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Midnight Juggernauts - Dystopia
 01 Intro 02 Ending Of An Era 03 Into The Galaxy 04 Shadows <--------------------Love this track ! 05 Worlds Converged 06 Dystopia 07 Road To Recovery 08 Scorpius 09 Twenty Thousand Leagues 10 Tombstone 11 Nine Lives 12 So Many Frequencies 13 Aurora Linkage to downloadage 
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"A stunning record, Dystopia flows from one surreal track to the next, with the resonance of a film score that could have been produced in 1981 or somewhere in the distant future, giving it a sense of timelessness achieved by few."
- Lifelounge "Destined to do for electronic music in Australia what Daft Punk's Homework did in France a decade ago - start a movement nationally and turn heads worldwide - the debut set from this Melbourne/Sydney trio is an elegantly storming set of lucious grooves topped off with sci-fi imagery and prog-rock echoes. 9/10. - Sydney Morning Herald "Like The Rapture with John Carpenter on keys, their pummelling space-disco is the perfect bridge between Bloc Party's indie elegies and a synapse-shredding Justice DJ set" - NME Favourite new band: Midnight Juggernauts. Favourite songs of the Year: Midnight Juggernauts - Into The Galaxy - Pitchfork (chosen by Justice) "Feature Album. Dystopia is spectacularly realised with its artful sci-fi theme, allusions to space travel, gothic overtones and dramatic flourishes reminiscent of the New Romantics - or Bowie homself. In a word: Grand. 4.5 / 5" - Herald Sun "Listening to Dystopia, the outstanding debut set from Melbourne’s Midnight Juggernauts, may break a few listening habits you’ve long held true. For a start, it comes with an intro piece that could be an outtake to the Blakes’s 7 score: space symphonies are an enduring motif on the album, linking the contemporary beats to the full spectrum of prog shadings that the group casually but carefully integrate. You may have ducked keyboard pomp until now, but the duo makes it work as a rich texture that offsets their industry. To put it another way, Air’s effort’s to channel Rick Wakeman have been shot down by this disc. From the relentless thump of ‘Ending of an Era’ onwards, Dystopia is joyous but never facile. It surges but doesn’t always smile, taking in all kinds of astral tweaks: late 70s Bowie, Krautrock and Giorgio Moroder at his iciest. The lyrics – per the album’s title – reflect on endings and collapse, but the tunes serve only to build in scale. ‘Worlds Converged’ is melancholic electronica, while ‘Road to Recovery’ remains a thrilling Daft Punk gambit. Quite when two mates from Melbourne who used to play the odd gig and had christened themselves after various dictators became the country’s leading electronic act is unclear, but that title is more than earned by the breadth and sheer impressiveness of this collection. And if it sounds like it exists in a galaxy far, far away, then zero in on the brilliant ‘Into The Galaxy’. Just when it sounds like it’s gone overboard with the martial strutting, there’s a rock & roll refrain to bring it back home: “G-L-O-R-I-A”. Amen." - Mess + Noise
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