So here we are at the second full length album of the German group that incurs random acts of electro attack on anything and everything. This writer’s first encountering was there ‘Tanz Kaputt’ track on the Alfa-Matrix compilation ‘Endzeit Bunkertracks act [IV]’. With the new unlocked case of songs recorded it is not a feeling of relief but more of anticipation. The band has been touring for some time, giving off essences of their new material at live encounters, though being unable to buy them.

To describe Straftanz I have found hard; my suggestions? Get a Midi controller, attach a bottle of vodka chocked with fireworks, glue that to a synthesiser and we have got something of good comparison to go by when showing your local community as well as yourself, what concentration of music which has now exploded around your bedroom and set fire to half the nearby district in the process, the volatility they are missing out on. (Though vodka and gun powder may be interpreted as not a way of explaining music, how else though was I going to describe them without using the CD? I better leave the vodka on ice and start this review)

The most heard of the new tracks being ‘Turbo’, summing up into a deep bass blast what Straftanz is all about. Leaping into the new decade, ‘Die Neue F-Klasse (Ein Panzerlied)’ hits that 133 beats per minute honey within your ears. There is definitely more of a connected beat to whisk up the arms on the dance floor, and this becomes truer by at least ‘Forward Ever’. Though you know this is 2011 Straftanz by ‘Bass Below’ that just comes after ‘Forward Ever’ named quiet possibly after the previous album sound, signalling that the music just got an upgrade within track list layout.

‘Enchantment’ I heard over a month earlier, as Krischan of ‘Rotersand DJing at ‘Infest 2011’ showed it off, and the amount digitalised slathering of electronic body attack hasn’t changed since. It was followed by me asking him straight after exhausting some muscle power, “Who is this playing?” Due to my virtual library unable to recognise the handiwork, really did show the quantified “Oontz” upgrade Straftanz has produced.

I think the take away beat track of ‘Biftek de licorn (feat. eva janina haas)’ was a very nice addition and ‘Fuer die kinder (ist mir egal!)’ gives the listener a nice fun whip of electro controversy. Taking an overview of ‘Mainstream, Sellout, Overground’. The sounds are still radically attacking, showing no care for anything they tread on; which shows they are still Straftanz.