GERTRUD STEIN is a young woman from Switzerland who initially founded this projectin Geneva in 2008 as a joke project doing a cover version of Toni Holliday’s Schlager-Pop “Tanze Samba mit mir”. In 2009 she made her first vinyl appearance in the verylimited Hertzschnitt series with “Daytime TV/The Dread” (7”, HS 110) as well as herfirst CD appearance with “Plastic Spoon” and “Panik Attack” on the “Minimal Baby II”compilation (SLCD002-09). In 2010, a debut album was released on Urgence Disk Records(CD, kab 093). Her music is simply simple minimal electro with some electropunk attitude,think of early Tommi Stumpff and Kitchen and the Plastic Spoons, with a portion ofMalaria, xex, or 2VM when it comes to the female vocals. So, on this new 7” we are beingserved “Blümchen”, which is same style as before but slightly softer while presenting herweirdest vocal performance to date sounding like the skinhead singer from the “RomperStomper” movie, weird, yes, but no joke, but anyway from the a-ha-hahaha moaning, noword can be understood. Weird and minimal as Gerry & The Holograms! “New Gold Dream”has TR-606 drums along with some English lyrics and some o-oh-ohohoh here and there.Comes by pretty catchy. Surely not made for those who like complex and richly texturedcompositions, but for those who simply want to have fun for a few minutes and shake theirbody on the minimal electro dancefloors. If you belong to the latter group and if you knowand love the sound from Kernkarch/Hertzschrittmacher, go for it while you can!