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KMFDM
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First, En Esch renovated a portion of the then disbanded KMFDM as MDFMK. Now comes Sascha Konietzko — partnering with MDFMK’s Tim Skold — with a new and unsatisfying version of KMFDM itself. The line-up includes a female singer, Lucia (first name only, sorry), whose vocals pair uneasily with Konietzko’s throat-wrenching, Rammstein-ish rasps. Also featured are a truckload of Rob Zombie sound signatures: melodies redolent of "Living Dead Girl," rapid-fire three-note guitar riffs, spooky-world sound effects.

All these appear in "Dirty," along with the ghoulish call-and-response vocals that, in a Zombie concert, serve as audience involvement. Unsettling, too, is the overtly racist title of "Urban Monkey Warfare" and its talk of an "underground" and "monkey man, monkey man." Only in "Yohoho," "Superhero," "Risen," and portions of "Preach and Pervert" does the CD find its way back to the inspired combination of industrial noise, spacy sound effects, and danceable — even house-music — beats that allowed KMFDM to bridge and appeal to the (actually not so) separate worlds of Nine Inch Nails and Giorgio Moroder, both of whom remixed KMFDM songs back in the mid ’90s.

BY MICHAEL FREEDBERG

Issue Date: June 13 - 20, 2002
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