DIE FRUCHT

Supersad / Tschakka

7”, Dhyana

The last single by Die Frucht on Dhyana-records has been my favorite electronica-single / track for quite some time due to its delicacy, laid-back easiness and very comforting frequency. The second single on Dhyana makes another step but without leaving these boundaries, which is good, because they are working on a field I really really like. Let’s take it one by one.

The song on side A is “supersad” and starts off with some electronic pickerings that we have already known. Then a guy starts singing in that way homerecording-guys do, i.e. low, more like intimate speaking without full voice and low self-esteem towards their singing abilities. You know, most electronica-tracks are produced by people who spend many nights with their computers in a really intimate manner. They get into their tracks very deeply, and they wish you would do the same. But as far as singing on their songs goes, they’d rather hide behind their keyboards. This is not true for Die Frucht, because there were professionally done vocals on the first single. So the decision to sound like this was deliberate. The reason might be contrast to what is to come.

Because some time later we are in for another surprise. The song stops and, whoa what a taboo on a electronica-single, an acoustic guitar sets in and a beautiful female voice repeats the lyrics in a singing manner. This is a great moment! I am serious, because this shows us one more time, that the most important thing is the song, never the artist, the genre or the listener. Well, all of them are important, but it is the artists duty to follow the path of his / her vision disregarding where it leads to. The gets repeated in various, reformed ways until the song is over. But, hey, that was some great music.

I know that there already have been various projects of involving traditional (indie)rock-music with electronica, some of them interesting, some of them great, a good many boring beyond recognition. But here, with the Die Frucht-7” I was taken by surprise. I don’t like surprises, because I am a control-freak (boy, considering what I write about myself in these pages, you have to get a picture of me which is very much afar from the picture I have about myself…more food for thought) but this was a good surprise.

The second side – “Tschakka” is more reminding of the first single. A beautiful meander between ambient and trip-hop with some new elements thrown in. Definitely one for the smokers among you and good enough by itself.

Comes in a transparent plastic-covering to show off the yellow vinyl. The first single came in nearly the same package only in transparent vinyl. I hope there will be more coloured singles like these in the future. Or a whole album by Die Frucht anytime soon. Do you hear me?