Two totally unrelated and opposing tracks today, just doing it random, no themes, no loose ties, just . . . meh.

‘Begegnungen’ I & II and the Plank-less ‘After The Heat’ were kindly rereleased on Water in October of last year. Yeah we’re super lame for being so late, but we’re bringing it now, and we’re kind of repeating ourselves (yet again) cos our friend Lord Nuneaton Savage has already written about ‘After The Heat’ here, but heres a highlight from ‘Begenungen II’:

Eno, Moebius, Roedelius & Plank- Conditionierer

Conditionerer opens the album and is a loose marching Neu!-esque sonic prince. Motorik in a Can kind of way, so it basically makes us cream our nerdy pants. Plus its fruit from the Eno tree, so we love it before even hearing it. Theres more than a little nod to the soundtrack of Performance by Jack Nitzsche too with the slightly rockabilly soul beat and the little shards of mouth bow being thrown in here and there.

The rest of the album alternates between staring into the abyss and dancing into it with hypnotic coda from a dying robot on ‘Hasenheide’, and belchy stuttering drum-mishaps on ‘Speed Display’. Eno is a god of course and its easy to write off such an elaborate four man collaboration as experimental masturbation. We see it as the result of the four horsemen of the apocalypse entering a recording studio. This is what they came up with.

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The original of ‘Popper’ by Christopher & Raphael Just comes on like a distant cousin of ‘Rocker’ by Alter Ego, cardiac monitor bleeps and nasty-ass bass. We all secretly love that track still, even though we are sick to the tits of it, but yeah we need something fresh, enter: Fox N’ Wolf through the door marked Kitsune.

Christopher & Raphael Just- Popper (feat. Fox N’ Wolf)

80′s scamps Fox N’ Wolf crash the techno party and shred it up with bared teeth, merking the haters, shitting on your cat and tearing down the curtains in true mad-cap anime super-deformed style, like Wiley-Kit n Wiley-Kat if they’d of listened to grime and smoked wizzy!

Nicking vocals from their own “hit”, ‘Electric Date’, and then elaborating a bit, they manage to channel the best elements of decent Erasure and maybe even Jimmy Sommerville falsettos for extra camp value. Its like day-glo EBM which is better known as Rave! They also twist the cowbell into something resembling that one from Lipps Inc’s ‘Funky Town’, but do it better than Soulwax did on that gimmicky bootleg thing.

Soulwax got merked too! Theres no stopping these kids!

Fox N’ Wolf have indeed signed to Kitsune so expect more from them and maybe (just maybe) a possible live appearance on a Brighton disco floor…

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