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Lost and Found (1998-2000)

Sun Electric [Shitkatapult]

18 February, 2008 | 3.32PM

Section: Music Reviews
Written by: Richard Brophy

When most acts split up, they tend not to keep working together, but this was not the experience for German ambient act Sun Electric.

It seems that despite putting out their last album together in 1998, they keep jamming away, and Shitkatapult have presented the results on this outtakes release.

What’s most noticeable about Tom Thiel and Max Loderbauer’s final recording together — and we’re reliably informed that this is indeed their last longplayer and that there is no more material — is their ability to stitch together elements from electro, jazz and abstract techno.

At times, the music does lapse into chin stroking, droning abstractions that even Wire readers would find self indulgent, but Sun Electric redeem themselves by making a play of their Detroit influences.

In particular, the warm electronic melodies of ‘Choc Au Lait’ and the sombre bass and clipped beats of ‘Ohaya’ show them to be skillful appropriators of Juan Atkins’ bassy electro and Derrick May’s jerky techno funk, reinterpreted to a European setting.

They are no longer be active, but this collection guarantee that the work of these crazy diamonds will continue to shine on.