Hamburgs post-kraut-electro trio Love-Songs and Ulf Schuette (Datashock, Phantom Horse, Little Whirls) have formed a group named Love-Songs & U. Schuette for the duration of one long-playing record. This body of work bears the modest title [Spannende Musik] - an attribution which sounds not in the least bit pejorative to those with no skin in the game: "Yes, it really is exciting music!" The adjective pinned to the music may go deeper: "spannend" can also express tension, in this case not to convey a mood or a tense thriller, but in a physical sense. The musical foursomes nocturnal world tour begins (and ends?) in a shamanistic factory hall with no clocks. Rigorous polyrhythms are accentuated by dexterously frayed edges. Radio wave rituals are revealed by flickering fluorescent lamps, a tribalistic screw box is in danger of falling from a conveyor belt.