Nitzer Ebb will get bodies moving at the Gramercy on November 16 (photo by Emma Cohan)
Gramercy Theatre
127 East 23rd St. at Lexington Ave.
Tuesday, November 16, $33.25, 7:00
www.myspace.com/nitzerebbmusic
While we weren’t part of the initial Nitzer Ebb revolution that began in the mid-1980s with such albums as BASIC PAIN PROCEDURE (1983), THAT TOTAL AGE (1987), SO BRIGHT SO STRONG (1988), and BELIEF (1989), we have quickly fallen under the British band’s powerful techo spell with INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX (Artists Addiction, November 2010), their first new record in fifteen years. When they declare “Get down on your knees” on the disc, we can’t help but get down on our knees, and you’ll be hard-pressed not to as well. And when they proclaim, “Left right left / left right left / move that body / move that body,” with the help of Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore, we get right in line. Essex duo Douglas McCarthy and Vaughn “Bon” Harris fill INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, which inexplicably took a while to get released here in the States, with big-sounding electro-pop and thrilling techno beats, although they do slow things down on the beautiful Chili Peppers-esque “Going Away from Me.” “Again and again, I come back,” they sing on “I Am Undone,” and indeed they are back, playing a small club gig that is a far cry from their European arena tour in early 2010 supporting Depeche Mode. Joined by drummer Jason Payne, who first played with NE on the 1995 BIG HIT tour, Nitzer Ebb will be at the Gramercy Theatre on November 16, with Tense and Twitch the Ripper opening up.