Von Südenfed
20 April 2007 :: posted by BIGSTEREO
another great post from guest writer Patric Fallon:
Music fans love a good collaboration, don’t we? For a while it was all about mash-ups and now we just remix any raw audio we can get our hands on. Vocalists are “feat.”-ed on every producer’s track or vocalists just hire a million different producers to create their songs for them. Whether you hate it or love it such exchanges can move past their contrived beginnings into bigger, even better things. Thankfully, when Mouse on Mars remixed their song “Wipe That Sound” for a 12-inch and featured The Fall’s Mark E. Smith on one of his trademark rants, the idea stuck. We present you with Von Südenfed, your favorite colab-turned-band since Jimmy Tamborello (DNTEL) and Ben Gibbard mailed music back and forth to each other. You may have heard the first single for Von Südenfed’s debut album Tromatic Reflexxions, “Fledermaus Can’t Get It”. You may have even seen the wonderful video, but I thought I’d share something else from what has become my favorite album of 2007 thus far. Each track is just as hard hitting and individually mind blowing as the next. Producers Andi Toma and Jan St. Werner always keep you guessing from anarchist revenge, club banger “Flooded” to the paranoid, disco rant that started it all, “That Sound Wiped”. The “great M.E.S” is in top form too. Rarely in so few words and with such ease has someone been able to tell intricate stories while simultaneously remaining an essential part of the music. Never would I have dreamed up such a perfect combination as these three gentlemen, and now I have fate to thank for it. Enjoy.
Von Südenfed- “Flooded” (mp3)
