Von Südenfed

Von Südenfed - Tromatic Reflexxions

With the Fall’s Mark E. Smith incomprehensible talking bark over wild electronic menageries created by Mouse On Mar’s Andi Toma and Jan St. Werner, this side-project may become your atypical dance anthem for the summer. Equally filled with tracks that could easily swell the dance floors at clubs, as well as part them, Von Südenfed is as dynamic in its compositional range as it is jarring to clubbers seeking redundant four-to-the-floor house rhythmic fodder. The album opens impressively with “Fledermaus Can’t Get Enough” that flashes the ID of LCD Soundsystem to get past the velvet ropes, and then follows up two songs later with the UK two-step sound of “Flooded” as Mark E. Smith peppers the track with his atonal delivery of “being the DJ.” Not until the end do they leave the Teutonic techno sound for African influence: “Chicken Yiamas” outfits a Mali blues acoustic guitar with glitchy back beats and “Dearest Friend” will have you thirsting for palm-wine its straightforward Afro-pop a la King Sunny Ade.