Flora and Fauna, his debut for Traum, nailed that label’s dreamy aesthetic with its title and cover art alone, and his follow-up Hemische Gefilde went further by inserting short passages of birdsong between the familiar synthetic chugs. He's a bird watcher and park ranger when not making techno, and these well-documented details lend themselves easily to conceptual flourish. It’s difficult to determine Dominik Eulberg’s stance on this. Something of a consensus has formed coherence, home-suited listening, and thematic concepts are the true virtues of good dance albums, although when applied to other genres these values are seen as pretentious and indulgent. Meanwhile the fuss over what makes a good dance album continues. With the entire industry in its death throes, apparently, this growing phenomenon is truly baffling. Steadily decreasing CD sales have done nothing to stem the tide of long-playing dance albums.
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