Review: Founded in the winter of 2011 into 2022, Eisfabrik are Dr. Schnee (aka Charly Barth-Ricklefs), Der Frost (aka Gerrit Thomas), -Celsius ( aka Jan Bertram) and Fahrenheit (aka Rene Dornbusch). As per those pseudonyms, there's something very world-building about the group's output, with their sound a ferocious and fantastical pop-dance hybrid. It's theatrical to the point of surrealism, although always remains resolutely grounded in familiar genres. Not least trance, booming power synth, coldwave and - to a lesser extent - NRG hard house. Definitely not for shrinking violets, while some tracks here appear to owe something to stadium EDM ('Gotter In Weiss', 'Lost My Mind'), others are rooted in darker, more experimental ends of Casio culture - Gary Numan, David Bowie, Pet Shop Boys - with BPMs to prove it.
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