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Punk is raging in the German underground. Peaches, Fischer Spooner, Chicks on Speed, Alec Empire's DHR, Tobias Schmidt, ... the current list of artists indulging in rather primitive hard-and-fast-style punk electro is endless. The Mad Hatters from Mouse on Mars' newest is only on the surface related. It travels around in the same regions but opts quite rapidly for the unbeaten and barren badlands instead of taking the highway. They throw genuinely concrete Aphex-style clatterloops in the mixer with raw, angry and frequently distorted punkvocal bits on the hysterical titletrack 'Actionist Respoke'. The 10 minutes or so remix 'Actionist Extension' really opens up Pandora's Box: already uncontrolled noise seizures are pushed farther off the road and at last thouroughly destroyed by the pinball-machine-overload that recalls Aphex Twin's at times equally unlistenable JoyRex ep's on Rephlex. Anyway, it all ends in a generalised state of mayhem and amuk that is in fact more akin to 80ies industrialists like Spk, Psychic TV, Coil or Severed Heads than they possibly could be to any form of mainstream techno. Tempo and nerve-wrecking attacks are finally, although only partially, restrained when Matthew -six records a week, 'cause on Sunday I am tired- Herbert provides a steady, slightly dubby rhythmtrack for 'Dj Collapse', but even here the party is intentionally spoiled by dizzying imitations of the atavistic rave-hum, thereby gently injecting this baby with a certain amount of Schwung. If you're looking for Deconstruction with a big D, then this just might be your revolutionary soundtrack. No way you're gonna get this explained to your parents who had been humming along with Daft Punk's latest catchy single.
http://www.kindamuzik.net/recensie/mouse-on-mars/actionist-respoke-ep/734/
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