8 hours awake, 8 hours asleep.
“During the early 21st century research was done into the amount of sleep the human body needs. Results showed that 8 hours was the optimum sleep time for energy output and recovery. Here in 3808, in the Deep Down City the time mill counts its 8 hour cycle. 8 hours for sleeping 7 hours for working, 1 hour for self maintenance. It seems tough but with no natural light we didn’t need to work our time around a 12 hour clock anymore. The work must continue and the city needs to be built, maintained and fortified against the continued threat from the insiders.” ~ Field Marshall X.
ROTATIONS is a straight up club floor track influenced by the likes of Stoppenberg, Front 242, and CutOff:Sky.
released July 1, 2023
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Official video:
youtu.be/_TuOdyB9-DM
Teaser video:
youtu.be/a7j3EHKoam4
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Produced and mixed by MATT HART and mastered by Krischan Wesenberg.
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"Rotations is the new single from MATT HART , the London artist still navigating between his EBM, industrial metal and aggrotech influences while remaining faithful to his futuristic and icy universe that he always developed in his last album Below the Terra Pt. 1 released last year."~ Pierre Sopor, VerdamMnis, France – 01/07/2023
www.verdammnis.com/news/matt-hart-est-de-retour-avec-rotations
"Under the prism of EBM (Electronic Body Music) and Industrial, the London musician works – like many in this musical sphere – independently; be it collaboratively or solo, as he has been doing since the Anthology of Corrosion album , released in 2017." ~ Luiz Athayde, Class of Sounds, Portugal – 03/07/2023
classofsounds.com/projeto-industrial-ebm-matt-hart-lanca-remix-para-seu-novo-single-rotations/
"1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8...
Kick off the week with a killer energy-bomb thrown at us by the awesome London-based EBM/industrial producer MATT HART to blast us from the cruel and threatening to turn grey! 'Rotations' is the uncompromising club-destroying new-school EBM track, enhanced with brutal high-voltage energies and earth-shattering beats! This great song has just arrived with a heavy hardcore techno sound from Jon Stancil aka Seraphim System." ~ József Németh, Kollektiva, Hungary – 03/07/2023
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" '8 HOURS AWAKE. 8 HOURS ASLEEP. THIS IS THE WAY OF THE TIME MILL.' This is the mantra here, for there is not time for anything, except digging into the ground beneath, for the humans to escape their electronic assassins. The synths are ripe and juicy, while the beats are rampaging, forcing you to move that body. HART’s vocals broker no argument for this is how thing must be, as the shifts rotate through continuously, like a colony of ants, slaves to the rhythm for survival. The SWAGGROTATIONS REMIX has the massive slamming beats and screaming electronics. It summons a feeling of utter panic, suddenly dropping into drum and bass, before whirling off, pounding your skull into a pulpy mess. MATT HART’s original version is chock full of scintillating synths, club floor filling rhythms and rounding vocals, building the air of a will so stubborn, one shall do whatever to avoid elimination. With the SERAPHIM SYSTEM mix, we definitely find ourselves with a different beast. Harsher electronics, mixed with dub and dropping bass, combined with the crushing beats. All of this is a reflection of the desperation and even loss of humanity by the survivors…. ah well, at least they are doing it in style, while carrying out “ROTATIONS“." ~ ADELE SINNAMON, Onyx Music Reviews, Australia – 03/07/2023
onyxmusicreviews.com/2023/07/03/matt-hart-rotations-with-seraphim-systems-swaggrotations-remix/
"When electro metal & 2000’s techno body music & modern EBM meet, they can make songs like MATT HART latest dance-floor moving song, “Rotations”. The same guitars might have gotten a slightly higher volume at the expense of the lead, but the robot vocal bands can still produce a song flavoured at several points, parts of which are combined in an anti-boring way. Seraphim System made a minimally varied, distorted remix of this! In this noisy techno is replaced by drum and bass & breakbeat, so that industrial techno is enriched with more and more high sounds." ~ Mortel Misantropix, NecrogenesiS - Magyar Industrial Webzine, Hungary – 03/07/2023
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"British musician and producer MATT HART expands his career by leaps and bounds. This month he presents a new version for the single "Rotations", this time it is a remix by Seraphim System, which almost completely transforms the single, adding distortion, touches of drum and bass and a more brutal rhythm, taking the track to a more hardcore techno sound, which makes it almost addictive to listen to.... Let's assume that this will be another success that will bring you closer to the second part of the series "Below The Terra". The convergence of dark industrial and heavy electro creates a hybrid sound that is catchy and aggressive, while being clean and polished production. It sets the tone for what's to come after the success of 2022's "Below The Terra Part 1" album." ~ Atomium Magazine, Chile – 11/07/2023
www.atomiummagazine.cl/noticias/792-el-musico-industrial-matt-hart-estrea-el-remix-del-single-rotations
"He [MATT HART] takes us to the future. The year 3808, Deep Down City.
The beat ticks away the time, while we can dance to this club number for 8 hours. Spoken words between which the seconds are scanned sound exciting, with popping rhythms and electric synths. Stampingly aggressive and under the influence of Front 242!” ~ Nel Mertens (Alien Darkness #245), Luminous Dash, Belgium – 16/07/2023
luminousdash.be/nieuws/uitheems-geduister-245
"SLAMMING new single which ties borg technology to the bones of Front Line Assembly and pumps 1.21 gigawatts of juice to animate this old school concept in 2023. Music to automate your factory to." ~ Ken Magerman, Sounds & Shadows, Michigan, USA – 03/08/2023
soundsandshadows.com/2023/08/03/july-2023-sounds-and-shadows-darkscene-singles-chart/
