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Limited edition comes in a digi-pack 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! Released on Metropolis and available May 22nd, 2007.
Welcome to Destruction
Paralyzed
Child Soldier
City of Darkness
My Fortune
Hostile Waters
Thanatophobia
Frozen in Time
One
Darwin's Nightmare
Blind Rage
Babylon
Bonus CD:
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)
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Funker Vogt - Aviator Limited |
CD $18.97
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