Current location:	Work
Current mood:	energetic
Current music:	Franka Potente & Thomas D - "Wish (Komm Zu Mir)"

#345: Franka Potente & Thomas D - "Wish (Komm Zu Mir)"
Comp: origami 1
Genre: electronic rock

Have you seen the movie Lola Rennt AKA Run Lola Run? It's an excellent German movie, with an interesting parallel-universe slant; I won't say too much more than that to avoid giving something away. In the movie Lola does a lot of running (surprise!) and this driving techno-ish soundtrack is a great accompaniment for that. The soundtrack has a bunch of motifs that recur throughout, including remixes of some songs and re-used sounds, that I think makes the whole thing fit together well. This song can be heard (partly) in the Tube video here. It's only 2:30 of a 4:09 song, but you can get the idea. This guy made some sort of video montage, but I'm not sure that the clips he used have much to do with the song. Anyway, I love the opening to this, always gets me going. The female vocals are done by Franka Potente, who is the actress that plays Lola, very cool. The male vocals are mostly in German; unfortunately my German is very rusty so I can't make sense of most of it (tho "Komm zu mir" itself means "come to me"). But this is an excellent fast song, good for exercising and driving. I dig the repeated Franka parts:

"I wish I was a hunter in search of different food
I wish I was the animal which fits into that mood
I wish I was a person with unlimited breath
I wish I was a heartbeat that never comes to rest
I wish I was a forest of trees that would hide
I wish I was a clearing of secrets left inside
I wish I was a stranger who understands the sky
I wish I was a starship in silence flying by"

There's this slightly clanky hit sound that's in a few of the songs from the soundtrack. I love that sound, and especially its placement in relation to the rest of the sounds and the rhythm. Awesome.
-bill