The monstertruckdriver is back! Taking his name from a Philip K Dick invention (traumschmiere is German for ‘the dream room’), for his second album German label boss (Shitkatapult) and ex-punk rocker Marco Haas flexes his techno production muscles, while quenching a thirst for more metallic flavours, alongside that stomping 6/8 timed ‘shufflebeat’ which sounds like glam-rock, warm washes of ambient beauty and pop songs that soar like giant eagles. Raumschmiere grabs you rudely by the guts with his own voice, as well as enlisting some immaculately-tonsilled ladies, including Teutonic electro princess Ellen Allien (Bpitch Control), to finish the job off. And, with the current success of British electro-glam misstress Goldfrapp, all this bodes very well indeed. But, more importantly, it also sounds fantastically fresh.

The Dalek

Published by The List, September 2005 and reproduced with their kind permission.