Bomb Alert: Ame’s ‘Junggesellenmaschine’

Bomb Alert: Ame’s ‘Junggesellenmaschine’

28 July, 2010 | 5.46AM

• Written by: Alex Hughes
• Filed under: Music News: ame, bomb alert, innervisions

Ame are back, and it’s about time! It’s been a well-toasted minute since the duo of Kristian Beyer and Frank Wiedemann have given us something to salivate over. The last proper release was their bruising ‘Setsa’/’Ensor’ single of over a year ago, and since then, all we’ve had to go on have been remixes for Newworldaquarium and The Machine, along with Innervisions releases like ‘A Critical Mass Live EP’ (featuring Dixon, Henrik Schwarz, and Ame) and the ‘Secret Weapons EP Part 4’ (featuring a fresh Dixon edit of Âme’s ‘Fiori’, originally released on Ostgut Ton’s excellent ‘Shut Up and Dance! Updated’ compilation alongside cuts from Sleeparchive, nsi., and The 7th Plain).

But the new single, featuring the dreamy ‘Rrose Selavy’ and the harder hitting ‘Junggesellenmaschine’, turns out to have been well worth the wait.

‘Rrose Sélavy’ is a gorgeous start-of-the-night track with a lush, acoustic feel, with abstracted scraps of vocals buried behind bells and blur. It’s mellow, no doubt, but loping drums give it the requisite amount of force; this one’s gonna sound gorgeous played loud on a Funktion One.

‘Junggesellenmaschine’, on the other hand, is a brawny mass of bassy organ, bleeps, and brushed cymbals. Between the fizzy synthesizer sounds and the generally starry-eyed mood, it sounds like Âme have been listening to their fair share of James Holden and Four Tet, but they manage to focus even their most psychedelic influences directly on the dance floor. Only one question remains: why on earth did they choose a title that translates as “Bachelor Machine”?

Ame, ‘Rrose Selavy’/’Junggesellenmaschine’ [Innervisions]

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