Stereo Total - Paris-Berlin (CD) |

This is Punk, this is RocknRoll, this is modern Music! After Oh Ah, Monokini, Juke-Box-Alarm, My Melody, Musique Automatique, and Do The Bambi, now coming up is Stereo Totals new record: Paris-Berlin. Paris-Berlin is both - a RocknRoll- and a Chanson-Album. At the same time its more dynamic as well as more romantic than Stereo Totals previous productions. On the CD-cover you can see Brezel Gring and Franoise Cactus shown as naked lovers. The recordings sound very naturally and pretty rough. There are no superfluous sound effects, resulting in a production evoking intimacy und warmth.The songs are for the most part very melodic, the lyrics deal with topics like LOVE, REBELLION and NOSTALGIA. The way from the Primitive to the Complex to finally Simple Why the heck do Stereo Total not only write songs like Liebe zu dritt? Why dont they just sign a deal with a major record company (stuffing them in an appropriate box, doing the usual kind of marketing and promotion)? Why dont they play big stadiums and care about chart rankings? "We could do that, but... (what follows now is ear-deafening noise from the Prolog of Einstrzende Neubauten).Instead of all that they once more return to their roots, to Lo-Fi, 4-track recording, guitar " drums " and monophonic-synthesizer-minimalism, to their beloved "give a shit-attitude, humour, to subversion, to the specific Franoise-Cactus-definition of feminism and to pop music everyone and everywhere around the world understands immediately (stylistic and linguistic borders dont exist anymore) and knows, that this kind of music does NOT have anything to do (anything) with terms like maximization of profit(s), music industry, music television (MTV), mobile ringtones and exploitation.Like Horses on cheap drugs Stereo Total have constantly been on tour all around the world for the last six years: North and South America, Japan, Russia, Europe, China, Turkey. The new record represents the concerts in a good way: minimalist electro-chansons ri