Cubanate
Cubanate is an English band that was founded in 1992 by Marc Heal and Phil Barry in London. The name derives from the Cuban 8 maneuver
Band History
In response to the of them perceived as boring electric bands that " their faces during live performances behind synthesizers hide" Marc Heal and Phil Barry founded the music project Cubanate. The focus was on the idea of writing dancefloor - oriented songs and to combine techno beats with metal guitars.
Shortly thereafter, the two musicians Graham Rayner and Steve Etheridge completed the band, the quartet signed a contract with Dynamica, a sub-label of the record company Machinery, and published soon after the Maxi Body Burn, from which the title track became a club hit. Rayner and Ethridege left Cubanate even before the appearance of a first album, Heal and Barry were again worked as a duo to further material.
The debut Antimatter was published in 1993, shortly after the EP Metal. The title Metal should consciously cause confusion, because on the EP offered Cubanate stylistically no metal but clearly techno, trance and house oriented remixes of their side project D-Code; Heal expressed this, an EP that stylistically oriented at the metal would, presumably called "EBM " the band.
1995 saw the second album Cyberia and it was followed by a tour with Front Line Assembly, before the third album Barbarossa was issued in April 1996. The album's title refers to the code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, Operation Barbarossa. Heal intention with this album, " look at the interrelationship between personal and political violence. " Nonetheless, the Group entered into an agreement with the U.S. record label Wax Trax! Records, a sub-label of TVT Records.
Appeared in 1998, the fourth and final studio album, Interference, for the Cubanate among others with producer and musician Rhys Fulber ( Front Line Assembly, Will) worked together. Some songs on the album were remixed by Techno-/Goa-Trance- and drum -and- bass greats such as Juno Reactor, Empirion and Deep Rooted and published on the Maxis 9:59 and voids.
Since October 2010, the project is active again and announced new material for the year 2011. In January 2011, the piece We are crowd as part of the compilation Electronic Body Matrix 1 was released - the first new song after 10 years since the Search Engine demos.
Style and texts
The crossover style of Cubanate first mixed metal guitars with techno sounds and has been in the print media of the 1990 inter alia as Tekkno Metal titled. From the Electro-/Industrial-Szene, the Cubanate was often associated with the band from the beginning distanced to.
While the 1995 album Cyberia was characterized by a continuous rhythm, were " more breaks and unusual passages " integrated into the compositions of the subsequent work Barbarossa. In addition Cubanate put more emphasis on distorted vocals, the guitars are less distorted and used metal- oriented. Marc Heal was the influence of the group Front Line Assembly for this step of change. On the 1998 album Interference came primarily electronica, especially drum and bass elements are used.
In his texts and ideas Heal was, among other things inspired by the cyberpunk and other science fiction texts such as the Body to Burn and Skeletal than " destruction of human body " interpretable, but have no deeper meaning according to the band statement.