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NYX - The
First Aeon NYX - The First Aeon (CD 2002) (Plastic Passion www.start.at/plastic / www.nyx.ipfox.com )
NYX – Siberian (MCD 2001) (Plastic Passion / www.nyx.ipfox.com )
As an appetizer for this album, NYX released the MCD „Siberian“, a nice, self produced three-track piece. First comes the title track „Siberian“, a very dancable Electro-Wave song with a poppy feeling and great female vocals. Second track is „Can You Feel It“, a much more minimalistic and cold Electro track, which reminds me a bit on the early recordings of Hipnosis or Laser Dance, very 80s influenced, somewhere between soundtrack music and dancefloor filler. Third and last song is the original (I think, it means an older) version of „Siberian“. This one sounds a lot like the German Electro-Pop-Band X-Perience, who had a major hit with „The Neverending Dream“ some years ago. „Siberian“ shows a lot of the potential of NYX and is a very promising release on the way to the complete album. (A.P.) |
After
the advance CD-single „Siberian“ in 2001, finally the first complete album
of Finland´s NYX is out on the Plastic Passion label and it is a wonderful
addition to all Future-Pop (or however you would call it) collections. The
music is mostly dancable and electronically based, but what makes NYX
special are the female vocals of Marie Hedberg, who worked in the fields of
Classical music and Theatre before. Some songs are really poppy, well, it
can be called Synthie-Pop („Siberian“), but the band also has some harder,
more driving tracks like „Carnival“, which could become a Clubhit. Further
there are more mystical, atmospheric tracks and a lot of 80s influences. Let
me describe NYX as the missing link between X-Perience, No Comment and some
Heavenly Voices-bands. It would be really nice, if the band would find a
good distributor in Germany and maybe a booker, who brings them onto German
stages. Anyway, „The First Aeon“ offers great Electro-Wave with brilliant
female vocals and this should be reason enough to contact the band soon. (A.P.)
I know
NYX from Finland since the mid 90s, when they released a great tape, which
featured the brilliant track „Headwind“, which sounded like Sleeping Dogs
Wake in their best moments. After that tape, I lost contact with the band
and was very surprised, when they contacted me again in Autumn 2002,
announcing their first CD album „The First Aeon“.