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Cabaret

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The godfathers of dark electronic music have done it again. Just two years following Das Ich's successful album Lava, the duo of Stefan Ackermann and Bruno Kramm present their follow-up which has no comparisons. The remarkable dark Cabaret delivers naughty sound escapades in multiple cynical interpretations of a basic theme centered around the costumes for marionette theatre. For the album, Kramm's usual electronic chamber orchestra was accompanied by a large variety of vital sounding acoustic collages. This deviates from the usual electronic blend of Das Ich by producing songs which allude to a twilight somewhere between claustrophobic reality and unchained phantasmic atmosphere. Ackermann's vocals range between incantations and distorted madness to draw the listener through their visit to the nightmare theatre, giving them a joyride through their darkest emotions. Next to hymnic song jewels like "Atemlos," "Paradigma" and the radical minimalistic dance floorer crusher "Opferzeit" the album also ventures into experimental sound collages with songs like "Fluch," lead by guest vocalist Marianne Iser's erotic opera-like vocals. It excites and terrifies as the album reaches its climax with the title track "Cabaret." Point blank Das Ich pose the questions "What is imagination and what's destiny? Where does reality end and where does madness begin?"

The new opus of the living legends of gothic is an interesting album, which combines the early dark influences of the band together with the more progressive approach they featured on the previous "Lava/Glut"-cd. After the some more folk influenced debut song DI renew with their dark bombastic musical content perfumed with a real dramatic character. The complexity of the writing remains once more an essential item of their work while the global production features some outstanding effects and electronic wealth. Bruno Kramm already shows off an amazing range of ideas and influences. The some more electro-minded "Opferzeit" might sound in contract with the neo-classical influences of the "Cabaret"-song or the gothic soundtrack like "Zuckerbrot und Peitsche", but it simply features the open-minded aspiration of this album. In a more traditional style "Cabaret" delivers some more great songs like "Paradigma" and "Macht". The "Nahe"-track features an interesting duo in the vocals. The female guest vocalist adds a captivating and classically trained touch although this isn't my favorite song! This is another impressive production coming from the hands of the German gothic pioneers!

I was a bit sceptical about this album at first, seeing as i didn't like Lava all that much. But Cabaret is buildt around a theme Das ich seems right at home with. Definatly one of Das ich's great ones. I don't see any fans of Kramm and Ackerman getting dissapointed at this.

Basicly this is cabaret-industrial music from Germany. Das Ich are definitly Goth types...they use electronic instruments and are alltogether pretty creepy. This is one of those albums that fans either love or hate. I don't think it's five star qaulity...but it's pretty darn close. The artwork and sound effects are both awesome...and there are at least three songs on this album that will ring your bell. Crazy music....great for Halloween parties. >:)

unbelievable. goofy vocals, goofier synths and retarded song writing are the mark of this beast which from reading reviews i was somehow expecting something a little more... good? like old front 242 or wumpscut... just GOOD dark electronic music, this was a bad joke and as much as i wanted to laugh i just couldn't. i am very open minded but this is for only the most geeky tasteless german electro nerds. maybe the old das ich is better but that's a little hard to imagine honestly