T-Electronique

Faust Vs. DÃ¤lek

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Music for the Weekend: T-Electronique by Faust vs. dälek.

A little German-inflected Krautrock / hip-hop by Lilith composers dälek, who collaborated with legendary industrial pioneers Faust to create one of the finest genre-bends in musical history. Seriously. The album’s that fucking good, and is one of the biggest reasons why I approached dälek to do the score for Lilith, which they absolutely killed.

I also chose the German theme to celebrate the release of one of my dear friend’s books, The Fifth Kraut by Jeff Kohmstedt. It’s a brilliant and earnest coming-of-age story about five teenagers growing up in the Chicago suburbs in the 1990s. While that sounds like The Breakfast Club (which is not such a bad thing at all), Jeff’s book avoids the cinematic cliches and delves into the choices we make in our teenage years that ultimately shape our adult lives. That these choices are made at a time when we are at our most confused and misshapen is all the more poignant, and is something we can all relate to. Me especially.

In this blog I’ve shared the process of creation of film, and I have to say I was equally blessed to be privy to Jeff’s journey of getting his first novel written and published. Like Lilith, the story of the creation of The Fifth Kraut is one filled with ambition, dedication, crushing defeat, and ultimately the commitment to make a dream become a reality. I’m so very proud of him, and any artist for that matter, who shows the determination and wherewithal to fight against the odds and turn imagination into action. The Fifth Kraut is a labor of love, and I hope it gets the recognition it deserves, and the exposure of Jeff’s exceptional writing talents to a wider audience. He’s inspired me to finish my own novel, which has been woefully sitting only 3/4 completed, waiting for the big wrap-up that lives in the recesses of my brain. I owe it to my story to finish it.

The Fifth Kraut is available here at Amazon, in both printed and Kindle formats. You can support Jeff on his novel’s Facebook page here.