Die wohl längste CD-Kritik der Welt
17/XI/2009
Die wohl längste CD-Kritik der Welt
Tyske Ludder - German Industrial | EBM | Dark Electro | IDM | Gothic | Electronic Body Music | Darkwave | Mera Luna | WGT
Wir waren ganz schön "Baff", als wir diese wohl längste, intensivste und ausführlichste Review über das aktuelle Tyske Ludder "Anonymous" Album durch Zufall gefunden haben. Wir denken, so müssen CD-Kritiken sein:
"Tyske Ludder is a Frisian band mixing electro and EBM with a harsh old school touch. This band is considered as a pioneer in European EBM and Dark Electro scene and recently toured in the whole continent, even played with monuments as DAF.
After the controversial EP “SCIENTific technOLOGY”, the trio is back with a new album “Anonymous”. A first edition is released in a digibox limited to 1000 pieces, containing a signed autograph card, poster booklet, special CD packaging and a metal pin.We note samples of shouting, tortured people (Frya Frisena, Narben) and others (Bastard) directly setting a dark and horrible atmosphere. Threatening synths (Frya Frisena), really dark (Shokkz, Gebet), adorned with the collision of many electronic sounds (Bastard) achieve in creating wonderfully catchy melodies (Frya Frisena) even epic (Narben) or notoriously 'victorious' ones (March).
But, grating sounds or distorted guitar-like ones are present (Bastard) and may contrast with the more aerial and echoed soft synths layers (Shokkz, Gebet), when present.
Tempo is quite slow, steady (Frya Frisena, Psychoaktiv), very slow (Maschinenstaat) or just normal (Shokkz), anyway, most of the time very danceable (Gebet). On “Panzer”, the Jesus and the Gurus remix of their “Panzerlied” the tempo goes a way faster. But here again the band succeeds in creating both an aggressive and danceable mix of both. The fineries of rhythmic layers are very well integrated to those of the varied and changing melodic synths/electronic noises layers.
Rhythmics are quite simple but efficient (Frya Frisena) with old-styled sounds and patterns (Shokkz). “Bastard” demonstrates how powerful and efficient a seemingly calm rhythm may be: hammered beats are highly dancing and trance-inducing. The modified snare-like sound typical for EBM bands is present (Psychoaktiv, Fix the Beat), also with a strengthened brutality.
On “Fix the Beat”, the rhythm is quite techno-styled, really steady, very danceable, very straightforward, easy to grasp. But, clearly, the diversity of sounds, the really dark synths' sounds, the vocals, the aggressiveness of the whole, as well as the protest-tone of lyrics don't make of this a mainstream act at all. Indeed, this very track is mocking mainstream commercial music.
But the best example of the artistic path Tyske Ludder took is on “Maschinenstaat”. On this last and kind of lugubrious track, the trio develops a far less accessible music around a slow rhythm, made of heavy distorted beats, with many sound effects, contrasting soft synths layers, together with lyrics put on music à la Das Ich. In brief, we can feel some influence of first electronic/industrial artists here, as well as an attempt to reorganize it adding many sounds and effects.
More original transitions than usual projects from the genre (Frya Frisena), or many times modifications in sounds within a musical part. Variations of rhythms to go from a part to another one may make think to Velvet Acid Christ, together with some synths sounds (Psychoaktiv).
Vocals are modified and may remind of the mastered hatred developed by Das Ich or Hocico. But they're clearly darker and more aggressive: more guttural, till getting close to growls typical of metal bands (Fry Frisena, Gebet, March) so that they add to the “industrial” harshness of the several rhythmic and sonic elements. The whole creates a sick dark technological atmosphere (Frya Frisena), really dark (Gebet), which perfectly illustrates the lyrics and thematics the band talks about.
We don't feel tracks are ~5 minutes long: Tyske Ludder is really able to fill the sonic space with many different and contrasted sound layers, although without excess. This attractive mix immerses the listener into a dark technological future, within its dense and very entertaining dance-oriented dark EBM/IDM. I'd say IDM, clearly, for the tracks are too long nd too subtle to be simply commercial works, their transitions and all the melodic and sounds' are, on most tracks, filled with fineries, many electronic noises, requiring several listenings to be fully appreciated.
Tyske Ludder unifies many contrasting elements between an old-school tradition, even with more industrial influences, together with a more modern composition and sounds, closer to IDM; it mixes harsh sounds, heavy punching beats and growled vocals together with rather atmospheric sweet melodies and a bunch of electronic noises; within a rather simple rhythmic structure, it develops complexity through the variety of transitions, sounds and effects.
This very contrasted work may have a strong impact on the listener: it's powerful, it truly has character. It's recommended for EBM and hellektroindus fans, for those who like Hocico and Das Ich style, with some synths à la Velvet Acid Christ and a Feindflug-esque danceable straightforwardness, as far as they're not afraid of this combination of harshness and brutality together with a melodic development mixing a certain IDM-styled complexity and dance-oriented sides.
In a way, this new Tyske Ludder album is original because of the influences it successfully integrates which may allow people with slightly different tastes to like it. Fans may just appreciate it as a continuation of the band's direction, while those who don't know it yet may just get a big kick in their ass!
Thus, “Anonymous” may not long stay so anonymous... Check it out!
Sunday, November 15 2009 @ 02:00 AM PST
Contributed by: Perceptron
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