Label - Cocoon Recordings Cat # - COR CD 015 Released - November 2007 Style - Techno, Minimal Tracklist: Dominik Eulberg - Bionik 1 Der Traum Vom Fliegen 2 Freche Früchte 3 Libellenwellen 4 Löwenzahn-Luftwaffe 5 Autopfoten 6 Haifischflügel 7 Rückenschwimmzipper 8 Lotuseffekt 9 Bienenstich 10 Rattenscharf Steadily decreasing CD sales have done nothing to stem the tide of long-playing dance albums. With the entire industry in its death throes, apparently, this growing phenomenon is truly baffling. Meanwhile the fuss over what makes a good dance album continues. Something of a consensus has formed coherence, home-suited listening, and thematic concepts are the true virtues of good dance albums, although when applied to other genres these values are seen as pretentious and indulgent. It’s difficult to determine Dominik Eulberg’s stance on this. He's a bird watcher and park ranger when not making techno, and these well-documented details lend themselves easily to conceptual flourish. Flora and Fauna, his debut for Traum, nailed that label’s dreamy aesthetic with its title and cover art alone, and his follow-up Hemische Gefilde went further by inserting short passages of birdsong between the familiar synthetic chugs. With Bionik he's evidently keen on expressing his digital side, possibly a pre-requisite on Sven Vath's Cocoon, but that's as coherent as this collection gets. Despite winning moments Bionik suffers, like so many albums, from context confusion, with mood, tempo an