Funny minimalism

Gabi Delgado Lopez - a living legend of German Underground Music - pioneer of EBM and voice of DAF has released his first solo album after 30 years. Well, so it's kind of all for me no solo debut because of the style of his solo reminds all parts to be DAF / DOS Project, which he founded to DAF. Unforgotten especially the first DAF / DOS album "alone, in pairs with phone" which he has with the actor Wotan Wilke Mohring-(!) Once received.

"1" is somehow the continuation of the two DAF / DOS albums "alone, in pairs with phone" and "The DAF / DOS state" because a big difference to these two albums and the project is first of all not to identify. Delgado indulges here the minimum EBM sound, mixed with a pinch of House and Old School Techno bonds. If a familiar, it is. Songs such as "fog machine (which has now been established to a small hit in the club scene), Sexkamikaze, Strassenloop" are quite Knorke and fun. Unmistakably course the voice Delgado's combined as DAF / DOS with the rudimentary texts.
The only difference is that everything does not comes here with the demented hillbilly debility of DAF / DOS and then in some moments even more reminiscent of DAF, even if you here have to say clearly that "1" can not be compared with the works of DAF in this form is. Nevertheless comes on songs like "Peace to the People War on the palaces" and "boredom" definitely this DAF smell to it so loves DAF and likes.

Then why only three stars? As far as work "1" and fun. And it is also commendable that one day served even an album with 20 tracks draufbekommt (actually only 18 songs, because the two really dispensable remixes of icebreakers and In Strict Confidence of Songs "Nebenlmaschine" and "lipstick" you can confidently save) , But therein lies a bit of a problem, because it is in the long term but very monotonous and ultimately droning all then here places to himself. Nevertheless, the bottom line remains a charming solo album of DAF which legend can really convince in its best moments and proves why this man is such a legend.

As a final note: Delgado convinced with his solo album much more than EBM Opa recently as Die Krupps with her but very predictable comeback album, because here has much more eviction and coolness.