Hey Dis*ko

The electroclash explosion around the turn of the millennium had around it a halo of strange and wonderful music that thrived in the breakdown between “serious” electronica, punky band music and techno. From Digital Hardcore to delicate indietronica, it felt like great creative freedom had opened up. The Munich quintet of Albert Pöschl, Didi Neidhart, Enno Palucca, Ivi Vukelic, Ralf Summer were case in point. They fit neatly alongside the contemporary trashy electro-rock of Add N To (X) or Fat Truckers, with a little of the arch mischief of Chicks On Speed, but really they were in their own space. There’s no place for over-seriousness on their debut album here — just fun, fun, fun all the way — but there’s a trippy weirdness that gives all of these fizzy, punky, jaunty songs surprising amounts of depth.