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Extrawelt – Schöne Neue Extrawelt

1. One Tree Hill 7:40
2. Dark Side Of My Room 7:38
3. Wippsteert 7:46
4. Messy Machinery 7:23
5. Must Attack 6:27
6. Trummerfeld 7:03
7. Wolkenbruch 7:21
8. Added Planet 5:47
9. Kurt Curtain (Skit) 1:11
10. Daten Raten 6:30
11. Lost In Willaura 5:28
12. Homing 7:38

You have to be step-on-glass cautious in throwing the word “progressive” around in dance circles, but Extrawelt have a tendency to craft within the brainier elements of the term while slimming its bloat. With a background in trance as Midi Miliz and also Spirallianz, Extrawelt’s Arne Schauffhausen and Wayan Raabe are certainly not strangers to thick, blitzkrieg techno music. While Extrawelt’s past singles for labels like Border Community and Traum have seen the duo use the Extrawelt name for more refined tech-house creations, the duo’s never completely shed the dark-corridor depths of their past. A welcome balance of those strains, Extrawelt’s debut album, Schöne Neue Extrawelt, ain’t Sunday Breakfast fare, flirting with the psychedelic ends of the spectrum without ever resorting to the lobotomizing or cheap libido typically associated with “trance” techno.
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Tags: Electro, Minimal