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The German Bounce Wins Out
Funker Vogt's 3 tracks have tighter drum patterns and more aggressive vocals, which are two key elements for good post-industrial slam tech. Velvet Acid Christ has a weaker offering with a driving and hypotonic track that features a samples from a Star Trek in which Picard fights the Borg. I bought the CD because I thought Funker Vogt had remixed VAC's tracks and visa averse. I was wrong. Each band started from their own collection of sounds, loops and samples. If you like a heavy German bounce you will like Funker Vogts opening track.

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Great Remix CD
I am a big fan of VAC, so this cd was a must have for me. funkervogt i think is alright.. their good but to me all those germman electronic groups all sound the same... (kmfdm, rammstein, etc..) anyway though this cd puts two great EBM artists together and makes eachothers songs sound even better.

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these groups are at their best when at each other's throats
This is required listening for fans of either band and a perfect place to start for newcomers to both. Velvet Acid Christ is one of the most original groups in the techno-industrial genre today, though they can be rough around the edges; Funker Vogt cleans them up into a tidy and accessible package. An even better improvement occurs on the first half, where VAC's Bryan Erickson shows his creative outlook is precisely the missing link that Funker Vogt needs to escape its frequent dronishness and instead to stay unpredictable. Fortunes of War and International Killer equally showcase Funker's combination of relentless dancy beat and drill sergeant style vocals, with Civil War a throwaway mishmash of German army spoken-word samples. Meanwhile, the brilliant Bryan Erickson delivers some of his best hissing, dark, angst-ridden epics on the disc's standout masterpiece, "Malfunction," further enlightened from its original version by Funker-added harmony lines. Funker's sense of multiple harmonies counteracting the vocal line also adds new greatness to "The Dead." And in the must-have "Futile," Erickson finds a convincing perfect mythic analogy for postmodern rebellion against the machine of society - in Captain Picard's struggle against the Borg. This tongue-in-cheek effort offers a strange interplay - hearing Erickson's anger expressed through the impassioned speech of Captain Picard, while Borg drones chant along to a catchy dance-floor anthem, invokes a delightfully bizarre image. An awesome collaboration; if these two bands merged permanently, they would become the ultimate power in the universe. A must-have.