DEIN SCHATTEN „Ewiges Eis”

Dein Schatten was invented by Dieter Bornschlegel who is said to be known quite well in Germany – not only in the field of electronica. As I don’t know anything about his previous deeds I can’t compare Dein Schatten to anything he’s done in the past. But let’s concentrate on present tense…
Dein Schatten is an electronic music with a lot of samples sang almost only in German.
So, Dein Schatten impressed me with a nice mixture of, somehow, completely different elements. Heavy guitars plus almost dance rhythm (Dein Schatten, Abschied) is a mixture which does not always sounds good but this time it works pretty well. There is something similar to Deine Lakaien (because of a low vocal, in German of course) – in Er kommt zuruck or maybe Geister in Mir. There happen fine ballads (Schuld und Sunde, Tranen der Seele – with a real darkness inside and a great piano). What else? Slight traces of hip-hop (Woanders Sein radio edit). Typical German rhythms – something like, let’s say, marching techno like Rammstein (Das Tier). Some tracks have really sick backgrounds and patterns – i.e. Ewiges Eis and my favorite one, Free. The surprise may be the tracks entitled strangely My Name Is Luc(if)a – sang with a melodic line from Tom’s Diner by Suzanne Vega (that’s why it makes use of My Name Is Luca – the other song by that artist).
And it all seems OK. It’s a quite catchy music, not much complicated. Dance rhythms or triphop pieces, fine melodies – great for European charts. But… I have a constant feeling that I’ve already heard all this music before – Dein Schatten sounds as if the music was composed in a computer program… It’s not original, unfortunately. I could bet I can hear sampled Hendrix guitar in one of the songs…
The music to listen to when you have nothing better to do, little annoying, sometimes intriguing. Fine, but not genius.

note: 2/5