Tom Morello releases EDM album – ‘The Atlas Underground’
Tom Morello is dabbling in the EDM side of music.
Best known as the guitarist for legendary 90’s/2000’s band Rage Against The Machine, Tom Morello’s shreddage will forever be remembered.
Now, embarking on a solo career, Morello has just released his new album titled “The Atlas Underground” which goes in an interesting direction- EDM.
Don’t fret, he hasn’t traded his guitar for synths but rather aims to use his guitar as synths. He also enlisted the collaborative expertise from big EDM names like Steve Aoki, Knife Party, Bassnectar and Pretty Lights.
“I wanted to make a record that was unapologetically a guitar album, but that had the sonic imprints of 2018,” he’s explained in an interview with Rolling Stone
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“What I heard in their music was very simpatico with the analog rock & roll music that I love best,” he says of Atlas Underground contributors such as Bassnectar and Knife Party.
“It was the tension and release, it was the huge drops, it was the communal frenzy that they created, for me in the mosh pit, for them on the dancefloor.” Morello’s strategy was simple: “What if we take your production techniques, but replace your synthesizers with guitars?”
Speaking of his contribution to the album, Steve Aoki said:
“I wanted to get reinvigorated by that blog-house-era electro sound that was my flag back in the day that I was waving, bringing back the punk and hardcore sound and ideology into electronic music.”
Tom Morello ‘The Atlas Underground’ is out now; check the official lyric video for the track he did with Steve Aoki and Tim Mcllrath called “How Long.”
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