"Seedily attractive, smooth, impressively catchy, seething power..." Mick Mercer
Next live date should be a special one. Some of you may shed a tear and then beat yourselves up if you miss this one: Friday 6th April 2012 Freak Scene @ Heroes : experimental / noise pop / shoegaze night: https://www.facebook.com/events/267505279993322/ see our live / gigs page for more info
Fades, a 13 track compilation of new songs and mixes is currently available via The Mekano Set bandcamp at the holiday sale price of £5: http://themekanoset.bandcamp.com/album/fades
Check out our twitter for daily updates, musings and mishaps from Milk: http://twitter.com/mekanoset
Do you facebook? Join in with the news, banter and random linkage at our facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=87903390807
Not convinced? Check the biography page for the unlikely story: www.mekanoset.net/biographylhtml
Take a tumbl with us - check out our tastes in art, sound, noise and hair-styles: http://themekanoset.tumblr.com/
Two recent collaborations from a session in December 2011 with sound / noise artist Mutate available in high quality download formats:
http://themekanoset.bandcamp.com/track/channellightvessel-andwantmore-feat-mutate
http://themekanoset.bandcamp.com/track/shear-feat-mutate-version-1
Or if you want our personal take on things, come here to me: www.mekanoset.net/in2.html
“John Peel would have loved them” DJ CruelBritannia.
"Mekano Set make machine rock music that blurs the line between dark-indie and industrial in exquisite fashion." Soundsphere Magazine.
"The Mekano Set get us all worked up with the promise of a song
called 'Dirty Hand Job', and then totally spoil the mood by being goths...
about as menacing as a Crow soundtrack." Emily Mackay.*
"Don't Eat The Sweets is an incredible track with great vocal harmony
and beautifully structured layers of guitar and drums to really lure
you into the mood to party." Hidden Sanctuary Radio.
"Filthy electro-rock... like some kind of beautiful crime."
Niall O'Keeffe.
They take an industrial rock sounding shoegaze for a ride through a
world of phazing guitar and driving beats, Depeche Mode vocals and slick
electronic walls of sound.
Last time I saw them live they turned the smoke machine on full blast
until you literally could not see your hand in front of your face and
howled their guitars before stopping and leaving after one song! Brilliant!
/ Fokka
Wolf.
"Delicate, filthy, post coital purr." Bubblegum Slut.
It’s a rare thing these days to actually find a genuinely original band. Whilst The Mekano set obviously show some of their influences, most notably late 70s/Early 80’s post punk and early 90s Shoegaze.
It’s the way it’s put together that makes The Mekano Set so unique. Hynotic beats combine with Hooky-esque basslines, fucked up guitar sounds and haunting, underplayed vocals.
Possibly The Mekano set’s weakness is they are impossible to categorise. Dark but not Goth, retro but modern. And people need their little boxes to put bands into these days. Some will get it, most won’t. I do get it and it is brilliant! / DJ Wild Bill Buttock
*NME / Stool Pigeon journalist Ms Mackay went on to criticize our "electro" tendencies, and our blatant use of what she thought was synthesizers. She also described non-existent photos of us standing outside a church wearing long black coats.
More recently, Ms Mackay wrote an article singing the praises of this new band she'd just discovered who go by the name of Ladytron. She didn't comment on their fondness for crushed black velvet, goth haircuts, pointy shoes, or their occasional use of synthesizing keyboards.
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