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Recommended by us on 20th April 2011
...according to our Brian on Wed 20 Apr, 2011.
Weird how this was reviewed in The Wire magazine as a Drexciyan offshoot project (& almost critically mauled as a result!) even though it's merely Gerald Donald's guiding hand & inspiration that has steered these three Berlin-based femmes noir into this particular glacial, frosty project they're slinking through. Basically if you've not heard any of Zwischenwelt member Beta Evers' sharp, murky & seductive style of electro stretching back years on the Bunker & Creme International labels then you'll maybe not fully understand what the point is with this album. Personally I love it! Stringent, icy, moody ethereal electro torch songs that do certainly recall the sparser Dopplereffekt stuff in spirit. The Der Zyklus material also shares a measure of brittle dystopian bleakness - sonically this album fits into that clinical/minimal mould. Andrea Parker's been slinging releases out in this style & of this quality for bloody years & no-one pays any sodding attention! The minute our friends (the admittedly clued-up) Rephlex start throwing the words Zola Jesus & Drexciya into the press release, both the chin stroker techno fraternity & the nu-goth kids get all excited! Well a bit anyway. My advice is IGNORE ALL THE REVIEWS (including this one) and submerge yourself quietly into this album with good quality headphones (maybe whilst in the bath?) & hear the beautiful desolation of sad android synths, occasional female vocal nonchalance & crisp electroid beats 'n' pulses mingling with some totally out-there glistening cyber-sounds! It's on Rephlex you see. These people don't put rubbish "trendy" music out. Be warned!!
FEATURED IN FACT MAGAZINE'S TOP 10 ACTS TO MAKE A SPLASH IN 2011! : “An international trio of female artists making icy techno-pop inspired by parapsychology, aided and abetted by Heinrich Mueller of Drexciya and Dopplereffekt. What's not to like?”
Rephlex's biggest crossover album for some time, this record will find favour as much amongst fans of the current crop of cold wave and nu-goths such as Zola Jesus etc, old goth chanteuses such as Nico, as well as Detroit Electro heads and fans of early Mute Records electronics.
Zwischenwelt explore the field of parapsychology with a dark and twisted vision of cold wave electronics. Parapsychology investigates paranormal psychic abilities using scientific methods, such as used in traditional psychology (observation, survey etc.) and quantitative empirical methodologies such as used in sociology, psychology and pedagogy. Parapsychological phenomenon are often also called Psi-Phenomenon. The two main fields of parapsychological research are Psychokinesis, the ability of the mind to influence objects without involvement of currently known physical energies and without physical contact between the acting subject and the reacting object (for example telekinesis and psychic healing) and Extrasensory Perception (ESP), the ability to acquire information by (psychic) sources currently unexplained by science (best known examples are clairvoyance, precognition and telepathy).
It is this field that the group Zwischenwelt (German for ‘in-between world’) look to discover. Combining the talents of former Drexciya member Heinrich Mueller, New York DJ/producer Susana Correia, Spanish producer Penelope Lopez and vocalist Beta Evers (who operates a number of German labels, including Kommando 6), Zwischenwelt’s ‘Paranormale Aktivitat’ was created largely through the passing of parts back and forth across the web.
The opening ‘Apparition’ starts with an ethereal, ghost-like feel that permeates this haunting electronic encounter whilst ‘Clairvoyant’ pairs a stripped down electro beat to distant echoes of melody in a half-remembered state. Tracks such as ‘Enigmata’ and ‘Telekinesis’ add a strange swing to the avant-garde approach whilst ‘Diapsiquia’ and ‘Materialization’ are eerie cinematic moodscapes that push the groups experimental reach. Finally the pulsating rhythm of ‘Telemetric’ is perhaps the most obvious electro-power surge for the dancefloor.
1. Apparition
2. Clairvoyant
3. Cryptic Dimension
4. Diapsiquia
5. Enigmata
6. Materialization
7. Multiple Existence
8. Premonition
9. Telemetric
10. Remote Viewer
11. Segunda Realidad
12. Telekinesis
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