New Talent :: White Car ::

White Car announced their arrival in 2010 with a self-titled EP on Rainbow Body Records. An arresting meld of EBM, industrial, raw Chicago house and smacked-out lounge-funk, it prompted comparisons in these pages with artists as diverse as Cabaret Voltaire, Hieroglyphic Being, Ike Yard and Stereo Image, but was clearly possessed of a verve and a vitality all its own. The follow-up No Better EP was easily one of the strongest 12″ statements of the year – a cinematic, jackhammering electro-pop attack that put us in mind of Borghesia produced by Morgan Geist, or Drexciya if they were a product of 80s no wave New York rather than 90s techno Detroit.
The duo of Elon Katz and Orion Martin will release their debut album later this year on Hippos In Tanks (Hype Williams, Laurel Halo, Games et al), and we’ll be mightily surprised if it’s not a blinder. Having recently recorded a Fact Mix – a suave and telling blend of the likes of Controlled Bleeding, ESP, Severed Heads and Front 242 – Katz took time out from crafting his LP to talk to us about White Car’s origins, his distaste for goth-by-numbers and his numerous side-projects.

 :: White Car ::

“I am not into all this triangle/cross/symbolic-branding/occult shit a lot of bands have been doing – it seems empty, contrived and trite to me.”

 

“I don’t think White Car is that dark, it’s more mutant, paranoid, sticky, and funky.”

 

“Hearing something like Cabaret Voltaire was mind-blowing; electronics, funk and punk. My most perfect amalgamation.”