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So, then. Once again I am venturing forth into a field I know nothing about! Once again I am going to use the word electro, but this time I mean it.
Once again I am going to suggest you download the following songs, and then we talk about them, please. (I know you downloaded those Pendulum songs, I know with my mindreading powers [and my server logs])
I am asking because I would like to know more about the genre, whatever it is, which this music is in. And I would like to know where to get more of it.
Also, I think it's pretty cool, so I am sharing it.
So, here is some things I have learned about Ellen Allien:
Ellen Allien is from Germany, specifically Berlin, which means that her last name is pronounced something like "Alleen", not "alien". It might be cooler the other way, and maybe she does, but that's not the German!
She started a couple of labels, but is now heading Bpitch Control. Which is the label which is releasing her current album. I don't know anything about Apparat. At all.
Ellen is modern in her approach to file sharing, but is also annoyed at journalists who post preview copies online, because her hard work is not so rewarded this way. edit: no, as flyboy noted, this is, in fact, apparat's blog, and thus his opinion.
So I feel a little bad about posting these mp3s, but I figure if five of you listen to them, one of you will buy the album, which is more than otherwise. So it's probably ok.
The first song I'm posting is Leave Me Alone which I really, really love. Really love. Something about the way the vocals are expressed and depressed, and the music is kind of cheerful and gleeful, I can't really explain it. But you might be able to, give it a shot.
The next song is called Do Not Break, about which I am slightly less enthusiastic, but is probably a better representation of the album as a whole. I also really like it, but not quite so much. It kind of bops along, and it's really well produced. It sounds kind of like what robots would make, if they were unleashed on turntables stacked with instrumentals of all the hip-hop of the eighties, played through some kind of crazy synth. I'm not sure, really, how apt that is, but it's the first thing that came into my head.
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