Recommended Music Download - Ellen Allien and Apparat

Thank God It’s Monday! This is a regular weekly post of music that got me through the week last week, so I’m hoping to spread the love. This week includes two albums that continue a previous review of Apparat: Ellen Allien’s Berlinette as well as Ellen Allien and Apparat’s full-length collaboration Orchestra of Bubbles. It’s German techno and IDM being friendly, folks! You can read some of my random thoughts below, and/or just stream some samples from anywhere.fm under the playlist TGIM: 9/24/07.

Ellen Allien - Berlinette

I’m finding myself quite without words for a lot of these album “reviews”, so again this will be short. Ellen Allien, creator of Bpitch Control label, is a leader in German techno. Apparently her songs/remixes are played often in clubs. Which clubs? German, probably. Kentucky? Probably not. She adds her vocals throughout. Quite surreal. Take a listen to Allen Sehen, Trash Scapes, and Abstract Pictures. Enjoy a live video of her performance below (mixing up the track Sehnsucht). Get it from: eMusic - Amazon

Ellen Allien and Apparat - Orchestra of Bubbles

Now we have the combination of IDM in Apparat with techno beats from Ellen Allien. This is a killer album, a near seamless mix of the two artists. Thoughtful sounds from Apparat are brought into the foreground with Allien’s beats. Take a listen to Metric, Rotary, and Jet, and enjoy the video of Way Out below. Get it from: eMusic - Amazon

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