January 24, 2007 | Posted by Blair at 5:15 PM

The Fünk

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Spacek - 1st Stroke (Funkstörung Remix)

I've been a big fan of Funkstörung ever since I first heard their remix album, 1999's Additional Productions. Their remixes of Björk's "All Is Full Of Love" and East Flatbush Project's "Tried By 12" totally blew my mind. Clicks and whirs, blasts of low-end bass, and grinding, crunching beats, but always coupled with beautiful melodies, Funkstörung's remixes felt like the next step in the logical progression of Aphex Twin, hip-hop, and young Germans fascinated with heavy machinery and computer technology.

Some of you who are fans probably already know this, but I'll still relate the news for the rest of you: Funkstörung officially called it quits in 2006. They're still working on music, just no longer with that name attached to it.

During their run, they put out three full-length albums, at least a dozen EPs, and even ran their own label called Musik Aus Strom. This song is from their last official Funkstörung release, called Appendix, a final compiling of another dozen their remixes. The CD is out now on !K7, so it is available everywhere music is sold - you can get it direct from !K7's website, or from iTunes and eMusic (it isn't available for download yet, but I'd expect it there in the next week or so). The album includes remixes of Phon.o, Barry Adamson, Lamb, and Ravonettes among others, and is definitely worth checking out for the faithful. Check out the Appendix microsite here for more information and to preview some more tracks.

ALSO to help celebrate this final Funkstörung release, the folks at !K7 were kind enough to give MFR two SIGNED copies of the double-LP Return To The Acid Planet, their 2005 acid-house release that hearkens back to Funkstörung's beginnings. So, to win, just email me -- blair (at) music.for-robots.com -- with the correct response to the following question:

What are the names of the Funkstörung guys' solo projects? (I'm looking for their names and album titles) We have our winners! Justin and Marcel correctly identified the guys' solo albums: Michael Fakesch's Marion and Chris De Luca's Deadly Wiz Da Disko - I don't know what Fakesch is up to right now, but Chris De Luca is working on an album with Phon.o that sounds dope - check their website here to grab tunes, mixes, ringtones etc.

Funkstörung is dead, long live Funkstörung!

Comments

thanks again Blair and !K7 and Michael and Chris, this is very pleasant. I've always appreciated what Funkstörung did, but for some reason it never completely connected and got me excited. I can't quite sum up what it is, maybe it's the very clean production space, the absence of wonkiness even when they are dealing with the most roughened-up sounds? cheers a>

Posted by: AndiChapple at January 30, 2007 9:48 AM
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