Customer Reviews

Remix Wars Strike V.2

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GAH! Bought this one when it came out in 1996, as I buy every album with FLA on. Well, this is the worst of all my FLA album. Why, Die Krupps has made a mess of all of the FLA songs. Literally killed all that is FLA and warped it into something gruesome and horrible. I have never been able to listen through these songs. Yes they are that bad! The FLA mixes of Die Krupps are quite ok, therefore the 2 stars. Most stuff FLA mixes becomes great, but this time they must have been in a hurry. Oh Well. Spend your money on another CD. Why not Implode, if you do not have it :-)

For the most part, both the FLA and Die Krupps remixes are brilliant. Their styles pull a yin-yang with each other, causing the remixes to be more powerful than the originals.

While FLA stayed faithful to the original Die Krupps song structures, Die Krupps did all-out covers of the FLA songs while retaining original vocals.

Last Flood and Scent are made a bit clunkier by FLA with the addition of cleaner drums. As a result they are slightly more dance-friendly than the original and benefit from added synths and effects, though some of these effects could be construed as corny.

Metalmorphosis also closely resembles the original but with FLA's bells and whistles. Overall, it works out for the better especially when a squealing, wavering saw pad chaotically bounces around for the choruses.

Barcode is simplified but becomes more dance-friendly with its increased tempo and retains its power; the chorus is played almost like a breakdown, introducing a much-welcome change from the original Barcode's otherwise monotonous pace.

Neologic Spasm is of the same vein as the Barcode remix: Much faster, totally new synths, same vocals but much less processed. The chorus introduces a guitar groove and the song overall is given a fast, blurry, chaotic feel.

Transparent Species: ugh....

If you were to take some sharp keys or a marker and make track 6 unplayable, you would have one of the best industrial music compilations in existence.

To the musically-inclined: Die Krupps took Transparent Species (a song with a phrase-length of 8 beats) and overlaid the vocals onto a groove which is 7 beats long. It's a recipe for disaster and Transparent Species was no exception. Because of this the song falls apart the moment the vocals start. There is little change in the song for the chorus or bridge, it's just the same mess for two minutes and fifty-one seconds and you're left thinking "is this really bad or just over my head?" No, you're not that stupid.

This was my first industrial band I have ever had. All it took was a few fans of mainstream music like Pitch shifter, Filter, Garbage, No D ought, Our-lady Piece, I Mother earth, Age of Electra, Merlin-Manson, NIN, Korn and Varucasalt. To convince me that My music sucks and that I know nothing about industrial music. Because of those types of fans I stupidly traded Strike Wars 2 in for money. For 17 years, I have never heard or owned anything but Korn and NIN. Intel I discovered Amazon.com. Now finally, I can catch up on old times with the music I really like. Music that I call Futuristic music, the same that I called it then.

As a Fan of DarkWave music, I found this gem for $ at the KUZ in Germany sitting with Remix 1,3&4 and bought them all. Each track does both justice to the original band and the general listner by showing how it could sound if reshaped by a turntablist (DJ), as a DJ I always enjoy finding a new spin on any song to be able to re-introduce a great song to those who might have missed the original. Purists might disagree but an updated version made me dig deeper into the used bins to track down the original hit to compare.
Highly recommend!

I, like so many others, feel it necessary to own everything FLA has ever put out. So, on that note, I had picked this up as soon as I notice the Front Line Assembly on the front. But, it's a bit of a mixed bag. First off, the FLA remixes of the Die Krupps songs are really cool. They take the already meaty songs of Die Krupps and put a bit of an FLA spin on them; making them even more appealling. I'm always interested to see what Bill will do with guitar sampling, and he really turns a few knobs to 11! Then you listen to the Die Krupps remixes of FLA songs from Hard Wired. They are not bad, but in essence, not really FLA either. I think that they have added some guitar to Neologic Spasm and re-recorded the vocals. It doesn't sound anything like the original, which is kind of the point of a remix, right? But basically on these three songs, Die Krupps have stripped away all of the wonderful layers of sound leaving only drum, bass, guitar, vocals and a few electronics. I still like it in its own right, but it's not at all representative of FLA. I would say that it's sacrilege to FLA, but obviously for this to be released, Bill would have had to sign off on it, and if it's good enough for Bill, it's good enough for me.

It's tragic... this cd is not avaliable anymore. It is the best Volume of the project Remix Wars, the first is much low, the third is good but not like this ... all toutched by FLA turn gold ...