The Memory Institute (Bonus Tracks Version), by LLUMEN

The Memory Institute (Bonus Tracks Version)

by LLUMEN

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1.	The Memory Institute / New Moon Rise 07:25	buy track
2.	Silicon Cinema 05:42	buy track
3.	Cold In December 05:25	buy track
4.	Where We Collide 04:54	buy track
5.	Lux Aeterna 05:11	buy track
6.	Force Of Nurture 04:34	buy track
7.	World On Mute 06:34	buy track
8.	Death Walks On High Heels 06:21	buy track
9.	Huntress 05:53	buy track
10.	Where We Collide (Llumen vs Vuduvox) 05:08	buy track
11.	Force Of Nurture (DiffuzionRmx) 03:31	buy track
12.	Silicon Cinema (Mildreda remix) 05:58	buy track
13.	Death Walks On High Heels (Sinfusion remix) 06:05	buy track
14.	Lux Aeterna (Venal Flesh remix) 07:05	buy track
15.	Cold In December (Psy’Aviah remix ) 04:28	buy track
16.	Silicon Cinema (Totem Obscura vs. Acylum remix) 04:30	buy track
17.	Death Walks On High Heels (Benjamin's Plague remix) 04:30	buy track
18.	Huntress (Noire Antidote remix) 04:57	buy track
19.	Death Walks On High Heels (Antibody remix) 04:31	buy track
20.	Cold In December (Diskonnekted remix) 06:01	buy track
21.	Lux Aeterna (Simon Carter’s breaks mix) 05:03	buy track

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“The Memory Institute” is now reality! The much anticipated debut full length album of Belgian audio-visual artist Pieter Coussement who has been working for some years on refining the specific LLUMEN sound. This first album offers a diverse palette of sounds blending old school EBM elements with more contemporary modern electronics. It portrays a wide variety of styles, all bound by LLUMEN’s love for complex layered arrangements, pulsing bass and steady beats.

Strong from the resonant success of the “Cold In December” EP released in March 2016, LLUMEN delivers a much varied album that encompasses many of the current trends in dark electronic music, mixing solid EBM roots, emotional melodic Wave and modern electronic trends and which should please fans of ASSEMBLAGE 23, BRUDERSCHAFT, HAUJOBB and FRONT 242.

If the opening track “The Memory Institute” reveals LLUMEN’s love for orchestral pieces, the following “New Moon Rise” pays tribute to fellow countrymen SUICIDE COMMANDO with a distinct old-school vibe. Next to the unmatched mega club hit “Cold In December”, LLUMEN’s dancefloor potential gets nicely confirmed by songs like “Where We Collide”, “Force of Nurture”, “Death Walks on High Heels” or yet “World on Mute” which all showcase impressive diversely layered club-oriented elektro arrangements. But LLUMEN is definitely more than up-tempo music and tunes like “Silicon Cinema” and “Huntress” prove that this one-man project can also write music with a heavy emphasis on more gothic inspired sombre melodies and lyrics.

LLUMEN is a new force on the Belgian dark electro EBM scene we can all count on! A band to discover without hesitation!

The album also comes as a limited box edition expanding the realm of LLUMEN even more, with a bonus disc featuring contributions that again broaden the musical palette with which this album has been painted. VUDUVOX turns “Where We Collide” into an even colder minimalistic EBM track whereas DIFFUZION brings out the future pop-esque quality of “Force Of Nurture”. Label mates VENAL FLESH and SINFUSION went to town on respectively “Lux Aeterna” and “Death Walks on High Heels”, making it really their own. TOTEM OBSCURA, MILDREDA and NOIRE ANTIDOTE pushed the boundaries for the slower songs of the album. ANTIBODY, Benjamin’s Plague, DISKONNEKTED, PSY’AVIAH and SIMON CARTER complete the album with club-oriented contemporary versions of “Death Walks on High Heels”, “Cold In December” and “Lux Aeterna”.

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released January 13, 2017

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Since 2001, Belgium-based label Alfa Matrix has become a trademark for underground electronic music. We are open to various styles including power EBM, dark elektro, industrial, synth pop, electronica, trip hop, drum’n bass, goth rock, wave, etc. Home of bands like FRONT 242, AYRIA, ALIEN VAMPIRES, HELALYN FLOWERS, METROLAND, BRUDERSCHAFT, ACYLUM, MONDTRÄUME, PNE, STAR INDUSTRY, UNTER NULL, etc. ... more

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