VIOLET POISON: Awakening Messiah; Translucent Purple 12″ Vinyl

Dominick “Vatican Shadow” Fernow presents veiled techno producer Violet Poison on his Bed Of Nails imprint with the spectral industrial gloom of ‘Awakening Messiah’. To date Violet Poison is best known as the mysterious accomplice of Shaped Noise in their Violetshaped alias – but here he strikes solo, transmitting four cuts of steely, night-stalking cyberpunk driven by sputtering techno engines through intensely bleak synth interzones. Like Black Rain or Vatican Shadow, it’s a chilling exercise in transposing techno from pure dancefloor functionality into the nether realms of sonic fiction, maintaining an unbroken mise-en-scene from the aerial autobahn motion of ‘Aenigma Messiah’ strafed with speeding synths and steady motorik rumble, or encroaching gangs of destitute, bloodthirsty robots in ‘Babylon Suicide’ and implanting fake memories of misadventure in the PTSD-triggering atmospheres of ‘Osiris Antichrist’. It’s manna for the shadow dwellers….