I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)Northgate is the name used since 1992 by Trevor, to sign his solo projects. The concept is not having a "one man band", but a group, whose components change according to the style options and the music ideas. Northgate's artistic path swings between electronic-noises and typically Industrial terms.
After some demo tapes, during 1995 Northgate releases the LP "Liturgie pour la fin de la Patrie", printed in a very limited edition of 108 copies, now chased relentlessly by collectors and available today in CD including some bonus tracks which refer to the same period. "Liturgie" represents a fundamental step, underlined by rarefied and penetrating atmospheres but always under the banner of self-production.
Psychodrama (1998) is a tribute to the most extreme "power-electronics": a change of language and instrumentation, made in order to stop being considered an "apocalyptic band" at all costs...
Quite different is the structure of "The Blue builders", perhaps the most ripe result at research and experimental level. Preceded by the single "In every Dreamhome a Heartache" (not included in the CD), "The Blue builders" collects the atmospheres of the metropolis and the noise of the construction, in the most physical sense (as underlined by the perturbing cover). Sounds are generated by conventional instruments, and by machines, moving from the "soft" electronics of "Monique Electronique" towards the Eighties passages of "Fidia", down to the devasting title track....
The new album Terrarivum IV , preceded by the single Forever Charming (as usual not included in the album), presents big differences from the previous releases, and a step towards the future of Northgates sound. The arrival of DAN, the guitarist now involved, brings the band towards a darker psychedelia.
The new line-up also include YLO , who used to play in Cold and author of various Japan noise projects, and IL BUE, whose main band are Larsen.
This new incarnation recently released Oldkoala EP, which bears sounds considered as the new expression of the group sounds.
Full band's history available on the website: www.northgate.it
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