The Return to the Acid Planet is an album released by German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 IDM

Intelligent dance music

Intelligent dance music is a term that describes an electronic music genre that emerged in the early 1990s. The genre is influenced by a wide range of musical styles particularly electronic dance music such as Detroit Techno...

 artists Funkstörung

Funkstörung

Funkstörung is Christian de Luca and Michael Fakesch , a duo of IDM musicians hailing from Rosenheim, Germany...

 in 2005. It commemorates the duo's 10th anniversary as recording artists, and consists of new versions of unreleased early tracks as well as some new tracks in the same style. Even though it sounds very much like acid house

Acid house

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, Funkstörung replaced most of the original straight beats with breakbeats. The album sounds very technical and synthetic, with only sparse voice samples added to the 303

Roland TB-303

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 basslines and 808

Roland TR-808

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 beats. Funkstörung have noted that they didn't use real vintage hardware for the record, but virtual instruments that sounded quite the same.

The album is only available as limited edition double vinyl (!K7 Records catalogue number !K7186LP) and in the iTunes Music Store. Funkstörung have stated that "there are enough CDs

Compact Disc

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 already". No singles have been released, although there is a music video

Music video

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for "Punk Motherfucker".

Track listing

1. "Wearing Old Armani" – 5:47
2. "AP1108" – 1:10
3. "Shuffled & Buffered" – 4:04
4. "Commodore C128D" – 4:32
5. "AP1106" – 1:09
6. "More & More & More" – 4:48
7. "Punk Motherfucker" – 5:11
8. "B2401" – 1:02
9. "The Nipple Twist" – 4:29
10. "CB/DC" – 4:39
11. "You Go' Funk" – 4:14
12. "AP1105" – 2:14

External links

• "Punk Motherfucker" video minisite on funkstorung.com