(https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2554458981504354).
Published by Abraxas and Soil Records (València).