American Breakbeat – Rebuilt Compilation

Sascha Kösch | De:Bug

Do I need to understand the concept of this record? Nope. Or maybe anyway. You just can’t get around it. Because you know most of the acts on this gigantic double CD compilation, or you should, because you will love every track, no matter which sound you actually prefer to listen to, but because the concept of this CD is perhaps not just simply good tracks, but the damn digital versatility and globality par excellence, which is more than just a few experiments with the latest VST plug-ins or a showoff of bizarre programming, it is above all, with every track, always a brilliantly completely new scene, a world, a landscape, a piece of conquered reality that you didn’t even know existed and a kind of declaration of love for everything that may still lie out there and can never be defined. Who all is on these 34 tracks? Ultra Milkmaids, Leafcutter John, Pastacas, Donacha Costello, Tilliander, Miraq, Fibla, Goem, Sonic Dragolgo, Pimmon, Epy, Frankulin, Panacea to name a few, but it’s the many new acts that Klangkrieg, who have been throwing some of the most musically advanced parties/concerts in Berlin for years, have dug up here that make the whole thing so great. ES from Finland, Borko from Iceland, Slepcy from Poland, Ford Proco from Mexico and wherever else they all come from and are called. A standard work of digital endlessness and still damn nice to listen to and always surprising between the quietest, sweetest tracks and the crudest banging.