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Artists: Various
Title: Nachtaktiv Gothisch zusammengewürfelte Soundfiles 1
Gender: Electro / Gothic / Alternative
Release Date: 27th August 2010
Label: Echozone



Album Review

Regarding compilations I’ve been sitting on a fence, mostly swaying to the opinion that their concept often doesn’t match up, the bad songs drown out the best ones in them so you only end up playing one or two songs and the others slip into a background noise that you ignore till you forget you even have it. Echozone produced this in collaboration with Nachtaktiv (German Magazine covering sub-culture) and the first CD has made me realise how hard it is to make a great compilation, this one was a failure.

It starts with ANGELZOOM’s cover of DEPECHE MODE’s track from ‘Music for the Masses’ LP, ‘The Things You Said’. It lacks Martin Gore’s emotive interpretation, which has shown that if your friends bitch about you, you don’t need vitriol to answer it but dignified sensitivity and quiet strength are enough. This song feels as a vocal exercise – “isn’t my voice pretty in this song?” - forget connecting the listener to it. The music of the mix is not so bad so it’s really a letdown vocally. Strange thing is that given it’s such an anaemic version it’s one of the best song here. Another worth mentioning is LAIBACH-esque [DE:AD:CIBEL]’s ‘Jerusalem Syndrom’. The rest of the songs create a homogenous mass of sound that soon has you ‘out’ of listening attention and only occasionally gets you pulled back in, one has to check if the repeat mode was put on by mistake. The makers of this collection fail to catch the pulse, although many are club-to-be-plays, I’d play them at the beginning when the energy is quite not in and end when it’s fizzling out. The only result is that I want to listen to DM and LAIBACH again.

With CD B you’d rush to IN STRICT CONFIDENCE (‘Set Me Free’), but their song is a throw-away, surprisingly unremarkable. It’s LEICHENWETTER (‘O Schweig’) that give the compilation its fire. Another highlight is IN PUBLIC feat ROCK SCHMITT with ‘Dance Into Death’ - the parts sung in English and German slip into each other wonderfully, and so it is with vocals and the different styles this incorporates - i.e. Celtic neo-folk, even rapping is distilled into it with symphonic and rock components, a belter, a ballad - altogether a remarkably handled mixture of everything. In general, the B part of the collection is filled with enjoyable and even some notable songs with their fusion of Metal, Electro and Punk-rock. There’s more energy, diversity, the pacing works better and elevates the sluggish CD A. Although CD B enlivens and betters the collection, it’s not enough; a give-it-a-miss is the verdict here.


Tracklist

CD1
01. Angelzoom – The Things You Said (Clubremix) (4.53)
02. MOON.74 – Dirty Mind (4.09)
03. Das blutende Kind – Will dream again (4.38)
04. Minerve – Phoenix (4.22)
05. reADJUST – My Advice (5.28)
06. Decoded Feedback – Decompress (4.50)
07. Genetic Disorder – Generation X (5.42)
08. [DE:AD:CIBEL] – Jerusalem Syndrom (4.29)
09. Enter And Fall – Running Out (Club Edit) (5.17)
10. Versus – We Are Cloned (5.19)
11. X Marks the Pedwalk – Facer (short cut) (3.44)
12. Suicidal Romance – Make Me Blind (4.57)
13. Dead Bloody Baby – C.A.B.A.I. (3.38)
14. The Dark Unspoken – Abandon Thrill (3.46)
15. dAVOS – Rain (Is Falling On My Head) (3.20)
16. Rebentisch – Das Medikament (Als Godzilla Japan Ass – Rmx) (4.01)
17. goJA moon ROCKAH – Geraldine (Single Edit) (3.59)
18. Distance – Sounds of Distance (2.14)

CD2
01. The Mist Of Avalon – Said It All (5.12)
02. Indica – Islands Of Light (3.03)
03. Cultus Ferox – Ahoii (4.55)
04. DIE! – Durch den Wind (3.14)
05. In Strict Confidence – Set Me Free (4.31)
06. Denight – Human Reflections (5.16)
07. Hellfire Society – Run Rabbit Run (2.29)
08. Tunes Of Dawn – Little Darkness (5.39)
09. Sharon Next – Outdoor Sex (5.16)
10. Mystigma – Irony Of Fate (4.03)
11. Leichenwetter – O Schweig (3.19)
12. Resomus – Das Labyrinth (4.00)
13. In Viro – Kuess Mich (3.47)
14. Shearer – Monument (3.15)
15. Downstairs Left – Why (3.17)
16. In Public feat Rock Schmitt – Dance Into Death (5.02)
17. Born For Bliss – All Away (Remix) (3.39)
18. Traumtaenzer – Fremdes Land (4.54)
19. Bluthorn – Die Schwarze Pest (3.28)


Websites

http://www.myspace.com/echozonelabel


Cover Picture




Rating

CD A
Music: 5
Sound: 5
Total: 5 / 10

CD B
Music: 7
Sound: 8
Total: 7.5 / 10


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