Fukkk Offf - Love Me Hate Me Kiss Me Kill Me [Single]

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July 28, 2009, 12:28 PM

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I first came across the artist known as Fukkk Offf, otherwise known as Bastian Heerhorst, at a Halloween party last year. His highly compressed bass was rumbling the system and fluttering my girlfriends costumed eyelids, and I must say the party enjoyed it, even if after the tracks, a few had to relieve themselves with a number two.

The “Love Me Hate Me Kiss Me Kill Me” EP features four remixes of the same Fukkk Offf track. Bastian has an album that has been released with the same name and aptly enough the first EP release is the title track.

Up first is the original version and it goes straight into dark electro-house territory, with what is a nice vocal sample and a very nice rave piano sequence. The original builds up into a very droney, big room tune with the stand out element being the rave piano stab sequence. Not a bad track at all, but certainly not Bastian’s finest to date.

Next up is the SCNDL remix where the tempo is raised up a good notch, although this doesn’t really take the elements anywhere different. There are some nice bass and glitch drum elements and this remix uses the vocal sample and rave piano to good effect again.

Third up is the “Disco Of Doom” remix, where the original is taken into slightly darker territory, verging on techno/hard dance. The vocal sample is more distorted on this remix and the track is very ably produced, I must say. Disco of Doom have taken the original and made it even more German (Bastian is from Hamburg) and even more “peak-time” with some very nice acidized percussion hits half way through.

The Polyphonic remix that closes the “Love Me Hate Me Kiss Me Kill Me” EP is similar again to the original and uses a much larger LFO’d bass wobble, so I would imagine it will definitely get used in the clubs, given the “zeitgeist” of wobbly bass.

In all honesty I would have really liked to have seen some more diversity from the remixes. A really good House remix would not have gone astray, nor would a proper deep-techno remix with the vocal sat way back in the mix and the rave piano used to full and proper effect. As it is, I am sure both the “Love Me Hate Me Kiss Me Kill Me” single and the album will be a success. Both are solid slabs of well produced, bouncy club music. I personally would have preferred a little more depth, and a little more variety from the single, but hey we can’t have it all can we?

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