ULTRAnumb, on Dispatch from the Razor's Edge

A number of you responded rather positively to my brief dispatch last year about Celldweller, perhaps the very best one-man electronic-rock outift you've never heard of. Well, here's a brief one about his label-mate Blue Stahli (masterminded by his buddy Bret). Blue Stahli's self-titled debut (or from Amazon here) is an immense piece of work.

Its kick-off track, however, called "Ultranumb", is to my mind one of best, most powerful, and most thrilling rock songs ever recorded. It is also – and I say this after a decade-long career of collecting thousands of tracks to power my workouts and runs – THE SINGLE BEST WORKOUT SONG OF ALL TIME. As I noted in my site for such things:

Blue Stahli has serious black magic – putting together song after song that is jaw-droppingly good, hard, smart, and original. This track is nearly perfect – and has nearly everything: giant guitars, an enormous rolling chorus, unget-out-of-head-able hooks, a sultry female voice layered in, mystical lyrics. And power to burn. Don't be surprised if you find yourself playing this song over and over again – because nothing else in your workout playlist quite stacks up. This one goes to 11.

The occasion for this notice is that he's now done a video for the song. Be warned that it's a bit R-rated – with some images that are a bit disturbing in counterpoint to one another, or really just on their own. It's also amazing. And the opening chords of this song still make my heart race, after a thousand listens. Go get some today.

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Dispatch from the Razor's Edge is owned and operated by novelist, technologist, vegan, exercise junkie, classical liberal, rambler, and Londoner Michael Stephen Fuchs.

Fuchs is the author of the novels The Manuscript and Pandora's Sisters, both published worldwide by Macmillan in hardback, paperback and all e-book formats (and in translation); the D-Boys series of high-tech, high-concept, spec-ops military adventure novels – D-Boys, Counter-Assault, and Close Quarters Battle (coming in 2016); and is co-author, with Glynn James, of the bestselling Arisen series of special-operations military ZA novels. The second nicest thing anyone has ever said about his work was: "Fuchs seems to operate on the narrative principle of 'when in doubt put in a firefight'." (Kirkus Reviews, more here.)

Fuchs was born in New York; schooled in Virginia (UVa); and later emigrated to the San Francisco Bay Area, where he lived through the dot-com boom. Subsequently he decamped for an extended period of tramping before finally rocking up in London, where he now makes his home. He does a lot of travel blogging, most recently of some very long walks around the British Isles. He's been writing and developing for the web since 1994 and shows no particularly hopeful signs of stopping.

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