If you have to describe a collaboration between Ellen Allien and Ash Code in just two words, “dance” and “kill” immediately come to mind. This is the new EP from this impossible meeting of European decibel artists featuring German techno producer Ellen Allien and Italian darkwave and synth trio Ash Code. The EP is a “bridge from cold wave to techno” but the energies flow both ways.

The title track “Dance And Kill” sets the tone, like an Ellen Allien techno remix of melancholic synth pop; “Everything Collapses” like a dark synthwave remix of a brutalist techno track, and the middle track “Shining On You” is the centerpoint, set between the extremes. There is a clear affinity between the artists and the EP has a sound created by the sum of both with a third distinctive voice rising from the union.

⚪️ Dance & Kill Tracklisting

Ellen Allien x Ash Code: Dance and Kill (BPitch Control / 12" Vinyl + Digital)
1. Dance And Kill (05:16)
2. Shining On You (05:52)
3. Everything Collapses (05:05)

⚪️ Disclosure Statement

This record was submitted as a promo.

⚪️ Previous Coverage

⚪️   Ellen Allien’s UFOlogy (2019)
⚪️   Aasthma & Umfang remix Rosa Anschütz’s Goldener Strom (2023)
⚪️   BPitch signs Rosa Anschütz’s album Goldener Strom (2022)
⚪️   Ellen Allien’s UFO Inc releases Alien Rain’s Empire of Illusion (2021)
⚪️   Brutalist Acid Slap from Boston 168 on Vax Of Love (2020)

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