Berlin’s Wellen.Brecher are allergic to playing within the neat borders of traditional electronic music, twisting knobs and expectations with a punk-fueled irreverence. For six years, they’ve been pushing against the grain instead, challenging the rigidity of genre and injecting a raw, kinetic energy into the machine. Their latest release, LIEBESERKLÄRUNG, follows the momentum of Tierisch Verboten and builds upon it with their first full-length album, packed with sharp-edged originals and reworked mutations.
This is electronic music that snarls rather than soars, side-stepping the predictable trance nostalgia that clogs contemporary dancefloors. Instead, each track nods to the past while refusing to be contained by it, drawing on four decades of underground sonic insurgence.
The album bursts open with TÜRÖFFNER, its opening bars paying an almost reverential nod to Afrika Bambaataa before mutating into a relentless Detroit techno juggernaut. Vocals crash into the mix like a counter-rhythm, cutting through the beat’s mechanical precision. It’s a pattern that repeats throughout the album—each track less a song than a self-contained detonation, a controlled chaos where lyrics ricochet off thunderous, body-moving foundations. A fresh round, a fresh riot. Call it bumper car techno with teeth.
Wellen.Brecher send the dial spinning backward, landing squarely in the fogged-out corridors of 1980s West Berlin with ROBOT GIRL, a track that slithers and glitches somewhere between Grauzone and Alan Vega, as if malfunctioning in slow motion. Then, KAPUTT slams through the haze with a sledgehammer, stomping through the wreckage in full EBM fury—this could have rattled Frankfurt dancefloors decades ago, its sweat-slicked aggression demanding movement.
After the storm, a shift. VOICE OF A GENERATION swaps pounding percussion for something more fragile: grand, almost theatrical vocals balancing on delicate breaks before dissolving into spiraling arpeggios, a trance-tinged high-wire act that never quite tumbles. Then, JULIA drags us back to the late ’80s, its Belgian-Detroit trance mutations pulsing with a neon heartbeat. TUNNEL TRANCE rewinds further: picture Siegessäule in ’98, a relentless 4/4 beat, acid-drenched hooks, and vocals drifting in like an eerie carnival barker perched above the madness.
Their cover of TECHNO DJ takes punk’s jagged edges, tears them apart, and stitches them back with electric thread. Finally, TIERISCH VERBOTEN lures the listener into its slow-building finale, beats looming like an impending storm before the synths kick open the door. Inclusion? Here, it’s not an agenda—it’s an experience, felt deep in the bass and stretched across every glowing waveform.
Listen to LIEBESERKLÄRUNG below and order the album here.
LIEBESERKLÄRUNG by Wellen.Brecher
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