Brandt Brauer Frick have done it again. Last year, the German trio's debut album, 'YouMake Me Real', successfully fused techno and classical music. The two forms are sodifferent - regimented rhythms and laptop production on the one hand, complex musicaltheory and virtuosity on the other - you'd be forgiven for thinking a true hybrid wasimpossible. But tracks such as 'Bop', a gently building pulse of shuffling polyrhythms,rich, resonant pianos and warm synth bass, saw them pull it off in some considerablestyle. 'You Make Me Real' may have been built from classical sounds, but the resultdidn't sound out of place in a minimal techno set.Now Daniel Brandt, Jan Brauer and Paul Frick have taken their genre-defying experimentto the next level with the Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble. Think of it as BBF V2.0.They've ditched the computers they used to arrange 'You Make Me Real' and expandedthe band to a ten-piece so they can play handcrafted dance grooves completelylive. Earlier this year at the Eurosonic conference in Holland, they recreated 'You Make Me Real' on stage using 80 pages of sheet music per track. The result was weird,compelling and unlike anything else.Dates across Europe followed. An appearance at Coachella in April kicked off a festivalseason that includes ensemble shows at Glastonbury, Sonar, North Sea Jazz, HaldernPop and Bestival. There's also a new album, recorded using the same handmadeapproach. 'Mr Machine' sees the group reinterpret five tracks from 'You Make Me Real'-- Mi Corazon, Bop, You Make Me Real,Caffeine and Teufelsleiter. There are also two cover versions -- 'Pretend' by Emika and 'A 606 N Rock N Roll' by James Braun --although they're so different they amount to new songs. A completely new track roundsthings off.
- Genre: Dance & Electronic
- Released: 2/7/12
- Format Detail: 12 inch
- Format: Vinyl
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