Scaremonger was a one-time only alias used by Christoph Fringeli as a launchpad for the debut release on his own Praxis label. I’m assuming that he must have had his mind on start-up administration matters for the label as a reason to why the title of this track and the verbal sample that runs through it: Soon, all of us will have special names are different from each other - boy, I really hope someone got fired for that blunder.
However, that discrepancy apart, this is a fascinating and near flawless piece of industrial techno, which after taking the time to lay down an exciting beats ‘n’ tempo foundation starts to crank up the sense of dystopian dread from around the 1 minute mark onwards. Fringeli creates sounds which evoke giant metallic kookaburras pecking at the surface of a membrane, while the drill-like inserts, which crop up throughout the track from around 58 seconds in, put me in mind of the noisy industrial hellholes that populate George Lucas’s debut feature film, THX 1138. Fringeli manages to walk the tightrope between evocation and danceability without losing his footing once. A year later, Praxis released a 12-inch set of remixes of this track. For me, the best of them was by friend of this blog*, Andrew Lagowski
Video courtesy of piteronio
*He left a brief comment on one of the posts.
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