This is the 40th Anniversary re-issue of Holger Hiller's debut solo album after he left Palais Schaumberg, and is comprised of Samples, cut ups and experimental pop songs that were originally inspired by seeing Blade Runner and other early 80's dystopian sci-fi visions.
The album comes crashing in with the super odd jazz punk weirdness of Leibe Beamtinnen Und Beamte.
Multi tracked vocals and an odd piano line lead us into Blass Schlafen Rabe that adds a car horn noise with odd bass interludes, that might make more sense if I understood the lyrics, but it has a wonderfully mad funky disc middle eight, like the soundtrack to a super acid fried cartoon.
Budapest-Bukarest links two cities I have fond memories of, this has a church bell tolling, some birdsong and a long tone or two, before ghostly noises come in as if your sitting in the darkest churches you can find in either city.
Jonny (Du Lump) is a pop song, but played on all the wrong instruments, its beat is steady and holds the madder samples and noises within the oddest pop realm going, while hinting at the direction techno would take a good few years later.
Akt Mit Feile (Fur A.O.) has tribal drumming, gated percussion with all sorts of oddly treated sounds like a truck with a flat battery trying to start on a winter's day, while being desperate for another squirt of easy start.
Hosen, Die Nicht Aneinander Passen has Fischer Price toy Computer noises, over the singing and other weird bits and bobs.
Chemische und Physikaliche Entdeckungen is the product of a fried mind trying to find reason among the madness, a dog barks, glitches in the machines are sampled while everything is just weirdly compelling.
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Mutter Frolichkeit has a repeating percussion loop, string samples the odd vocal interjection and bags of other worldy feelings.
Ein Bundel Der Faulnis In Der Grube experiments with speeding up and slowing down the samples, the crashing sounds, sound like they come out of a dungeon, as the whispered messages are there to startle or scare the listener into submission to the madness.
Das Feuer has a good techno beat for the repeating vocals to go over, this could easily be sampled into a techno dancefloor smash, even before the backing vocals add a few layers of otherness to it, as they go for a good Schmize as it gets to be a totally catchy song.
The album closes with Ein Hoch Auf Das Bugeln that takes some string samples and adds pots and pans percussion and spoken word vocals to some handclaps, to come up with a remarkably bonkers closing number, that may have in one small part been re-worked into a hit for The Spice Girls Zig Ah Zag Ah indeed.
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