Various Artists: Maschinenwelt
- Last Delay - Fire
- X-Marks the Pedwalk - My Back (Out-of-Order-mix)
- Sleepwalk - Brainattack
- Suicide Commando - Sweet Jesus
- Terminal Choice - Black Rubber
- Morbid Fancy - Dirty Money
- Cyber Axis - Delirious (TX-mix)
- Manipulation - Bleib Hier
- VNV Nation - After Shock
- Fuze Box Machine - Intifada (Gaza-mix)
- Faith Regime - Always for You (Tormented mix)
- The Unknown - Nation of Fear (Fear-of-Nation edit)
- Econic - We Are Econic
- E-Craft - Matris Maria
- Evil Sermon - Atomic Warfare
This first release from the label Maschinenwelt provides us with some pretty
solid talent in the electronic-industrial field, with a majority of the acts
coming from Germany, and all the tracks presented being new remixes or
unreleased songs. The standout tracks would have to be Cyber Axis track with
its heavy FLA leanings and the XTMP track, which sounds more in the direction
of his earlier material this his current techno sound. Suicide Commando
provides us with a track that has a much faster pace and is more beat-oriented
this his earlier, more minimalistic material, but still manages to instill some
dark imagery in the song. The track by Faith Regime displays a strong Nitzer
Ebb sound during much of the song, but the band knows enough to include some
additional ingredients, like a techno flavor in the chorus, to avoid sounding
like a straight imitation. The order of the tracks probably should have been
changed around a bit -- on many tracks on the first part of the disc, all the
bands seem to be using similar distortion on the vocals, which gives the
impression of listening to the same vocalist, which can be become monotonous
after a time. And for a portion of the second half of the disc, you get three
bands in a row who have a some amount of Nitzer Ebbiness to them.
(Kevin Congdon)
Contact:
Maschinenwelt Records
Postfach, 12061, Berlin
Germany
E-mail: none
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