AUTOAGGRESSION earned a lot of praise for several contributions to the renowned samplers of Septic before releasing Geräuschinformatik, and the tracks 3,14 and Blau already haunt the clubs for some time. Now there is a chance to enjoy AUTOAGGRESSION on a whole album and the question is, if the high expectations toward this album can be kept.
Against the above mentioned energetic tracks leading to uncontrollable twitches, which you can find on the album, Geräuschinformatik starts quite slow with II A Filter 3 and its ominous and menacing synthie arrangement much like Imminent Starvation, which are soon underlaid with a pushing beat and create a trance-like atmosphere. After 3,14 everything slows down with Aufwärtsrosten and Kubus, which spread a homely lounge mood with complex, slow rhythm and recitatives and chilly sound arrangement. Reflector turns again to tougher tones. This song is one of the absolute highlights of Geräuschinformatik with its tough, dry noise and empathic vocals and will even make people move, who do not like to dance. Tempel 3 has a tendency to rhythm-and-noise and from folly breaks of Das Nyquist Theorem the musical journey nearly comes to jazzy electronica in Balken und Schwarz-Weiß-Kontraste, when Blau as last but one track starts an attack on the dance floor again.
As it is easy to see, Geräuschinformatik offers many facets of electronic music, which has to be fathomed first, as Geräuschinformatik needs some warm-up time for the “Intellectual Industrial” as it is called by the band. The reward is the high musical standard of the Dependent-Newcomers from the Ruhr Area in North Rhine-Westphalia, where more can be expected in the future. My CD player won’t let go of this album right now…..