L.A. based producer/instrumentalist Shok (a.k.a. Zeitmahl), is one bad dude. You mightn’t have guessed it, but we’re all about sinister dark industrial gothtronix shit. And Shok provides!
Formerly in the seminal industrial/techno rock band My Life with the Thrill Kill Cult, as well as recording with International DeeJay Gigalos artist Mount Sims (who helped usher in the modern sexy-electro sound with ’02s ‘Ultra Sex’), Shok has quite a bit of impressive production and rockstar credentials.
Now, gothic icons The Sisters of Mercy have a canon of songs that are perfect as they exist, but their sparse soundscapes have always made me wonder how they’d sound with a tricked-out backbeat. Enter, Shok, who took The Sisters’ classic ‘Lucretia, My Reflection’ and mixes it down for the dancefloor—re-christened ‘New Cretia’ under the yet another moniker of Shok, Sisters of Mixing:
MP3: Sisters Of Mixing - New Cretia
Another recent remix of Seattle/NYC EMB/Electro band CYLAB also gets a lot of play at my house. Some shit you can dance and cry to at the same time.
MP3: CYLAB - Grays (Graced by Shok & Zeitmahl mix)
Shok is currently working with heavyweight Bristol drum’n'bass’r Tech Itch on a the colab. project found here. We expect good things.
Visit Shok on MySpace.
