Siriusmo has been making his own brand of spinny hard hitting well, electro (I guess), for a decade now and never fails to deliver. Always seemingly just off the radar, bringing out great EP's now and then with people at your average discotheque remarking "TUUNNEE" without knowing who made it. Then he resides back to his Berlin music cave to make another. This time however, he has just released his first long play on Modeselektor's Monkeytown entitled Mosaik. He brings back some old favourites such as the trippy, head nodding High Together and the mellow, uplifting Nights Off. The rest is a mixed bag in terms of destroying genre boundaries and creating a 17 track hedonistic whirlpool where no 2 songs sound alike.
Where to start, hmmm... Well, the title track, like so many Siriusmo tunes, starts off like one thing and then ends a completely different song. What starts off as a bouncey spun out jumble of rising arpeggios and hip hop beats turns into a dubstep beat driven skank out.
The album can be abit demanding with the first 30 seconds of 123 being German ramblings from an old educational video (I imagine). But its worth the wait when it drops to exactly the kind of song that makes me love Siriusmo. It's like his previous tunes that have cropped up sporadically from his music cave such as Die Rockwurst or Das Geheimis that are just so on it, so infectious but are effortless, like just on the off chance he decided to make a song, not that its a big deal or anything.
There are a couple of hard electro tunes which are very suited to the dancefloor, (Sirimande and Feromonikon) and some, not-so-nice on the ears experimental bits (Peeved) and the beautifully named Feed My Meat Machine.
My possible favourite is the funkiest interlude known to man; the boucey, sample heavy Las Den Vogel Frei!. There's no way you can't nod your head violently like James Brown singing Sex Machine on speed.
To conclude, this is undoubtably the most original electro LP you'll ever hear. You could spend hours trying to pigeonhole it but it would be futile. You could listen to it and wonder how the gothic detuned 'Adams Family' synths can make you want to listen to it over and over. . Instead forget all I've just said and get lost in the wacky world of Moritz Friedrich.
9/10
"Mosaik" (MTR10) by Siriusmo
