Rasputin's first album DAS LEBERWURSTBROT has been a surprise for me, because it gathers old and new techno/electro influences by sounding like a crossover of old and new D.A.F. passing through John Foxx and Kraftwerk. Rasputin wants to keep his personality hidden and I don't know if the name has been chosen because of Grigorij Rasputin, the mad monk which coming from a modest family ended by being one of the most influential man of the Russian throne. I can't tell what the lyrics are about, because they are all sung in German but I assure you that Rasputin's music is rough and tense. Even if it contains a lot of melody, there's always a sense of controlled violence on the eleven tracks of the CD (the twelfth is only a eleven seconds noise track which divide the two parts of the album). The violence explodes into all its beauty thanks to the remixes made by Ambassador 21, Asche, CTRLer, Iszoloscope, Punch Inc and Hell G. Definitively this is one of the best records of this early 2005!!!