Somewhere in time oldschool met newschool and by chance it's on this very record :-D As an oldschooler I must pitch the speed down a lot to be able to listen to it though. It's a pity because at least two of the tracks are really good. "Kater" (-8), a twirky acid-trance tune, and "Flöte" (-4), an epic trance thingy, are both great tracks that would have been so much better a few bpm's less. Lucky me! I've got a decent vinyl-carver so I can fix that. If you don't you can always enjoy the silver (grey) vinyl.

The only reason to get this is the bonus disc, Trippy Future Garden, but it's a damn good reason! That album, originally released on Polytox Records, was incredible when it was released and now when we're able to look back in history I'll definately say that it was one of the ten most important releases whithin the early Goa-Trance genre.

It's pathetic that it's combined with a crappy new Psy-Trance album here from Planet B.E.N. when it should just have been re-released as the fantastic album it is. Trippy Future Garden is sadly a lost gem that not many people have heard of yet so for that reason alone I really hope you'll get it even though the first disc of this 2xCD set is crap.

The second disc is hypnotic grinding acid/trance that was recorded just at the brink of dawn when the Goa-Trance genre was born (1991-1994). It should be in all acidheads/goaheads collections!

You shouldn't even bother to put that first disc in your CD-player when the bonus disc really is the music you should listen too! I wonder if the bonus disc was intended to be the reason for us to buy the release or if it was really intended to be just a bonus?

I think it's sad that so many of the early Goa-Trance artists stopped producing interesting music in 1997 or even before that! What happened to them then?

It's likely that I'm one of the biggest Nitzer Ebb fans here on Discogs, at least if you check the size of my collection of Nitzer Ebb records, but this record did not make me jump the first time I heard it. I felt that it was too cheesy and it reminded me of that awful period when Front 242 used a TB 303 bassline when they played live.

I think that I've probably been listening to this collection of Nitzer Ebb covers the wrong way in the past though. This cover album is actually quite good if you want to use the old Nitzer Ebb tracks on a contemporary dancefloor without clearing it totally.

It's likely that the tracks/mixes that I like the most on this album are the ones that would work the least good nowadays, but as a whole I must say that this collection of covers isn't as bad as I first thought it was.

When Nitzer Ebb finally did a reunion tour they hadn't really done much to update their tracks. It was basically a tour for the old fans, which I obviously liked a lot since I was there in the eighties, but this collection shows that a lot could have been done to update the sound. The people behind this cover album have focused on the things that make the tracks more accessible for the masses, but the basic tracks are so great that other alternatives could have been used.

I must give some credit for the vocalist(s) on this album too. The vocals are almost the real thing, just as good as the other great Nitzer Ebb copycats, Spetsnaz, anyway.

You shouldn't expect the music to be oldschool on this album because it isn't. It's still EBM but mixed with trance and techno elements in such a way that most old Nitzer Ebb fans would probably think it's too cheesy. Don't do the same mistake as I did though. Give it a chance!

When I'm "older" (I'm already old enough! DOH!) this release in my collection might remind me of a turning point in my life, a proof that you never ever should be old enough to avoid new music. Not that I've ever even been thinking that thought because I've always been "crossover" music-style-wise, but my main focus has always been the electronic stuff.

With this depressingly suicidal sounding doom metal record I'll probably start a new era of my record collection. This record ALONE is enought to force me to think twice about what I'm doing at the moment, buying similar records in abundance each month when there is so much other music to discover, and is that smart?

A friend told me that "I should get out of the kiddie pool" when I praised some music too much in a "I know it all" kind of way. I'll confess any day that it's possible to drown in a kiddie pool but it's unlikely if you're older than 3 years old. Open your eyes! Don't open your mouth! Your ears should always be opened up!

When you're exposed to tracks that stretch beyond 15 minutes in length you've left anything commersial behind you about 12 minutes ago. To even understand the impact a 17 minute doom metal track might do to you requires that you leave ALL the baggage you've gathered during the last few years listening to radio and other media behind you.

To be able to understand this record you MUST leave the path you're wandering on. You won't get lost though! I'm wandering along the same pathway now!

As the submitter of this record here at Discogs I feel that I must comment on the extremely poor sound quality. Take it as a warning all you Depeche Mode & Nitzer Ebb collectors out there! The Depeche Mode megamix is a very sad example of when someone just wants to make a profit by using us stupid collectors as the cash cow. The mix has absolutely no flow at all and it sounds like the vinyl was cut using a cassette as master. The live recording of Nitzer Ebb is even worse because it must have been recorded on a hand held device in the middle of the audience. No mastering was done as far as I can tell so the only reason to try to find it is if you're an obsessive collector who has all the other releases already. Trust me! You don't need this record!!!

I´ve got two different "testpressings" but the only difference is the colour of the labelstickers. The first copy I got (I bought it in 1992) is cerise and the second one (that I found a couple of years later) is purple. This is one of the nastiest techno releases ever, and when Robert Leiner (R&S) played one of the remixes at the party Totally Freak Out in 1992 at the wrong speed everybody went bezerk!