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Tracklist:
1. Today
2. Big Ego
3. Everyday Can Get You Down
4. Badabing
5. Streets of your Town
6. Isolation
7. Normal
8. Gotta Lotta Love
9. Whatever
10. Alive
11. Friend
12. C.C.S.
13. Anti Social Media
14. Please don’t be yourself
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URBAN JUNIOR "Urban et Orbi"
Format LP+DL: VR12128 (EAN CODE:7640148983419)
Format CD: VRCD128 (EAN CODE:7640148983358)
Next level Electro Clash Garage Boogie Disco Blues Trash with The Stupidity of Punk, the Simplicity of Techno and the Desperate Soul of the Blues
Urban Junior is from Zurich in Switzerland who started his music career 'beliefe it or not' in the end 90's, in a Boy-group and broke many Teenage Girl Hearts but he changed big time and we present you his third long player on Voodoo Rhythm Records, he had a creative brain atom explosion during the Corona period and we had to choose these 14 killer tracks from 35 great songs, the impact of which can hardly be topped, they tell you the stories of dishonour and punishment, sadness and the rudimentary everyday life of a punk rock one man band star
The Stupidity of punk and the simplicity of techno combine the despairing soul of the blues. this man has everything in one! Urban Junior is a musical and physical phenomenon. This is higher level electro trash garage boogie disco blues punk, second to none Super unique. the lyrics are a poetic revelation between frenzy, fear, anger, sadness and hope
Urban et Orbi - 14 brand new bangers. Crunchy and creamy, Stompy and Screamy, Stitchy Itchy and Streamy...whatever it is,he does and kills it!!!
p.s. The whole album is a personal attack and a comeback, C.C.S. for example, a statement is against cancer
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DEUTSCH
Urban Junior aus Zürich der Schweiz dessen Karriere 'glaubst mir oder nicht' in einer Boy-Group seinen Anfang nahm um sämtliche Teenage Herzen zu brechen aber Rock'n'Roll hatt sein Leben bis in die Grundmauern erschüttert. nun präsentieren wir euch sein schon drittes Album auf Voodoo Rhythm Records, er hatte in der Corona-Zeit eine kreative Hirn Atom Explosion und wir mussten aus 35 grandiosen Songs diese 14 Killer Tracks auswählen die in ihrer Wucht kaum zu topen sind, erzählen sie dir die Geschichten von schund und sühne, Traurigkeit und dem rudimentären Alltag eines Punk Rock One Man Band Stars
Die Naivität des Punks und die Einfachheit des Techno verbindet die verzweifelte Seele vom Blues. dieser Mann hat alles in einem! Urban Junior ist ein musikalisches und körperliches Phänomen. Das ist Electro Trash Garage Boogie Disco Blues Punk der höheren Stufe, unübertroffen Super einzigartig. die Texte sind eine poetische Offenbarung zwischen Raserei, Angst, Wut, Traurigkeit und Hoffnung
Urban et Orbi - 14 brandneue Knaller. Knusprig und cremig, Stompy und Screamy, Stitchy Itchy und Streamy ... whatever it is,he does and kills it!!!
p.s. Das ganze Album ist ein persönlicher Angriff plus Aufarbeitung, C.C.S. zum Beispiel ist ein Statement gegen Krebs
OTHER URBAN JUNIOR RELEASES
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2023 - URBAN ET ORBI
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2014 - the truth about dr.s & mr.p one man synthony in E-minor
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2010 - two headed demon
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REVIEWS:
442ème RUE (FR)
URBAN JUNIOR: Urban et orbi (CD, Voodoo Rhythm Records)
If you decide to purchase this new Urban Junior album and, for that matter, listen to it, don't panic as soon as the first sounds come out of your speakers, nothing is broken in your installation and you have not been hacked by the industrial plumbing company redoing the pipes below your home, the sound effects which will assail you copiously are only one of the many pranks of the most chattering Swiss of creation , who even managed to incise this good old Lux Interior into a very hermetic bacchanal. Too strong Urban Junior. After this introduction, we would almost return to more classical, despite the machines tinkering with the traditional instruments of the one man band that it is (distorted guitar and robotic drums), machines probably stolen from the aforementioned public works site, which pound, which abrasive, which strip as if the marauder wanted to free the Earth from its bark. I know, There is work to be done, but he would be able to do it if he took the trouble. Music full of saturation, like the voice of Urban Junior who vociferates in a megaphone (we are far from Elvis' Shure Unidyne 556), in low frequencies, like the infrasound produced by a herd of elephants suffering from laryngitis. Urban Junior navigates between telluric electro, android trash and experimental punk, a sort of cybernetic The Ex or Einstürzende Neubauten on acid. It must be said that Urban Junior composed this third album during COVID stasis. As the gonzo had also just dealt with cancer and is as prolific as a rabbit on Viagra, we can understand that he was angry. That's how he ended up with 35 pieces ready to use, which is still a bit much for an album that we don't want to be too adventurous either, the music already is. enough of that. Only 14 titles survived a drastic selection, which does not necessarily mean that the others are completely lost, I am willing to bet that some of them will be found on future discs. On the other hand, what is certain is that this sorting had the effect of only selecting
the hardest, wildest, most stubborn pieces, the garenne is not the type to do languorous slow and the slutty variety. Add to that texts where fear competes with anger, sadness with hysteria, and you will have an overview of the physical side of this record which connects uppercuts and jabs from the right, hooks and punches that are not really regulatory. Urban Junior is desperate synth-punk, idiotic electro-boogie, simple techno-trash, a kind of biomechanical sad clown created by a Skynet burnt out on synthetic crack. Urban Junior is the realization of Norman Spinrad's "rock machine" to which there would nevertheless remain a slight element of humanity, even mutant.
