Year : 1993 (Japan Edition)
Style : Melodic Hard Rock , AOR
Country : Italy
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 153 mb
Bio:
Elektradrive is one of the most significant Hard Rock - A.O.R. bands to emerge from Italy.At the very start, in 1983, the name of the band was Overdrive and they had a four-piece line up without keyboards; after one year they added the keyboards and became Elektradrive.Elektradrive's debut single 'Let it Survive' was released on 1984 by Smoko Records. Elektradrive were featured, in the same year on the compilation 'HM Eruption' with the song 'Lord of the Rings', and in the compilation 'Metallo Italia' with 'Winner' the year after. In 1985 the band produced a videoclip for 'Winner'.Elektradrive's debut full length album, 'Over The Space' was released in 1986 via Discotto Records followed by a three months national tour.The most famous - and widely appreciated - album by Elektradrive, 'Due', was released in 1989 via Minotauro. 'Due' received excellent feedback from the international press, including 5K's on Kerrang Magazine from Dave Reynolds (at the same time, Whitesnake's Slip of the Tongue received 3K's.In the same year Elektradrive played with Manowar at Palasport Torino. An intensive international tour followed.Elektradrive's third album 'Big City' was released by Dracma Records in 1993. 'Big City' was reviewed by many as album of the month.In 1994 'Due' and 'Big City' were distributed in Japan by EMI/Toshiba and in Europe by Long Island Records.After almost ten years of silence, in 2004, Elektradrive start writing songs for a new album: the line up now back to the four original members but without keyboards.Elektradrive's great new album is 'Living 4', masterpiece that took the band three years of hard work for the writing and recording process.'Living 4' is a mature concept album of modern-classy and bluesy-AOR with committed lyrics about environment, corporations, water scarcity and general concerns on the state of our planet.The album was released early in 2009 and gained rave reviews in Italian and European music magazines.The band is now touring, with gigs in the most important Italian cities, and played some festivals with Bonfire.
Album:
ELEKTRADRIVE is one of the most significant – and pioneer – Melodic Rock / AOR bands to emerge from Italy, one of the first to fully develop both genres in their homeland. At the very start in the early eighties the name of the band was Overdrive and they were a four-piece basically playing NWOBHM. After being included in a couple of compilations and a debut single, they added keyboards to their sound and became Elektradrive, recording the debut in 1986.But the band become widely appreciated (and toured internationally) with 1989’s ‘Due’, settling into a style that saw a combination of British AOR with Euro Melodic Rock, plenty of synths and driving guitars in the best Shy, Rescue or Zinatra tradition.Elektradrive’s third album “Big City” was released by Italian label Dracma Records in 1993, the following year in Japan, and the mythical Long Island Records published it through Europe in 1995. All featured different artwork by the way.Still retaining the Euro AOR / MR lineage, “Big City” adds some American sounds to the recipe, influenced by bands such as Extreme and the stylized Dokken in less degree.We have very melodic numbers as “Rocking On The Bad Side”, “Still Remember”, “The Riot Of The Young Guns” or the commercial “Hear It On The Radio”, together with more edgy tunes in the title track “Big City”, the Dokken-esque “Escape From The Rock” and the syncopated “Latin Lover”.For “Big City XX Anniversary” we have a track originally left off from the original release, “Fly High (Hero)”, previously only appeared in their Italian label compilation ‘Nightpieces vol. 5’. A good keyboard driven tune, although the production quality differs from the rest of the material.Also featured as bonus is “Snake ’92”, a fine semi-midtempo melodic rocker which is a re-arranged song from their ’86 debut.Long time out of print, this is your opportunity to get a very good Melodic Rock / AOR album now at a regular price.
Line-Up:
Elio Maugeri - Vocals
Simone Falovo - Guitar
Stefano Turolla - Bass
Eugenio Manassero - Keyboards
Alex Jorio - Drums
Produced by Elektradrive
Recorded and Mixed at Dracma Studios S/O/N/D/J '92-'93
Mixed by Eugenio Manassero, Elektradrive & Nino Giuffrida
Tracklist:
01. Rockin' On The Bad Side
02. Big City
03. Still Remember
04. Latin Lover
05. Fast As An Arrow
06. Escape From The Rock
07. The Riot Of The Young Guns
08. Lucille
09. She Will Be Hangin' Over
10. Hear It On The Radio
11. Hitman Boogie
12. Snale '92 (Bonus Track)
13. Against The Stream (Bonus Track)
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