Bionaut - Lubricate Your Living Room
Lubricate Your Living-Room will grease your walls with the warm, buttery sound of lush electronica. A collection of tracks from releases ranging back to 1993, Lubricate Your Living-Room is a summation of JÖrg Burger's work under his The Bionaut moniker. Well-known for his groundbreaking work in the Cologne minimal techno scene, Burger has released material under a number of names, rivaling Mike Ink for the most convoluted discography to come out Cologne. Matador has made life a little easier for us by putting together a solid collection of tracks from six releases that quite enthusiastically sum up The Bionaut's sound.
Beginning with the burlesque Henry Miller-style campfire tale of "Electric Campfire (In a Neo-Ackerman Style)," the disc undulates through an hour of blissful melodic electronic music. Like all minimalists coming out of Cologne, Burger's music is equal parts sparse beats, playful melodies, and warm analog environments. Much more a rhythmic beast associated with the techno beat than the glitch structures of Intelligent Dance Music, Burger's songs dance and flit with a easy rhythm. The "Theme from 'Please Teenage'" is very reminiscent of the Burger/Ink record that Matador re-issued a few years ago and "Der Kurze Weg" has a somber, yet beautiful, quality to its multiple melodies that intertwine over the constant beats. Lubricate Your Living-Room is a great soundtrack to taking a train ride in the early summer sun, which, actually, is exactly what I've been doing with it these last few days. The ride gets shorter and shorter and I'm arriving more and more refreshed -- well-lubed, even.
The Bionaut
Matador Records [2001]
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