German Techno Pop Audio Beef Today. It takes five German guys produce... Einmusik.
'We Interrupt This Program (Einmusik Remix)'
from 2005's
'We Interrupt This Program' 12 inch vinyl
by
Coburn
remixed by
Einmusik
on
Great Stuff Records,
Germany
Sometimes when I'm listening to my Winamp shuffle, I come across a song by an artist I've never heard. In the best cases, this random play opens a window into a whole new world. First, I find out who the artist is and what label they're on. I then start collecting their work and other material on associated labels until I hopefully have many new entries in my "favorite artists" list.
Other times, I hear a good song and discover that it's literally the only good song by the artist. This club track from German acts Coburn and Einmusik is one of those cases. I hunted down the rest of their work and none of it really had the same feel or excitement. I even listened to everything else on 'Great Stuff' Records and was disappointed to find that it all pretty much sucks!
How can I like a remix of artist whose music I don't like by another artist whose music I don't like? I'm confused, but I can report for certain that I do rather like this track.
'We Interrupt This Program' is a piece of Techno-Pop fluff which I'm sure went over huge in the German market. It would never in six billion years be played on American radio, because it's a loopy little club anthem with more energetic glitchy edits than editorial foundation. I suppose I've become addicted to glitch-pop in 2006, perhaps my mind is going soft but I increasingly find myself wanting to hear music that's stumbling over itself. It also doesn't hurt that the lead synth is a new-school rave hoover sound and that all of the breakdowns are well constructed. Solid choon all around, really, and designed for the peak hour dance floor.
Einmusik is a group made of three DJs, one each of whom plays Gabber, Drum And Bass and Techno. Unfortunately, that unique pedigree doesn't show in most of their relentlessly typical music. I suppose that the quality of this remix is another case of every dog having its day. Weird.
(Shouts out to Moebius Rex, who I think of when I rock out to this track. Also shouts out to my man man, none other than Charles Ives and the cdub who brought him into my life.)
