Kompromat – Lift Me Up

EBM vibes and electroclash energy: Kompromat impresses with "Lift Me Up"

Sometimes I dis­cov­er a song that grabs me imme­di­ately, and Lift Me Up by Kompromat is one of those songs. The French mas­ters of EBM, Synth Pop and Electroclash, con­sist­ing of Vitalic & Rebeka Warrior (Sexy Sushi, Mansfield.TYA), have cre­ated a track that, for me, is an excit­ing tightrope walk between clar­ity and chaos. The driv­ing, fat elec­tro beat forms the basis, but what really makes the track spe­cial are the contrasts.

First, there are the famil­i­ar female vocals, which seem gentle, almost del­ic­ate – a mix­ture of French and English pas­sages that sound to me like a love let­ter to the romance of club nights. In stark con­trast to this are the dirty syn­thes­izers in the chor­us, which give the song exactly what I want from mod­ern elec­tron­ic music: edges and moments of sur­prise. The sound remains very clean and clear, which gives the dirty synths all the more room to unfold their effect.

I find the bridge in the middle of the song par­tic­u­larly strong. Right at the point where many tracks could sag, Lift Me Up really turns up the heat. The energy is cranked up again, and I felt like the track was lit­er­ally push­ing me for­ward. The mix of EBM and elec­tro­clash is really unusu­al, but it works here. To me, it sounds mod­ern and nos­tal­gic at the same time, almost like a trib­ute to the wild times of the genres.

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