Fiction

Fictional | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 8, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Metropolis Records
• ASIN: B00009W8M6
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #122,661 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent work of Gerrit Thomas and his new singer, July 11, 2003

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kyle petillo (Wall, nj United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fiction (Audio CD)

This album definitely holds true to the originality and quality of Fictional, as debuted in Fictitious. The new singer is very apt for this type of music and does a wonderful job throughout the CD. I miss hearing Gerrit on a few and what happened to Tim Fockenbrock? Ever since the deleted 'Frozen Tears', he disappeared without a trace from the entire industry.

-Kyle

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars New Skies to Fly, August 13, 2003

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TastyBabySyndrome "Matthew Lewis, author of M... ("Daddy Dagon's Daycare" - Proud Sponsor of the Little Tendril Baseball Team, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fiction (Audio CD)

Funker Vogt has been a mainstay in the EBM arena, going through many a revolution in the evoultion of "becoming," and that has happened with good reason. Anything Funker Vogt members touch is well worth receiving. Focusing on their albums alone, one would have a wide variety of anthems and stages - heavy to EBM light - to choose from. And the side projects, they birth even more proof. From Ravenous to Ficitonal, all the wonders of the world are covered and stray from the positioning of the normally anti-war Vogt voice. They also experiment with audible "light and sound," creating different types of sonic backdrops than the more aggressive main act does, and they do so with beautiful results.

This Fictional release is, in many ways, more evolved than the last one to see the light of day. This isn't to say that the last was bad, mind you, because it wasn't that at all. It was simply a more rudimentary form of beats and a more interlockingly predictable pattern. Here, however, is something different and, in many ways, something odd to hear from the contributors.
Previously, the styles used to sing were more distorted and something of a middleman between Funker Vogt and "normal," but this album isn't like that. Instead, it comprises the use of an ability no longer concealed under the same types of distortion all the time, and some of the distortion that does show up is - different. More robotic sounds are used, real voices are thrown in, and melodies are molded.

Added to that are some odd electronic melodies, most weird combinations that stray further into electronics and less into predictable BPM ballads, and you have yourself something that is impressive.

For anyone who liked the last release, this should be a sure bet UNLESS you are opposed to a shift in speed and in the singing style. It is actually one of the better releases I've heard in a while, having surpassed the cruelty of my needy standards.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I found this to be better than the first CD, October 29, 2003

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S. Benson "Neve2004" (Planet Earth) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fiction (Audio CD)

I really enjoyed Fiction and liked it better than the first release, granted it doesn't have a huge stand out song like "Blue Lights" but from start to finish I felt it was a better release.

As a DJ I find myself playing the following tracks:
The Sound Of The Falling Rain
The Weatherman
Dorian Gray
Private Nightmare
Perfect Stranger
Mariner (My personal favorite and its a instrumental!)

As a music fan and a DJ I highly recommend picking up this disc, I would also recommend grabbing their first release just for "Blue Lights" alone.