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Vital Weekly 458 review by Frans de Waard:
'Kreuzung' is the third release by Stillstand on Tosom (see also Vital Weekly 316) and it's project of Martin Steinebach, who also works as Conscientia Peccati and Monoid. The CDR is subtitled 'Drei Akutische Verkehrsbeobachtungen', meaning 'three acoustic views of traffic'. It is entirely based on a sixty minute recording of traffic, split out in three seperate tracks. There is some additional information in the package, but none of which tells us what it is that Stillstand does with the source material. In some odd way, the traffic itself is hard to be noted in these recordings except for the third track, and some eroded sound is what remains. With this release Stillstand continues to play the classic ambient industrial card, but he does it quite well. Deeply atmospheric, even when it's a bit low end and low-fi, with minimalist changes throughout. Quite nice.