Marco Haas, founder of Shitkatapult, releases his most accessible album to date, though this album is still bizarre in its own right. Full of punk rock riffs pounding over buzzing electro beats, this album pushes the boundaries of an already wide-open genre, electroclash (Shitkatapult has pioneered a subgenre that has been called, for lack of a better term, “electrotrash”). Heavy hitting techno and electro tracks laced with the sounds of metal and concrete are interspersed with kooky ambient pieces. What I think of when I listen to this album is a world of robo-zombies on wheels, scavenging an electronically ravished landscape.
“Monstertruckdriver” would rock any floor, with its rolling thunder bass beat, as would “The Game Is Not Over”, which features the electrodiva Miss Kittin in all of her crude splendor. “I’m not deaf, I’m ignoring you” and “Rebaukendisko” both have free-jazzed Zorn-like solos from an electronically modulated alto sax. “A Million Brothers (blahblahblah)” features a rapping and trip-hopped MC Soom T (don’t ask me who she is), who Tricky should consider inviting to his next album. “Wir kinder vom banhof strom” stands out as the most accessible track, and certainly rolls along with the kind of housey persistence that would yield great mixes.
Definitely an album worth picking up for the road.
