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G.O.L.D - Album

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Cherry I saw XTR Human at Absolution Fest and will never forget him standing on the speaker shouting Leven Ohne Licht at the audience. Love love love his music and this album! Favorite track: Leben ohne Licht (ft. Luca Gillian).

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1.	Leben ohne Licht (ft. Luca Gillian) 03:25 video	buy track
2.	Wie ein Gott 03:33 video	buy track
3.	Fleisch 04:45	buy track
4.	Exzess 03:36	buy track
5.	Angst 04:27	buy track
6.	Maschine 05:09 video	buy track
7.	Dark Germany 03:23	buy track
8.	Starker Junge 04:29	buy track
9.	Dieser Klang 04:26	buy track
10.	Keine Heimat 05:12	buy track

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Though the hallowed halls of Berlin’s nightlife excess now sit cold, the sounds that once haunted their depths beat ever onward, and colder still. Birthed in these hushed plaguelands, XTR HUMAN’s new full-length G.O.L.D evokes the frozen melancholy of a post-pandemic city, driven ever onward by the impetus of night’s primary currencies: sweat, release and change.
The latest full-length from Johannes Stabel, G.O.L.D finds the German producer evolving as much as the rest of the world has had to. Taking his political and socially conscious lyrics into his native tongue brings a deeper and more powerful thrust to their weight—particularly at a time when Germany is weighing its own social consciousness after years of being seen as a leading world figure.
Across G.O.L.D’s ten tracks, Stable brings our zeitgeist into a new realm, where the anger and frustration at our current existence is refined into the energy that fuels our engines, that primal desire always amplified during times of social upheaval—the desire to move your body.
Many of the songs delve into Stabel’s own experiences as a German, from explorations of the Deutsch mentality of persistent fear to tackling the fake news, jingoism, racists and coronavirus deniers on hypnotic bangers ‘Dark Germany’ and ‘Dieser Klang’; issues just as prevalent in Germany as in the USA and UK.
Yet each song carries just as much weight on to the dance floor, melding driving EBM bass with soaring synthlines and coldwave atmospheres that dispel the tenseness that such heavy topics imbue, in favor of intensity and beauty. Influenced by the pop hooks of Austrian New Wave legend Falco, G.O.L.D never neglects its danceability and HD club accessibility, no matter how heady the lyricism. ‘Starker Junge’, a dissection of toxic masculinity, drops down onto the listener with sparkling synths and razor-sharp guitar, while capitalist critique ‘Fleisch’ is a pogo synthpop anthem that could send any floor into a twirling frenzy.
Wrapped in darkened beats and political ideals, G.O.L.D can’t hide the light that emanates from within its glistening, imminently catchy hooks and groove-laden rhythms. In a time where the dance floor sometimes seems like a distant memory, it’s the perfect philosopher’s metal to transmogrify your existence.

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released June 11, 2021

All songs written and recorded by Johannes Stabel
Mixing by Andrew Wiseman
Arwork by Nicolas Zupfer
Mastering at Dadub Studio
Distributed by ReadyMade Distribution
Braid Records 2021

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XTR HUMAN Berlin, Germany

Born in fire and tempered in the batcaves and warehouse raves of Berlin, Johannes Stabel brings a leather-wrapped hammer to gothic nightlife. A Don amongst the burnt strobes, grime-soaked venues and endless nights of Berlin, Stabel is revered for his high-energy performances as XTR HUMAN. ... more

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Jun 16

Urban Spree

Berlin, Germany
Sep 01

Kulturpark Deutzen

Deutzen, Germany

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