Fusspils 11
Halbwegs Verpeilt
To be really "halfway lost (halbwegs verpeilt)" again, you need a freshly brewed Fusspils from Lager2 production. Brewmaster Gerrit Thomas (Eisfabrik, Funker Vogt, Ravenous, Fictional) swears by the electronically generated sounds of the synthesizers in his studio, haunting sounds and melodic vocal lines. On "Fusspils 11" everything is a little different, but not really. With "Halbwegs verpeilt", after 17 years, the 3rd bottling of the project is now due. As with the predecessors "Gib ihr einen Namen" (1998) and "Elektro-Polizei" (2005), Fusspils 11 consumers can expect frothy electro beats, tingling basslines and quite a few songs, most of which were not penned by the artists involved. This concoction is all about the number "eleven", 11 bottles trying to get their vocals into the microphone to some extent, 16 tracks in an "eleven-pack" and 11 titles with which real musicians have had success. But actually, it's all about these 11 bottles! Gerrit Thomas has found the right mash for each bottle, so he has Bastian Polak (Intent:Outtake) fill "Haifisch" by Rammstein, Tim Schulschenk (Alienare) "Siehst du das genau so?" by Sportfreunde Stiller and Jan Bertram (Eisfabrik) "Schwarz zu Blau" by Peter Fox, among others. And yet there are also a few songs written especially for Fusspils 11, which could explain how a factory is kept running or why a TV-known professional boxer got into boxing.