| Ultraviolence | |
|---|---|
| Origin | London |
| Genres | Industrial, hardcore, electronica, techno |
| Years active | 1991–2004, 2010–present |
| Labels | Earache Records, Food Records, White Label Music, Safe |
| Members | |
| Johnny Violent, Mel Allezbleu | |
Ultraviolence is an industrial/techno band formed in London in 1991 and headed by 'the Quentin Tarantino of techno'[1] Johnny Violent (b. Jonathan Casey). To date, they have released five studio albums, including a ten-year retrospective,[2] and six EPs/singles. The group have produced a number of club classics[3] which include the tracks Hardcore Motherfucker and Psycho Drama and have been recognised as being at the 'forefront of the UK Industrial-Cyber scene'.[4] The Ultraviolence sound incorporates elements from various styles including hardcore techno/gabber, breakbeat hardcore, industrial techno, power noise, metal and rap.
A substantial body of the Ultraviolence releases received positive critical reception[5] since the first album Life of Destructor gaining '5Ks' from Kerrang magazine.[6] In 2004 Ultraviolence released a retrospective two CD album titled Blown Away 1994-2004.[4]'[1][7]
Johnny Violent has worked with several female vocal artists on different releases, but as of 2005, singer and angle grinding stage performer Mel Allezbleu has become a permanent member of the band.
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History [link]
Johnny Casey first experimented in making electronic music in his teens. After attending Goldsmiths College in London for a diploma in sound engineering and working in a record shop, he tried his hand at gigging locally with a college friend.
Johnny got into production in a serious way in late 1990 and adopted the name Johnny Violent (aka Ultraviolence) in reference to the film A Clockwork Orange. He saved up money for some studio time and recorded and handful of tracks including "You'll Never Sleep Tonight" which was played by John Peel on BBC Radio 1 and gained the attention of London label Food Records, who signed Johnny in 1992.
The relationship between Ultraviolence and the trendy, indie-orientated Food Records was never likely to be a happy one and soon dissolved. In fact it was 1994 before the debut album Life of Destructor was released on Nottingham's Earache Records label. Earache had been previously known for releasing extreme heavy metal acts such as Carcass and Napalm Death. Nevertheless, the relationship between Johnny and Earache's label owner Digby Pearson proved a fruitful and durable one over the next decade.
It was the second Ultraviolence album, Psycho Drama (1996), that made critics start to believe there was more to the act than pure noise terror. Highly ambitious in concept and execution, Psycho Drama was a full-length gabber "opera", telling the tortured love story of the "Hitman" and "Jessica" characters.
In 1995, Ultraviolence toured the US with fellow UK industrialists Cubanate. However, the limitations of Johnny’s one-man stage shows were becoming apparent and American audiences never quite took to Ultraviolence like Techno-aware European crowds. From this point on, Johnny usually appeared on-stage backed by various singers, dancers and showers of sparks from male or female angle-grinders.
The third album, 1998's Killing God marked a new transition to a new, more commercial Ultraviolence sound, dubbed "happy hardcore" by some, although the lyrical themes remained as bleak as ever. The album contained a cover of the Black Sabbath classic song "Paranoid".
In 2001, the fourth Ultraviolence album, Superpower was released, again groping for a wider market.
Discography [link]
- Life of Destructor (1994)
- Psycho Drama (1996)
- Killing God (1998)
- Superpower (2001)
- Blown Away 1994-2004 (2004)
Notes [link]
- ^ a b New Releases, Sandman Magazine, https://www.sandmanmagazine.co.uk/oldsite/york/newreleases/nr008/nr008.html, retrieved 17 July 2010
- ^ Blown Away 1994-2004, Amazon.co.uk, https://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00067ZP2U/teamultraviol-21, retrieved 17 July 2010
- ^ Ultraviolence Interview, Side-Line Magazine, https://www.side-line.com/interviews_comments.php?id=5924_0_16_0_C, retrieved 17 July 2010
- ^ a b Best Of The Batch: Stocking Stuffers, MusicDish, https://www.musicdish.com/mag/index.php3?id=9916, retrieved 17 July 2010
- ^ Ultraviolence: Superpower, Metro Times, https://www.metrotimes.com/music/review.asp?rid=15536, retrieved 17 July 2010
- ^ Life of Destructor, Kerrang! Magazine issue 517
- ^ Ultraviolence Blown Away 94-04, dB Magazine, https://www.dbmagazine.com.au/359/cd-Ultraviolence.shtml, retrieved 17 July 2010
External links [link]
https://wn.com/Ultraviolence
Ultraviolence (song)
"Ultraviolence" is a song recorded by American singer and songwriter Lana Del Rey for her third studio album, Ultraviolence (2014). It was co-written by Del Rey, and Daniel Heath, and produced by Dan Auerbach. The song was released on June 4, 2014, by Polydor and Interscope Records, as the third single from Ultraviolence. A music video, directed by Francesco Carrozzini, was released on July 30, 2014.
Composition
According to Brenna Ehrlich of MTV News, "Ultraviolence" tells the story of a "typical Lana Del Rey romantic relationship: broken, failed and painful." The song contains a reference of The Crystals’ 1962 single "He Hit Me (It Felt Like a Kiss)" in its chorus. Kevin Rutherford of Radio.com remarked that "Ultraviolence" maintained the theme of songs previously released from the album, it "ups the lilting, low-tempo, strings-heavy form" Del Rey had established in her earlier work. Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine described "Ultraviolence" as a "laconic, string-laden torch song". In the line "I can hear sirens sirens, he hit me and it felt like a kiss," Del Rey references the 1962 The Crystals song "He Hit Me (and It Felt like a Kiss)", and, according to Harriet Gibson of The Guardian, "appear[s] to romanticise brutality". A writer for the Music Times commented that the "violins, lightly thumping drums and Del Rey's angelic singing" gave the song a "church-y" feel, pointing out that the track presented her "title sound".
Ultraviolence (band)
Ultraviolence is an industrial/techno band formed in London in 1991 and headed by 'the Quentin Tarantino of techno' Johnny Violent (b. Jonathan Casey). To date, they have released five studio albums, including a ten-year retrospective, and six EPs/singles. The group have produced a number of club classics which include the tracks Hardcore Motherfucker and Psycho Drama and have been recognised as being at the 'forefront of the UK Industrial-Cyber scene'. The Ultraviolence sound incorporates elements from various styles including hardcore techno/gabber, breakbeat hardcore, industrial techno, power noise, metal and rap.
A substantial body of the Ultraviolence releases received positive critical reception since the first album Life of Destructor gaining '5Ks' from Kerrang magazine. In 2004 Ultraviolence released a retrospective two CD album titled Blown Away 1994-2004.'
Johnny Violent has worked with several female vocal artists on different releases, but as of 2005, singer and angle grinding stage performer Mel Allezbleu has become a permanent member of the band.
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