With its distorted synth bass lines growling simple melodies over primordial beats, the T.Raumschmiere brand of digital garage rock draws you in with a balls-out promise of something new, on which Haas capably delivers. Wasting no time, he opens the album with two propulsive 2/4 stompers, "I'm Not Deaf, I'm Ignoring You" and "Monstertruckdriver," the latter of which gets thematically reprised later as "The Game Is Not Over," with wonderfully sneering amphetamine vocals by neo-new wave ingénue Miss Kittin. He clutters Berlin techno's oft-sterile minimalist side with whirring broken-toy noises on "Someday," strangles some saxophones on top of the synth-poppy "Raubendisko," and even throws down some android hip hop beats behind brilliant female singer/MC Soom T on "A Million Brothers." Compositionally, Haas nails it on "Querstromzerspaner," a midtempo, almost arialike take on the monotonous proto-techno produced in Germany in the late '80s, and a prime example of the producer's elegantly unruly reaction to his city's techno rules.
