Nuclear Beef

German Techno Pop Audio Beef Today. It takes five German guys produce... Einmusik.

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.)