Frohmader/Fuchs-Gambock - Das Ist Alles

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Dark, oppressive, heavy, moody music from the maestro of German synthesizer. In an experimental rock context, Peter Frohmader makes a claim by his discography to be one of the most consistently uncomprising and original musicians around today. In this album, you'll encounter a range of moods, which share a dark and unique intensity. Michael Fuchs-Gambock is the other partner in this very successful collaboration, in which Frohmader's music is is fitted around verbal concepts from F-G - another winner from Munich. Beat driven and with a sound that's huge in scale, this is classic German synth music.

review from Dead Earnest website - "Now this album really smokes, steams and sizzles. The majority of the tracks are rhythmic, the average track time is around eight minutes, and the music is just sensational from start to finish. Using synthesizers, electronics, bass, sequenced electronic rhythms, sampled drums and guitars, you have the sound of Krautrock-meets-techno in three of the main tracks and the effect is awesome as these huge, crunching, driving rhythms propel a huge soundscape of electronic-based Krautrock to infinity. So many layers and textures from scorching electric guitar work through swirling space synths to bubbling trance-like synths and so much more, the towering rhythm layers dominating. Two of the tracks have amore Moroccan or Oriental feel to the rhythms which are decelerated from what has come before, but in the context of the album as a whole, work an absolute treat. Some of the synth work is almost "Krautrock-trance", particularly evident on the seven minute 'Nachts' while the album as a whole is one of those that you play, enjoy and want to play again - loads of times. For me, one of the finest albums of his career, and so thoroughly addictive as to be almost dangerous. Stunning stuff."