Brandt Brauer Frick : Visual and Aural Pleasures

German intellectuals in dance music are if we’re honest, not few and far between, but BBF suck up their minimal ancestors with live instruments and a technical proficiency that is more Mozart than Mystik. On record they comprise three German polymaths, drums, wind instruments and about twenty scary-looking machines, and on tour you’ll likely see eight or nine people banging and looping to an unbelievably complicated rhythm that we’re pretty sure exists in the fourth dimension. Second album in and they’re collaborating with Jamie Lidell, Ninja Tune’s Emika and Om’mas Keith, who recently won a Grammy for his production work on Frank Ocean's 'Channel Orange'. The live Brandt Brauer Frick experience is a jazzy (tech-jazz? Prepare yourself!) mix of drums, strings, piano and brass (although sometimes they do just bang on the brass to make another drum) that sounds as much like the soundtrack to a Gene Hackman film from the seventies as it does a tech groove. More jarring than silly old Kraftwerk, more cerebral than head-banging Hawtin, but (honest, guv) BBF are more entertaining than you would think watching three grown men bash things with sticks could be. I am a Berliner. You are a Berliner. Expect sexiness. And by ‘sexiness’, we mean ‘paranoia inducing, panic-attack inducing dance loops’.

Tickets for the tour, in which the band will be accompanied by Om'mas Keith himself, can be bought from ticketline.co.uk, and the filthily frenetic new track 'Plastic Like Your Mother' is available via the band's Soundcloud: