Mad Max (2015)

From a rusty dirt box to a golden muscle car in 46 hours.

First I didn’t like how the game forced me to do looting and progress painfully slow to be able to get to the story progression, but soon enough I got hooked and unlocked some of the idle loot generation methods so the engine started working and it was more about exploration, easy but fun fighting, and earning progress at a nice enough pace. At the end, I could help but max it out completionist style. My favorite bit was the beautifully done post-apocalpytic style: this game has almost ten years on it at the time of me playing it, but I had zero complaints about visuals, it looked fantastic to me.

Overall, it was definitely a memorable experience, and a true Sisyphusian Mad Max storyline.

Flanger – Lollopy Dripper

I had a hard time decoding this record with its extremes ranging from experimental IDM to cool blue jazz. Just thinking about the aspect of this being some weirdly unique and altered jazz sound, gave me associations of The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble or even Brandt Brauer Frick. But this was something different still. And then I read this was a duo of Bernd Friedmann and Uwe Schmidt (Atom™) and it all clicked into place. It’s amazing how two artists can blend into one music in a way that you can see who brought what to the table so clearly.

In full honesty though, my favorite track here is Sweet Silence, which has no electrnics to it, but the film noir atmosphere is just irresistible.

I came accross a bunch of artists opening up the whole Afro-Caribbean electronic music scene for me. Africa meets Latin-America on the club dancefloor. Funny thing, what made me discover all these artists were their spectactular album covers that I just kept clicking.


Ghetto Kumbé – Soy Selva


Nación Ekeko – La Danza


King Coya – Tierra de King Coya


Dengue Dengue Dengue – Son de los Diablos