Electro: Copenhagen Trains – Vandal Tactics
Cres & Cave — S-Train panel, Copenhagen Denmark (click for large)
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As you might have noticed by now, two things we are very passionate about at Cold Crush, are electro and vandalism. So naturally, we were pretty excited to be hooked up with a copy of this Danish record called Vandal Tactics, which was released on independent CPH label Cytown Records. It is actually the original soundtrack for a soon-to-be released DVD of the same name, the grand finale of a series called Copenhagen Trains.
Copenhagen Trains is a series of movies documenting CPH train graffiti. The first was released on some old school VHS shit in 1994, and Vandal Tactics will be the fourth and final movie in the series, since the second generation of the famous red “S trains” recently stopped running in Copenhagen. There is a cool story to the music itself too — since nearly every graffiti movie comes with a hip hop soundtrack, the Copenhagen Trains team decided to do things a little differently this time around and produce all the music for the soundtrack themselves. The result? Some seriously raw, lo-fi and uncompromising electro tracks of grimy 808 beats and hand-played string and synthesizer parts, five of which were chosen by Cytown Records for this OST release. All the tracks are untitled, with a wink to the secret society of train painters.
If you want some more (and we know you do) the record is available for digital download at Juno, and Clone still have some copies on vinyl too.
Cold Crush will have more on the Vandal Tactics DVD when it is released so stay tuned baby — and all you vandals, artists and bombers out there, stay up!
The original Copenhagen Trains VHS, photo by Tiws on Flickr
And to conclude, some completely unrelated trucks from CPH that were too dope not to post:
Kero + Tom Cat (All truck photos from HuskMitNaven)
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Really dope track. Proper raw shit…looking forward to see this DVD, dudes go hard in Europe…CPH baby!