Another interesting release from snow-capped Swiss higher grounds comes from the sound machines of a couple of friends of long standing, Bern-based producers Jakob Stoller (aka Dj Ramax) and Daniel Wihler, whose releases with aliases Alphatronic and Mustfuzz (or Muzzfuzz, the name I remember the first time this collaborative project with Tom Vedvik landed on my hi-fi system on the occasion of the issue of "Electro Commando 1 - Welcome to Psicity", an opulent compiation by Anthony Rother's Psi49net) could have already reached your headphones. The circumstance they come from relatively different fields and have a different approach to music production (whereas Stoller is more "dance-oriented", Wihler has a taste for more atmosheric music) have repercussions on the direction their co-signed project Tastatur (German word for "computer keyboard") follows. The album could be ideally splitted in two parts as the first tracks sound more "atmospheric" in spite of the insert of deep bass lines and phat slowed beats, so that weird electro and thessaloniki martial electro influences look like tallying with a sonic research whose high quality and dramatic hooks could be vaguely associated to some stuff issued by Ant Zen or Brume (Flint Glass, S:Cage or similar stuff), those sonic epic tales some Greek electronic performers often evoke throughout their music or even some interesting episodes related to the first waves of technoid ambient-trance (Brain Pilot, Model 500, Beaumont Hannant), even if in many track this Swiss project lean towards viscous and pasty sonorities ("Rolldose", "Dandanchak"), which some nice addictions of old-fashioned electronic dub stepping (in tracks such as "Eierkuchen", "Pepadsh" or "Swirell" - one of my favorite track of the whole album -), contemporary dubstep declensions ("Daemmerzustand", the fuzzy gleeful clicks'n'clocks of the title track or the nervously wired "Broadband" - another highlight - ) and occasional mongrels with Teutonic standard minimal techno ("Hausgang", "Bubble Control") make their sound punchier and snappier. Their hybrids include so many elements that some tracks are quite difficult to file under some precisely defined style, but this aspect cannot be considered a defect, but the authentic driving force of Tastatur instead.