BERLIN, GERMANY:-

Ich Spritze, the group’s album showcasing the new German Minimalist sound

Spritzen, the German trance uber-minimalist artists, return after a two-year session at the Studio, and the results speak for themselves. Their seminal new album heralds the dawn of an exciting new dance sound - 'Minimalist' house.

The album has already won rave reviews from music and art house critics alike, and one that will certainly have reviewers scrambling for their thesaurus looking under "brilliant".

'Ich Spritze' has been hailed for its unabashed audacity and deconstructional approach. Whilst the current trend is to fill out the techno sound, Spritzen favour a simpler approach, one that peels back the harmonic layers to reveal the very bricks and mortar of their work.

"We always found ourselves as somewhat of a performance piece without stage or curtain," explains Dieter Hoffman, front man for the 4-piece group, and co-producer of the album. "To truly appreciate our vision you must disseminate yourself from the experience of the album. To detract from the restraints of convention itself. "

Whilst their earlier works favored a familiar sort of late-80's Roland 303 excess, 'Ich Sprizte' hints in part towards a brave new acoustic world of post-modern minimalism and tonal sensibilities. This revolutionary album is nothing less than an audio odyssey into uncharted territory.

"You will find the album asks more questions of the listener than it answers, " said Hoffman.

Hoffman was asked how he responded to some critic's claims that 'Superhighway', their 15-minute single which featured nothing but a single note played throughout the entire piece varying only in tone, was a ridiculous exercise in listener patience.

"Ja, well this again is what I come back to," he said in a recent interview with 'Das Muzik' magazine. "To an extent the vehement reaction to the song, which we have endured during its live performances, has only served to highlight the frustrations harbored by many towards the limiting world we live and continue to perpetuate," he claimed.

"In short, our structures have become our prisons."

Embroym - retroactive dance music

"Superhighway is sure to challenge the listener as it holds a mirror to the very human condition. The existential nature of the randomness of the note represents the uncontrollability of the externalities that dictate our life journey. The note is an acoustic parallel of the human experience, a 'harmonic' life voyage."

"Embryom" the third track on the album, starts with the familiar, thumping 4/4 prog/tech beat, complete with the usual sythn stabs and fills, which slowly start to decay and drop out throughout the piece. Marching on, the tune meanders and winds, stripping instrument after instrument, to eventually breakdown to the true heart of the dance sound - a simple muted drum beat, which continues for a further 35 minutes.

Techno aficionados quickly noticed the drum's beat holds constant at 60 b.p.m, a rate that correlates exactly with the average persons mothers resting pulse. Hoffman explains - "There was no accident here - we wanted to take our audience to the very start. This tune, as the name suggests, is about exploring the inner child, to retroactively examine our very beginnings. That was our aim with this single - to create music from the womb."

"Ich Spritze"- available on general release Aug15th.