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Modulate
"In yr club, kicking yr ass"
Status: wrapping up EP in the studio!
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Latest Journal Entry: New tour dates. Ireland, Netherlands, Belgium August 11, 2011, 03:01am
Profile:  Please see the FAQ blog post before mailing questions to the band as it may already be answered there. Live Dates: After holing out in their Manchester studio Modulate are ready to emerge with a new EP and the announcement of a new tour. The Robots EP, due for release in Spring 2011, features the first new material from the band since the Detonation LP including a collaboration with former Glis frontman and Combichrist Keyboardist, Shaun-F. The first leg of the Robots tour takes in festivals in the UK & Canada, before headline shows in Europe and the UK. Further dates and announcements of Leg 2 coming soon. Tour dates 2011: Modulate is the hard industrial project of DJ Geoff Lee. Geoff is one of the resident DJ's at alternative/industrial superclub The Wendyhouse in Leeds on the Mutate industrial/hard dance floor. Their debut Skullfuck EP went crashing straight into the German DAC alternative charts reaching number 6 and number 3 in the Greek Alternative Chart giving the band a worldwide club hit that was described as "the industrial scene's club hit of the year" in ReGen magazine. Modulate have toured internationally with VNV Nation, Combichrist and Alec Empire, as well as their own headline shows, and played festivals around the world including WGT, Summer Darkness, Black Celebration and others. 2008 saw Geoff in the studio completing the debut album, Detonation, followed by a UK tour in May. Detonation was released worldwide on the 23rd Sept 2008 winning rave reviews and spent nearly two months in the Top 10 of the DAC alternative chart in Germany and the Top 20 of the Dutch DUC chart. Modulate are currently working on their 2nd album and EP and preparing for a major worldwide tour in 2011. Press: Detonation: Sphere Magazine (UK) - "This is a proud body of work that challenges the electronic music blueprint and a strong signal of intent", "...a fine debut". ReGen Magazine (USA) - "This is by definition the lead to follow for any up-and-coming or aspiring electronic acts", "This is a must have in any DJ's set. You have been warned. Now go get it". Side Line (Belgium) - "...you're bound to hear half of this album for years to come!", "fans of this style should expect to put "Detonation" on repeat for hours on end". amodelofcontrol.com - "A storming dancefloor album, that has no real pretenses at being anything else. It may not change the world, but it's a whole lot of fun. The bomb has now been dropped, all we can do now is sit back and watch it explode." Skullfuck EP: Connexion Bizarre - "'Skullfuck' and accompanying tracks have all that is needed to become club hits", "this release and the title track are sure to make some waves in the near future." ReGen magazine - "one of the hardest-hitting, joyously vicious tracks in recent memory", "a CD that'll show up on every EBM play-list by this summer, if not before" Side-Line - "A slick combination of rhythmic noise and brutal techno", "This is definitely a newcomer to watch!" Gothtronic - "Dancefloor crackers destined for any industrial clubnight" Underworld Club, Greece - "The brightest new hope of industrial/ TBM" Modulate are signed to Metropolis Records for North America, Gravitator Records (Russia) and Infacted Records for Europe/Rest of the World. Modulate CD's and MP3's are available from: Plus other good retailers and MP3 sellers worldwide. Don't forget to check out www.modulateonline.com for more info. Sounds Like: Soman, Motor, Northborne, Combichrist, Feindflug, Cubanate, KiEw, Grendel, Moonitor, XPQ-21, Monolith, Suicide Commando, Terrorfakt, Chemical Brothers, Kloq, Nitzer Ebb, Terence Fixmer, Modcom, Empirion, Rob Zombie, Oakenfold/Osborne, lots of things. I think it's hard to pin one genre on us, there are bits of industrial in there, bits of techno, trance, EBM, noise, hard dance, whatever. Most of the tracks are aimed at the dancefloor but we occasionally go into more experimental territory.
Influences: 1984, 7x7, abandoned places, abstraction, alice in wonderland, alien sex fiend, ambient, analogue synths, art, arthouse, audio, bdsm, berlin, biomechanical, boots, brothers quay, carl jung, chaos, chaos theory, chris cunningham, chunky techno, circuit bending, combichrist, creativity, cubanate, cubase, cyber, cyberculture, cybergoth, cyberpunk, dada, dark ambient, dark films, darren aronofsky, das boot, demask, depth, digital, digital photography, distortion, djing, dr seuss, extreme weather, feedback, feindflug, fetish, floria sigismondi, fractals, fritz lang, front 242, fx, gas masks, gasmasks, george orwell, gigs, gloves, guitars, h.r. giger, hard house, hard trance, harmonics, icon of coil, industrial, industrial music, industrial rock, infest, intelligence, irc, jan svankmajer, jeff noon, joy division, jung, j�germeister, kabarett, kiew, kraftwerk, latex, lewis carroll, lightning, machines, manchester, marilyn manson, metropolis, minimalism, ministry, monolith, mutate, netgoth, nihilism, nin, nine inch nails, noise, noize, nu-nrg, ocean, photography, pi, pinstripe, psychology, pvc, rammstein, rivetheads, rob zombie, rubber, sampling, sdl, secret places, sin city, skinny puppy, snow, soman, stompy boots, stompyness, storms, sunrise, sunset, surrealism, synths, techno, the cell, the cure, the matrix, this morn omina, thx1138, tim burton, trance, tubes, vodka, vst plugins, water, wendyhouse, whitby, whitby goth weekend, white zombie, wine, wisdom, writing music, wumpscut, xotox.
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