Eine Nacht In Cairo is a re-release of Die Fische's impossible to find second album from 1986 back when they were part of Dusseldorf's NDW scene having moved there from Ratingen.
The album opens with Eine Nacht In Cairo that starts off as a rudimentary techno dance number before going a lot more ambient with lots of Egyptian percussion as it builds back into a Yello goes Egyptian techno dance tune.
So Verruckt reminds me of Tuxedomoon and is built around a central bass line with all sorts of weird voices and synth sounds coming and going on this quite doom-laden song.
Lost Pilots is a synth pop song about well the search for Lost Pilots after the plane goes down it has crunchy guitar and in the way the bass works is similar to English groups of the time like Heist in having a bit of a funk punk attitude.
Beil Heim Bah has sinuous bass and synth lines coupled with vocals that are a little bit Mark E Smith that jar against the percussion nicely.
Im Sonnenschein is a rather laconic sounding slice of synth pop whose keyboards swell as it leads to quite an odd ending.
Cars 'n Bikes these days would be a song of the battle between the two and in this case is a very Kraftwerk influenced slice of Computer pop with lots of car and bike sounds and questioning the relationship between man and machine, this is very catchy and with the right promo might have been a hit.
Eyes Grey As Heaven is a cool synth love song with the odd twist set against a nice basic drum pattern that in places again has echoes of Yello but crossed with The Red Guitars.
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The Fisherman opens like it's on the soundtrack to something like Gregory's Girl or a similar sweet film and once the dance beat really gets going this sounds like a mid-80's floor filler apart from the lyrics about where Fisherman can fish and obviously fish quotas dictate where that might be, it was certainly a big issue at the time.
From Machine To Machine sounds like it could have been huge in Poland like Red Box were, at least the lyrics make more sense than Red Box did, this is a slow gentle synth led anthem to the glory of machines.
Fire Of Love opens like a mid-80's overly pretentious Simple Minds song, but thankfully by the time the vocals come in it has become rather more gentle and interesting and a bit early Thompson Twins, this is quite elegiac and is understandably one of the bands best known songs.
Conversation Of Everyday-Lovers has a slowly evolving percussive intro with chiming noises and synth washes that slowly build over the course of this moody instrumental.
The album closes with Ein Freitag Im Marz that has some fusion bass set against the Egyptian style percussion and atmospherics taking us on a journey into space.
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