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ARTIST
TITLE
A Piece Of The Action (1995-2005)
FORMAT
2LP
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BB 491LP
BB 491LP
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RELEASE DATE
9/12/2025
Double LP version. This is your invite to the best party around. Putting the focus on the body and following their feelings, Hamburg duo Mense Reents and Berndt "Jimi" Siebels crafted direct and danceable house hits which offered a vibrant counterpoint to the cerebral cool of their contemporaries. Emerging from the punk and rock crowd and ultimately smuggling a stubborn sense of self and infectious humor into the club, Egoexpress forged their own crooked path through Germany's electronic underground over their ten-year existence.
"Formed in 1995 and rooted in the radical spirit of Hamburg's St. Pauli district, Egoexpress began as a friendly rebellion? While peers like Blumfeld mastered literate rock and existential dissection, Egoexpress turned instead toward the bass drum: blunt, immediate, and liberating. Their musical upbringing, punk, mod culture, Neue Deutsche Welle, and a love for the hypnotic intensity of Suicide and Bohannon, translated into a fierce commitment to DIY ethos and sonic play? Between 1995 and 2005, the pair developed their sound from minimalist, Atari-driven loops to sprawling, psychedelic club tracks that gestured at house, electro, and pop, without fully belonging to any of them. Though an immediate sensation around Hamburg's Golden Pudel club, their sound took longer to become established outside their city? By 1999, thanks in part to an invitation from Westbam to play Mayday, they were finally embraced into the wider electronic fold. But by then, their work had already crystalized its core ideas. The '00s wore on and electroclash exploded. With their punk background, brash saw-saves and towering beats, it would be easy to consider Egoexpress as forerunners, though in truth they bristled at the retro fixations of the scene. They didn't want to return to the '80s and the boredom of East Frisian adolescence -- they wanted to burn through the now. This retrospective, compiled and curated by Mense, offers a long-overdue reintroduction to one of Germany's most fearless electronic duos. Neither early enough to ride the house wave nor comfortable cashing in on the electroclash moment, Egoexpress fell between the cracks. What they left behind is timeless: a heartfelt, headstrong catalog that celebrates instinct over intellect, rhythm over rigidity, and emotional intensity over sonic orthodoxy. A Piece Of The Action is a reminder that often the most vital music doesn't fit the moment, it defines one of its own." --Patrick Ryder
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