![]() But seriously now, that should be strictly a matter of personal preferences, and like stated before, since I was never a die hard fan, this album lacks the edge and punch I found on their albums recorded as The Primitive Painter and especially Acid Jesus. It follows the same formula, with minor deviations, and if you are a listener who usually aims more for the harder sounds of the techno spectrum, like I am, then "Alter ego" might eventually start to bore you. ![]() The rest of the album, while unquestionably good, doesn't really speak to me. And it reminds me of those beloved ambient pieces you could keep on repeat for two hours in a row and feel like you were listening to one symphony! Really atmospheric, with lush pads and a really celestial, heavenly touch to it. That said, it might then seem strange that my favorite track on the album is a 100% beatless ambient tune, the closing number, Undersea Girl. Think some of the more laid back tunes on Sven Vath's sophmore album. Alter Ego have a way of producing really dreamy and placating music, which doesn't follow any conventional ambient formulas (long beatless patterns, passages of drone, etc.), but rather uses structural patterns and ideas applied through a lot of releases on Harthouse and Eye-Q at the time, though they slow the speed down for a few notches. It is all downtempo stuff, with floating and captivating melodies, absorbing and subtle snippets of acid synths, while the tempo of the beats never really reaches the heights necessary to attack dance floors. ![]() ![]() While I have never been that much of a loyal fan of this duo, credit must be do when listening to this album. Four albums under four different monikers in an approximately two year time span seems like a larger bite than one could handle, but surprisingly, none of the albums I've mentioned suffer in the quality department, "Alter ego" included. At the time of releasing their debut album as Alter Ego, Jörn Elling Wuttke and Roman Flügel have already released the remarkable Acid Jesus album, were about to come out with The Primitive Painter album and were in the process of recording and releasing the landmark "Welcome insel" record as Sensorama. ![]()
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