Echokrank - Echokrank

Our recommendation for the hearing impaired: ECHOKRANK.

Ear drum piercer Brezel Göring and thrash lout „Hotleg“ have committed themselves to a reckless and impulsive mix of Dub-Psycho-Speed-New Wave, action film soundtracks and 50’s Musique Concrète. For several years, these two desperados have hacked their way through the unpredictable weeping fistulas of post-industrial easy listening. In doing so they combine genre-spanning arranged marriages and acceleration of track playback speed. The music is played on children’s toys and fleamarket trash. Consequently their more or less ordered noises, erratic arrangements and bizarre sequences mutate into an amorphous Gesamtkunstwerk.

Brezel Göring’s 2003 debut on Gagarin Records caused high blood pressure among intransigent fans. His hit „Geliebt und doch nicht gefeuert“ (Loved yet not fired) was released as a 12 inch on the Belgian label „Surprise“ and defiled with dance exercise remixes.

ECHOKRANK shine a light on the ugly side of the entertainment industry, getting moody people in the mood. The declared goal of this music is to bring chaos to order. It is an official tribute to the irregular, the classic freakout: sound tremors don’t rebel against the lack of innovation but against the audio events themselves. If it’s true that today’s defects will be tomorrow’s successes, then these are the defective hotshots of tomorrow. Always too much and never enough, going over the top, no matter how far, reducing to the max: these foundations make or break the whole affaire. It is magnificent that such a record is released in an era that generally lacks beauty, elegance and grace.

ECHOKRANK raise ambiguity to an art form. The songs meander, and consciously induced no-win-situations arise based on the understanding that nothing is more senseless than economic competition and the bourgeois inclination to conformity. We become witnesses to an unstable whole which could perish at any time. Anti-music and gliding tones pass the deformed musical key from hand to hand, unlocking the floodgates to an inferno of irresponsibility.  The band seems to be contented: „At least this keeps the idiots away from us.“

And what remains? – our hearing suffered.
Listening is a matter of attitude.

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