AD:Key – Alles Was Ich Will (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Body-Pop.
Format: Digital.
Background/Info: This new EP is the third one taken from AD:Key’s sixth album “Resonanz” released last year. The work features five edits of the title track plus 2 remixes of another album song “Schlachtfeld Der Liebe”.
Content: “Alles Was Ich Will” is quite characteristic for the “Resonanz”-album; still driven by good-old and well-crafted EBM, but with some extra Electro-Pop elements on top. There’s a “Single Mix” and “Tanz Mix” plus remixes by Final Selection, Implant and less familiar X10ded. “Schlachtfeld Der Liebe” has been adopted into a “Single Edit” as well plus an alternative and totally reworked edit.
+ + + : I have to admit the title song was not exactly my favorite cut from the album, but it remains AD:Key-stuff: danceable and revealing an intelligent retro-EBM style while the German vocals by Rene and Andrea Nowotny inject a special touch to the work. The “Single Mix” sounds cool, but especially the club-orientated remix by Implant is the true attention grabber. There’s also something to say about the down-tempo, evasive remix by Final Selection. And X10ded injected some extra ‘robotic’ elements to the song, which are cool as well.
– – – : “Schlachtfeld Der Liebe” doesn’t really add a true bonus to the EP. The song didn’t catch my attention on the album and both new edits aren’t convincing.
Conclusion: This EP is an item for the fans of the band, but definitely not the record I would recommend to discover this great formation.
Best songs: “Alles Was Ich Will – Club Mix by Implant”, “Alles Was Ich Will – Forever Sentimental Mix by Final Selection”, “Alles Was Ich Will – Single Mix”.
Rate: (7).
Artist: www.facebook.com/ADKEYmusic
Label: www.alfa-matrix.com / www.facebook.com/Alfa.Matrix Read the news on ‘Alles Was Ich Will’.
About AD:Key
AD:Key is a Berlin-based German EBM duo formed by Andrea Nowotny and René Nowotny, a husband-and-wife team. The project grew out of René’s earlier act Rector Scanner, founded in 1997 as his first music project, before he redirected his energy toward the more EBM-oriented AD:Key together with Andrea. Formed around 2006-2007, the duo released club-driven EBM early on. The debut album “Thema Nummer Eins” arrived on 5 December 2008, followed in 2015 by “Anthropozän”. René Nowotny discussed the project in the ‘Click Interview’ with AD:KeY of April 2016.
After signing to Alfa Matrix in 2017, AD:Key released the digital EP “Shameless” and a steady run of releases on the label, including “Reanimator” (2017), “10th Anniversary” (2018) and the EP “Never Enough” (2018). The EP Herz Lass Los (June 2020) preceded the sixth album “Resonanz”, reviewed on Side-Line in November 2020; a second EP taken from the album followed in December 2020, before “Alles Was Ich Will”.
“Alles Was Ich Will” was released by Alfa Matrix on 1 April 2021 as a seven-track download. The tracks are “Alles Was Ich Will (single mix)”, “Alles Was Ich Will (forever sentimental mix by Final Selection)”, “Schlachtfeld Der Liebe (single edit)”, “Alles Was Ich Will (club mix by Implant)”, “Alles Was Ich Will (x10ded mix)”, “Schlachtfeld Der Liebe (hölle ist, wenn du nicht bei mir bist)” and “Alles Was Ich Will (tanz mix)”. No further production credits are listed on the Bandcamp page.
The duo has since released the EPs “Nackt” (2024) and “Deine Augen” (2024), the seventh album 06.09 (2024), the EP Kontraktion (2025) and the single Der Böse Gott (2025), all on Alfa Matrix. “Alles Was Ich Will” is the third EP taken from “Resonanz” and the duo’s fifth Side-Line review.
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