Weltraumorgel - Communication
Weltraumorgel's Communication begins with a Speak 'n' Spell mission statement, a tiny transistorized voice which lays out the basic premise of their mission: maximize the flow of data from their creative center to the bits at the back of your knees in order to get your body moving. They seek "spontaneous dance movements" on the part of the receptive entities which participate in their experiment. Once an interface is created, "higher levels of communication" will become possible.
Weltraumorgel means "space organ." Get it? It's a pseudo-scientific experiment masquerading as a techno record. We are not the control group here. As we listen to Communication, our reactions and gyrates will be closely monitored. When you get down to the sci-fi disco lounge of "Moonshine Boogie," know that your kitschy "Robot with a Trunk O Junk" moves are being recorded and collected for scientific examination.
The two names on the scientific paper which will come out of this experiment will be Wollschläger, Olaf, DJ, and Gehle, Ralf, DJ. Both have studied at the intensive programs offered at the Aphex Twin Academy and The Institute of the 2 Lone Swordsmen where they received diplomas and the recommendation to go forth and study the effect of the beat on the brain and the butt.
Fax-heads -- devotees of Peter Namlook's FAX label -- would get a kick out of this record. Weltraumorgel comes at electronic music in a similiar fashion: craft beats with a definite techno bent, flood space music into the crevices, and make exploratory tracks like "Communication" which travel at the fringes of dance music like slightly intoxicated wallflowers hoping no one will see them dancing in the corner. The splendid "Elvis On The Phone" features a wild and lonesome guitar playing against a gentle beat structure which sounds like the hum and chime of finely tuned machinery cruising down the Autobahn well past midnight. There are echoes of Jeff Beck's guitar style against Roger Waters' opening track from Amused to Death as seen through the beat ambience of the Virtual Vice collaborations of Peter Namlook and Wolfram Spyra.
I don't really know who these guys are and the websites listed all over the liner notes don't really tell me much more. Is it a techno record or a science experiment? Is it a chill out ambient disc masquerading as a social experiment? Is it a coded transmission that is one half space music, one half a communication from a distant star, and one half an Nth-dimensional party record? Weltraumorgel's Communication is a strange little platter which is more than the clinical sum of its digital pits and peaks. This is one science experiment that is worth the five bucks and the electric shocks.
Weltraumorgel
Kaleidoskop [2003]
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