ELEKTRADRIVE – Over The Space [30th Anniversary Edition / Escape Music remaster +5] *HQ*

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ELEKTRADRIVE is one of the more significant Hard Rock / AOR bands to emerge from Italy. At the very start, in 1983, the name of the band was Overdrive and they had a classic four-piece line up; after one year they added the keyboards and became ELEKTRADRIVE.
The band’s most well known work is their late ’80s second album, but this 1986 debut LP is a very good slice of European hard rock too. Escape Music did this really cool “Over The Space [30th Anniversary Edition]” remastered reissue in 2016, now back on print.

Elektradrive’s debut full length album ‘Over The Space’ was released via Discotto Records followed by a three months national tour. It was fully appreciated by many European critics, like legendary Dave Reynolds from “Metal Forces” and Kerrang!! magazine who gave them 90/100 score.
Apart from being remastered with a warm sound recalling the original vinyls, this reissue include some really hard to find material, on digital for the first time. We find Elektradrive’s debut single ‘Let it Survive’ was released on 1984 by Smoko Records. Both the single and ita B-side are part of the bonuses. Additionaly there’s fine demos (our favorite ‘You Can’t Stop Rock ‘n’ Roll / Demo 1985) and a live recording from the tour presenting ‘Over The Space’.

The band’s style then was a sort of hard/heavy rock similar at the sound of Pretty Maids / Ozzy Osbourne / Michael Schenker Group, but with a nice presence of keyboards synth sounds on it.
Highly Recommended

01 – Intro: Beginning
02 – Secret of the Holy Grave
03 – Time Machine
04 – Fortune Teller
05 – Lord of the Rings
06 – Snake (Slip On…)
07 – Against the Stream
08 – Take Off
09 – … Over the Space
10 – Song for a Feeling
11 – Clash of Tytans
12 – Midnight Passage
BONUS TRACKS:
13 – Let It Survive (1984 single)
14 – Brainstorm (1984 single B-side)
15 – Ridin’ with the Wind (Demo 1983, as Overdrive)
16 – You Can’t Stop Rock ‘n’ Roll (Demo 1985)
17 – Against the Stream (Live 1986)

Vocals – Elio Maugeri
Bass – Stefano Turolla
Drums – Alex Jorio
Guitar – Simone Falovo
Keyboards – Eugenio Manassero

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