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  • Mosaik 2014

    ITA086

    Artist: Kreidler

    Label: Italic

    "Unique German synth-pop group Kreidler have provided one of the most interesting releases on the Italic label to date with their 'Mosaik 2014' album. The former vehicle for To Rococo Rot's Stefan Schneider has been in operation for 15 years now, traversing numerous styles in the evolution of their sound with a Krautrock-styled future vision guiding their way through disco deviations, house flirtations and electronic rock bases. 'Mosaik' starts with fluttering vintage synth tones and gentle but insistent percussion, making a tropically harmonic entrance while 'Zero' skims down to skittering drum machines and dubby cosmic vibes. 'Marauder' sets a fonky electronic strut before 'Brass Canon' takes an Italo influenced direction, continued in the sublime Moroder style Munich-disco futurism of 'European Grey'. 'Doom Boys' builds suspicious cinematic tension with groovy interplay and cold-synth atmopsheres merge with tribal drumming on 'Impressions d'Afrique'. An engrossing and entirely out-of-its-time album from an always intriguing fixture of the German leftfield." Boomkat, October 2009