FUNKER VOGT - Execution Tracks
Songs: 13  Time: 72:20
Tragic Hero is the latest single from one of Germany’s top club bands, Funker Vogt.  Unlike most CD singles, Tragic Hero clocks in at over 40 minutes, making it a mini album in itself.  Aside from the 4 mixes of the title track, Funker Vogt also included two versions of a new piece (Spread Your Legs) as well as one mix each of International Killer and The Voices of the Dead.  Some of the bands contributing mixes include Evils Toy, Covenant, and Apoptygma Berzerk.  The Haat Klapp Mix, reworked by FV themselves, is relatively close to the original, but seems to be a bit more beefy in the rhythm sections.  The APB/RMX of the track (remixed by Apoptygma Berzerk) is the weakest of the mixes.  APB took this hard and heavy track and transformed it into a lighter version, injecting some analogue sounding techno noises into it.  On Blind Vision’s version Volker Lutz’s backing vocals get a chance to stand more prominently atop the vibrating rhythms, pounding beats, and bombastic sequencing.  The apparent mixing techniques of Covenant can easily be heard on their mix, which revolves around a constant, rolling rhythm.  The Evils Toy remix of The Voices of the Dead is quite good in that Volker and company give this track some of their standard, spacey synth work.  Spread Your Legs is along the same lines at Shaven (off of Execution Tracks) in that it is a harsh tongue-in-cheek song about sex.  Altogether Tragic Hero is a exceptional MCD, especially when you factor in the varied mixes, the extra tracks, and the overall length of the disc.

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Norsk-Data-Str. 3                      Kai Schmidt / Rote X / Jens Kaestel w/ Tim Fockenbrock
61352 Bad Homburg
Germany
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