Luminous Dash (BE)
Urban Junior. Well, that's the one-man band Urban Junior that sings all by itself, plays guitar and also synths and drums. At the same time that is. Maybe not for the recordings of Urban Et Orbi, although it wouldn't surprise us because he is a member of the Voodoo Rhythm family that guarantees rawness and authenticity, certainly live.
The man is from Zurich (Switzerland) and had some success in boy bands in his home country in the late 1990s. We only got to know him - fortunately - with his record Music For The Asses (2005) on the obscure Fistfucker Records. After another record on the same label he moved to Voodoo Rhythm where he made two crazy albums full of electroclash boogie bluestrash, garage punk and other disco madness. And then it went quiet. The unkind animal cancer played tricks on the man. Fortunately for him, the disease seems to be under control (we keep our fingers crossed) and he decided to make an album to play off all the misery. The Truth About Dr.S & Mr.P, A One Man Synthony In E Minor we found a wonderful record when it came out in 2014. Almost ten years later, Urban Junior has completely found his sottise again. Crisscrossing through genres, with a little more blues and soul in the mix than before, he still fuses the silliness of punk and the simplicity of techno (his words).
Label boss Beatman could choose from thirty-five songs that Urban Junior had come up with in an explosion of creativity. A wealth from which he chose the best (or worst, could just be with Beatman) for this record, which, as expected, bounces in all directions at once. Lyrics about loneliness, sadness, hope and fear on a bed of unhinged beats. Electroclash as it should actually sound. Wonderfully simple and with more than one corner off, Urban Junior remains a phenomenon, also within the Voodoo Rhythm stable, where more weirdos have found a place.
fear and loathing fanzine
Based in Zurich, Urban Junior was once (allegedly) a member of a successful Boy-band, but had a ‘creative brain explosion’ and’ changed big-time’. I have no idea if the story is true, but I hope so! This is his third LP and it’s a lot of fun. Trashy keyboards, nicked from New Wave and fucked-up in all the best ways, electronic beats, samples, vocals that sound like they’re sneering at you and shed-loads of energy and attitude. If the boy-band story is to be believed, then this is the anti-boy-band. As far away from commercial considerations as you can get, but never afraid to include a catchy hook. And surprisingly danceable… I could imagine deranged kids (and maybe a few older reprobates) wreaking havoc at their local discotheque while these tracks are being played… It just goes to show that punk rock is still mutating and still setting out to annoy all the people that deserve to be annoyed. Seek and enjoy!
RADIO FALS (CRO)
Elektro Clash Garage Boogie Disco Blues Trash na novom nivou
Urban Junior dolazi iz Züricha u Švicarskoj i započeo je svoju glazbenu karijeru krajem 90-ih u boy grupi, osvajajući srca mnogih tinejdžerica. No, promijenio se iz temelja i predstavljamo vam njegov treći album pod okriljem Voodoo Rhythm Records-a, plod njegove kreativne eksplozije tijekom razdoblja korone. Album se sastoji od 14 ubojitih traka od 35 snimljenih sjajnih pjesama koje su iznimno snažnog izričaja, a prenose priče o sramoti, kazni, tuzi i rudimentarnom svakodnevnom životu vijezde punk rocka.
Glupost punka i jednostavnost techna stapaju se s očajnom dušom bluesa. Urban Junior je glazbeni i fizički fenomen. Ovo je elektronski trash, garažni boogie, disco blues punk više razine, jedinstven i superioran. Tekstovi su poetska otkrivenja između ludila, straha, bijesa, tuge i nade. Urban et Orbi – 14 potpuno novih hitova. Hrskavi i kremasti, ritmični i urlikajući, šavovi svježi i svrabni, neovisno o čemu se radi, on to radi i ubija! Bitno za napomenuti – cijeli album je osobni napad i povratak, kao što je primjerice “C.C.S.” izjava protiv raka.
METRONOME (USA)
Urban Junior began his musical career in the late 1990s in one of the rare Swiss boy-Group pop bands. Now in the post Corona era, he re- invents himself in techno garage punk mode. Guitars are backed by drum machine and the vocals are heavily e ects-laden. He somehow gives the squelchy outburst a structure that builds tension and maintains the grove thanks to superb arrangements, which make “Big Ego” a standout. “Everyday Can Get You Down” then combines fuzzy garage punk with a funky rap ethos for extra street cred.
There are some heavily modi ed vocal samples on “Badabing,” but I’ll qualify it as an eclectic instrumental. A cold wave hits you on “Streets of your Town” where synthy bass lines and a robotic rhythm evokes a captivating avor of doom and gloom. If Kraftwerk had done the blues, “Normal” is what it would have sounded like. In turn, “Gotta Lotta Love” would have been a big hit in the Batcave. It’s actually quite danceable.
“Whatever” in turn, becomes more industrial, preserving the best of Ministry on a small payroll. There’s a playful synth element to “Alive” that makes it even spookier, like the Tubular Bells epic ages ago. Urban Junior vents some angry steam for the next couple of tracks. Thankfully he returns to hook- lled 1977 punk on “Please Don’t Be Yourself” with loads of pop sensibilities hiding within the mix and behind the catchy guitar ri age. If you want something minimalist, yet raw and clever, look no further. [Gecko]
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