The Road to Kinetik: Marching Dynamics

It's not exactly a crowded field, but Montreal's Festival Kinetik is fast becoming the premiere Industrial, EBM, Technoid and Rhythmic Noise festival. Only on it's second year, the fest had gathered a pretty amazing line-up of acts from across North America, South America and Europe spread across four days and comparable to some of the more well-known, larger euro-festivals like Wave Gottik Treffen and M'era Luna. Logistically speaking, something like this has to be an enormous undertaking, taking into account the fact that many of the acts will be flying in from other continents with all of the visa issues related to that it's not hard to guess how much work goes into setting something like this up. And although the bar was set high by the first outing (which included performances from Nitzer Ebb, Funker Vogt, Feindflug, This Morn Omina and The Horrorist) the second year seems poised to deliver on an even larger scale.

Although it's not 'til May of 2009, all three DIJ contributors are planning on attending, along with as many of our Van City peoples as can be convinced/coerced. So by way of spreading some news on the event and possibly convincing a few more folks to spend their hard earned sheckles to attend, we're gonna be semi-regularly doing profiles on some of the acts who will be performing in Montreal. Kicking it off, we'll be having a look at the act billed as the first actual performance of the festival, Hymen records signee Marching Dynamics.


A solo project from S. Talada, Marching Dynamics avoids the harsh, beat driven noise fo his other project The Operative in favor of a more melodic technoid sound. Their debut album (preceeded only by a CDr release for Talada's own Mechanismz label) Nailsleeper is the kind of music that initially informed the sound of the Hymen label, informed by harsh industrial and noise music but drawing influence from the abstract techno and IDM scenes. Although certainly not derivative, numerous tracks call to mind the atmospherics and the complex rhythms of Black Lung and Xingu Hill. Especially notable are the tracks which display an electro influence, "Stoic" specifically has the funky, rhythmic energy and classic drum machine sound that kids used to pop and lock to back in the proverbial day. The band's myspace currently has some promising sounding demos for the forthcoming second album, the obscurely titled The Workers Party of Haiti, due sometime in early 2009.

Marching Dynamics - Stoic