DISSECTED AND RESURRECTED ALBUM REVIEWS
the fly magazine, ben graham
“Tracks from last year's 'Mass Market Misery' album are remixed for dark and dirty dancefloors, combined here with some of Freudstein's own mixes of songs by kindred spirits Arkham Asylum, Chaos Engine and Swarf. The originals are stretched and broken on the rave rack, twisted in the industrial thumbscrews and fiendishly experimented upon until, against all odds, the resulting hybrid homunculus takes on a hideous life of its own. Recommended.”
mick mercer
“A zippy and eventually weird remix album where songs from the first two albums get spruced up by various individuals, and the band themselves, with surprises to close. A decent enough way to maintain interested after their striking Mass Market Misery album, and presumably a stop-gap, but what the Hell?
Misadventure gets a frisky Gary Hughes dance bounce, with slinky accoutrements, and Ewigkeit make Shadows highly delectable, morose and dramatic with a beautiful synth heart and sumptuous female vocals, and conventional, intentionally confusing samples. Return To The Old Forest is a crinkly, creepy encounter, courtesy of The Grey Constant, then Autofire remix Robots Pt 2: Murder Spate and History Of Guns have at Robots Pt 3: Face The Truth, the former seething cutely, foulmouthed light-hearted cartoon gabba, the latter muddied and clumping.
Wings Of Death gurns rockily via Agent’s simple roughshod mix, Laura is a snapping, crackly pop thing from Dissolved and then Ewigkeit resurface to make twinklier moves around the lightly whipping Robots Pt 2. Swarf bide their time with a sliding Sister Sleaze and Looking For Answers wibbles happily, stirred gently by In The Now.
After that it’s odder, with remixes done by Freudstein themselves through the years, in the Resurrected section, which seems a bit cobbled together and bolted on. A menacingly stirred Angel Of Ruin by The Chaos Engine, a mental, capering Daddy and interestingly jittery Blistered, both by Arkham Asylum. Fall does a wiggly, sorrowful dance for creators Swarf, with its curious flat ending, then a surprisingly weedy end with Killing Method from Xykogen, shuddering about somewhat frantically and idiotically. Cheap and cheerful, harsh and tearful.”
Chain DLK, Maurizio Pustianaz
“After releasing their album Mass Market Misery the duo behind Freudstein started to collect remixes of their songs previously released into their two album and since their high quality decided to issue a limited edition remixes album where the first ten tracks are re-works of their songs and the remaining five are 2000-2006 Freudstein's remixes of other bands' tracks.
The first thing to notice is how much different the remixes of the Freudstein's songs are, compared to the original versions. Gary Hughes, Ewigkeit, The Grey Constant, Autofire, History Of Guns, Agent, Dissolved, Swarf and In The Now did an excellent work by transforming the original guitar driven songs into something totally different and interesting. The opening Misadventure has been turned into a cool future pop song by Gary Hughes, while Shadows is now sounding like a sensual electronic track thanks to Ewigkeit. The Grey Constant made Return To The Old Forest" become an ambient i.d.m. track with sci-fi atmospheres. Autofire made of Robots Pt2: Murder Spate a semi e.b.m./gabber with horror melodies. Industrial e.b.m. treatment has been the choice of History Of Guns for Robots Pt: Face The Truth while industrial metal is the choice Agent made. These are only few of the cool versions you'll find on the Dissected section.
About the remixed made by Freudstein (they remixed The Chaos Engine, Arkam Asylum, Swarf and Xykogen) I have to say that the old ones are good but not enough for me who know their new sound. They sound a little raw and less powerful compared to the new stuff, while the Xykogen remix they did in 2006 is less particular but more direct. Anyway for ten Euros you'll have the opportunity to have good tunes. If you are more into downloading, visit the Freudstein shop and you'll find a link where you'll be able to purchase the files. (3.5/5)”
Gothtronic, JOOST
“The album contains ten remixed Freudstein songs which are followed by 5 remixes made by Freudstein. The album opens with new wave like tracks with a nice beat, mostly a bit darker than the original tracks. But completely enters the cyber atmosphere with the two robot songs follow, which is continued during Wings of Death. This is followed by a well balanced instrumental track, containing both nice wave elements as some nice beats. It might be ill suited for clubs since it is instrumental but for the rest I am sure most people would enjoy it. The second remix of Robots pt 2: Murder Spate is more industrial than the previous version, giving it a darker atmosphere containing lots of emotions, creating a different feel for the song. Both remixes are less extreme in adding sounds to the song then Freudstein does in the original, but Ewigkeit has found a way to increase the impact of the song by removing sounds. The Swarf remix of Sister sleaze is a nice and danceable song with an easy going rhythm to move on, also creating a darker and more mysterious version. Looking for answers is an instrumental ambient song which increases the variety of music heard on this album even further from dark wave to cyber to ambient a very creative album indeed.
Several remixes made by Freudstein follow on side B. The second remix by Freudstein even enters the techno scene, which does not really fit the rest of the album I’d say but might be interesting for some people. This B-side is every bit as variable as side A, showing that besides being able to create songs over a broad spectrum of the dark music they are also capable of adding their own atmosphere to a similar range of music. (7.4/10)”