Tromatic Reflexxions, by Von Sudenfed (Double LP on Domino)

A Norman Records recommendation (17th May 2007)

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Format:	Double LP
Label:	Domino
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Rating: ecstatic This record left joel damian feeling ecstatic.

mark e and the mouse on mars boyz bust some of the most consistently fantastic music that the fall has ever made.A must-buy for all fall fans past and present.

Review date: 22 August 2007

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Rating: ecstatic This record left our Mingus feeling ecstatic.

Von Sudenfed: "Tromatic Reflexxions" (Domino), if you didn't know already is the irrepressible Mark E. Smith and Mouse On Mars. By turns MC, singer, rapper and raconteur over crunching disco beats, industrial style 2-step garage, sub grime, dubstep and all manner of electronic trickery from the ever inventive kraut mice. On first listen it sounds like the marriage nobody could have dreampt up, by turns hypnotically danceable with enough to keep the brain ticking over too.Then hints of more traditional soundng instrumentaion (sampled no doubt?!) come floating in towards the close of the set.Yeah you guessed it, enjoyable to decipher both lyrically, wth Mark E. Smithdropping into German between the infamous Manc drawl, purrs, slurs, yelps & croons, whilst the mice tinker away feverishly at the hardware summoning up the past couple of decades underground dance fads and then some...Strange but true but, Mark E. Smith could easily have the mice as has bonafide new, new band.This is a genuine collaboration, not just his vocals tacked onto Mouse On Mars's beats and pieces. Listening to this had us both laughing and fumbling over MESs' famous wordplay especially his references to Sven Vath on "Flooded" - which we reckon should be the next single- and his croon about the current vogue for singer songwriters on "That Sound Wiped". I reckon this'll keep us all entertained for a while.

What the label says:

‘Tromatic Reflexxions’ is the debut album by Von Sudenfed, the trio formed by Andi Thoma & Jan St Werner from Mouse On Mars & The Fall’s legendary frontman Mark E Smith. This album combines the genre-smashing attack of early-millennia club music with Mark E smith’s free-associating visionary wordplay.·On ‘Flooded’, the stuttering, garage-inflected beats and the sub-bass that comes warping out of them fit Mark’s furious / triumphant vocal like they grew up together. It’s typical of the way ‘Tromatic Reflexxions’ sounds like the work of a group – unlike the results of all too many producer-singer collaborations, where the vocals sound like phoned-in afterthoughts to fill a voice shaped blank. But as ‘Tromatic Reflexxions’ unfolds, the word ‘group’ becomes inadequate. This isn’t a standard set-up with Musician A on Instrument A and Musician B on Instrument B. The riffs and rhythms come together from so many different places, with synths, samplers and sequencers all firing off. It’s not a band; it’s a free-flowing collectivist dance generator – a futurist sound system.

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