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Funker Vogt

Aviator

Label: Metropolis Records
Released: 2007
Format: CD & Bonus CD
Genre(s): Industrial, Electro

Track Listing:

1. Welcome To Destruction
2. Paralyzed
3. Child Soldier
4. City Of Darkness
5. My Fortune
6. Hostile Waters
7. Thanatophobia
8. Frozen In Time
9. One
10. Darwin's Nightmare
11. Blind Rage
12. Babylon

Disc 2

1. Deathmachine
2. Snow Was Falling
3. Lost In Translation
4. City Of Darkness (Downtown Mix)
5. Child Soldier (Kopfschuss Mix)
6. City Of Darkness (2nd Hookline Mix)

Description: Limited edition comes in a digipak with a bonus CD! Little over a year since Funker Vogt released "Navigator", they are back in the cockpit with their follow-up, "Aviator". "Navigator" indicated Funker Vogt's new direction and "Aviator" continues that by presenting to the fans what they have been longing for: 12 brand new tracks for the dance-floor.

Just as with the previous album, "Aviator" follows an overall concept: eventually, through time, memories of history and war fade away. Starting with the title track and flowing through each one after, the theme extends throughout the cover artwork, booklet, and band photos as well. The cover shows an old airplane and many more are found throughout the booklet, but not as a whole. Individual pieces are shown to illustrate the ideas of time, history, decay, aging and abstract ideas through the details of cracks, peeling paint, and crumbling rivets of these planes that are rusting away into obscurity and will soon be gone forever. With their passing, memories will fade into obscurity (much like the soldiers whose memories are vanishing) and only pictures will remain without a direct link to the physical manifestation. All of which symbolically illustrates the subject matter.

The lyrics deal at least in part or collectively with the theme. Highlights include: "Blind Rage" (discusses past wars), "Thanatophobia" (deals with the fear to die and finally be forgotten), "Child Soldiers" (kids fighting in wars), "City Of Darkness" and "Babylon" (the dark and gloomy outcome of the end of the world), and "Paralyzed" together with "Darwin's Nightmare" (talk about current situations facing humanity). Finally, along with "My Fortune" and "Frozen In Time" which are more personal in nature, "Hostile Waters" can be seen as the missing link between "Navigator" and "Aviator" by alluding to reformation, the obstacles along the way and the long awaited landing on a new shore.

A big undertaking went underway to diversify the sound structures within "Aviator". Over all, the album is fast and beat driven, with more emphasis placed on the sounds and samples to make it a much more pronounced album. This can be seen with Aviator's club tracks like "City of Darkness" (136 bpm) or "Paralyzed" (130 bpm) which are seemingly mid-tempo songs when compared to "Thanatophobia" (144 bpm), "One" (140 bpm), and "My Fortune" (139 bpm). All in all "Aviator" comes across as fresher, more aggressive and diversified than "Navigator" but still encompasses Funker Vogt's signature elements. Which is how Funker Vogt should sound in 2007!

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