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Artist:	LEICHTMETALL
Title:	Wir Sind Bumen Remixes
Label:	KALK PETS (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	KALKPETS 007EP

"One season after Leichtmetall released their album Wir Sind Blumen on Karaoke Kalk in summer 2006, here follows its complying tool. Grinser tinkers about with an excellent mix feat. a wonderful squeeze-backing by Max Loderbauer who in the past has made quite a splash on Cadenza as one half of N.S.I. A blissfully playful track with a furious break. Dennis Busch aka James Din A 4 is responsible for the other tracks: 'Unkerich RMX' is a real groover with a smashing wind section whereas the 'Rumpelritter' (rumbling knight) mix lives up to its name, getting giddy included. Reminds a little bit of the very early Profan releases. Gorgeous!"

Artist:	LEICHTMETALL
Title:	Wir Sind Blumen
Label:	KARAOKE KALK (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	KK 036CD

This is the second full-length release on Karaoke Kalk for Munich-based Marion Dimbath and Nicola Schüpferling. Wir Sind Blumen is evocative of carefree springtime, easy weather, and stepping outside for a breath of fresh air on a slightly rainy day after a particularly cruel winter. The title translates to "we are flowers," and the title track was a perfect inclusion on the Kalk Seeds compilation -- a German pop song resplendent with a samba beat, tuba and French horn. And yet, if you dip a little deeper into the record there's more to it than just a sunshiney association. For one there's this remarkable openness that Leichtmetall demonstrate with their music and their way of dealing with everyday occurrences. Although filled to the brim with olde style, charming female vocals, chimes and music boxes, this record avoids coyness or naivete. Leichtmetall achieve a precious wholeness with few words and very basic imagery. Their musical appliances are reduced, almost sparse, but very classic. And above all they are unpretentious. Maybe even "dilettantish."

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