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Mute Records knows how to reinvent itself as an important showcase for musical avant-garde: after the 1999 release of Avant Hard by Add N To (X), a fundamental album of post-rock electro, it is now the time for T.Raumschmiere, the current techno-punk reference figure.
Marco Haas, alias T.Raumschmiere (from traum=dream and schmieren=spread), founded the independent label S.hitkatapult in Berlin in 1997 with his friend Marcus Stotz (no translation needed here!), and after various collaborations and single releases, in 2002 he published two albums, The Great Rock’n’roll Swindle and Anti.
Last year in September, Radio Blackout finally came out, an album that synthesizes and consecrates five years of work into a finally mature work. T.Raumschmiere's motto is "stay anti," that is, the anti-conformism at the base of the punk and techno movements to which he refers musically.
The first part of the album is an exciting Berlin dance-floor: The Game Is Not Over features Miss Kittin as a punk-vocalist; Rabaukendisko is a techno-rock-noise massacre, followed by the refined and very clubby untza-untza of Wir Kinder Vom Bahnhof Strom; in psycho-goa style QuerstromzerSpaner; a beautiful electro-ambient piece brings us back to earth, the title track. The album closes with the signature track MuSickBoy ("U make me sick, I make MuSick").
The CD also includes four delectable video clips that complete and make this masterpiece even more appreciable: irresistible for sound and animation, the cartoon Monstertruckdriver.
Guys, this album is destined to become a real gem for all you electronic music lovers!
Taunus guarantees it.
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By Solomon
He really knows his stuff. This guy, just with the beat, breaks everything apart; it’s the ignorant base used as an embellishment, it is the little bow.
T. Raumschmiere is not only fun but also skilled. This is where you understand that the beat is just the cherry on top.
