At first I was puzzled by this, but after listening a few times I think I started to get it. It’s a short release, only 15 minutes or so, packed in an oversized DVD case, and that’s where the tension starts. It’s released on Benevolent Pain, which until recently I found only noise and noise-related sounds, and that’s the second part. Tagged with EBM oldschool electronic EBM EBM harsh and electropunk on the BandCamp page, this release holds five tracks, all short catchy songs where party and society critical thinking are leading. It’s the message above the track: function over form.
Titles like “Blumenkübel Aus Beton,” “Maschinen,” and “Schützenbrüder” will say enough for our German friends on the lyrics part. ‘Machines operate machines’, machines run exact, machines program machines, and machines optimise machines. It’s fun and makes you think, though the depth of thinking is kept on the surface. With that, I mean it’s not deep philosophical issues, but hey, who knows? Maybe it’s too deep for the current generation of the target audience.
Musically, it’s all over the place, and that’s where and why I like it. Partially, the music is electro / EBM driven—like the “Machinen” track—but another track can have downright punk rock patterns in the drum computer (“Gummijesus”), which is a ‘from the book’ example of what I think electropunk is.
So yeah, I played this one with a big smile on my face, and if you want to smile again, you might want to try it out too.
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