Review of the SPEX from 10/2006

Mama, where is it techno? Anders Trentemøller, with darkly hypnotic productions such as "Physical Fraction" the rave Newcomer of the Year in 2005 and still no really bad release (well, the "Sodom ..." remix for Pet Shop Boys is a matter of taste), has for his first Album elected an outmoded approach: To hear there is not ten times boom-boom in perfection, but with limited value for the home listener, but a multi-faceted 77-minute headphone trip. "The Last Resort" says it exists yet, the good old author Techno. And we say in astonishment: But how gratifying differently, fresh or new it sounds! Usually author Techno says yes: A hip techno producer imagines the face of his first album, having to demonstrate versatility. Expectations and reality gape here sometimes differ widely. Quite different it sounds to the Danes. Likewise footed virtuosity he mixes diverse styles, yet still achieves a consistent, homogenous-sounding result. You do not know where to begin to praise: First of all, the sound is still incomprehensible than hoped for, I can not remember when last such a fine between electronic and traditional instruments (guitar, bass, glockenspiel, partly Drums) I balanced Production've heard. The quite abrupt twists that Trentemøller tracks always distinguished, enrich "The Last Resort", same here but already rather metamorphoses when pieces terminating at a different point, as they have begun, yet sound wonderful conclusive. The biggest surprise, however, is how well (and in the classical sense musically) the man can deal with moods as often mur generated images through the use of a particular sound in my head. The purely instrumental "The Last Resort" makes use of the medium of film music, but he put them not as a sleight to generate feelings one, but the real emotions of - express Nordic, melancholy and gloomy tuned early-thirties - well. Rarely has one heard so positively together on such a sophisticated album so many ideas, rarely like you can be so unconditionally fall in music. And also to those who then still like to fall a little harder (heck yes give), Trentemøller has thought and settled on the first edition of a strict Tecno bonus CD with almost all vinyl hits. So he gets everyone on the other hand, no one can on. To speak with a particularly undergroundigen Soulseek colleagues: "Trentemøller Might Be hyped out but this album is just great." (Spex 10.2006)