XLR8R / issue 38 (late 99) p.77 / album reviews 

»I don’t have no baseball cap/ cos I don’t play baseball«. Yes! Leave it
to the Germans to remind us that half the electronic music sky is held
by awkward, pop-muzik-loving, solder-licking geeks! Bernhard Kirsch and
Dragan Espenscheid -described by their press as »to German boys who
played too many video games in their youth« – hand over a
dozen-and-a-half tracks worth of proof that you’ve never really needed
even a record player to join the technolution. Made on archaic, homemade
sound software and whatever dimestore elektronisch toys they could find,
Maxi German Rave Blast Hits 3 provides comic relief without overdoing
the silliness. Combining club-scene satire (the hillarious a capella
club anti-hit 'Acid Mouth', replete with voiced acid FX) with clanky,
dorked-out new-wave ('RNAY' and 'In Rock 16 Bit') and technophobic
commentary ('Kabelfreaks' and 'Die Tragodie Von Karl-Dieter'), the
bewildering Bodenstandig 2000 are here to make us scenesters squirm. And
yeah, its all sung in German, which is apparently why no German label
would touch ‘em (nice move, Rephlex). »All girls move them boy / And the
girls shake their heads wisely« (Ron Nachmann)

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Text kostenneutral ins Deutsche.