Janosch Moldau – Sense For God (EP – Janosch Moldau Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: “Sense For God” is a song taken from the last album “Host” by Janosch Moldau. This German Electro-Pop project has been busy for years now and is progressively getting a larger fanbase while this song entered the famous DAC.
Content: “Sense for God” was not directly my favorite song from “Host”, but the “Single”-edit however reminds us what this project stands for; Janosch Moldau is composing a deeply, melancholic Electro-Pop music. Forget any kind of ‘feel-good’ sensation as the music is driven by a lazy cadence and sad sounding, linear structures. The delicate timbre of voice accentuates the fragility of the work. The “Single”-version is followed by four remixes/edits featuring some clubby versions and even a rough kind of lounge edit.
+ + + : I’m often missing some power boost in the work of this artist. But an EP often is a perfect opportunity to experiment with other elements and that’s why I like both club-minded mixes (cf. “Adriatic Club Mix” and “No Yoga Mix”). It however remains a deeply melancholic and even depressed experience in Electro-Pop. This kind of music will not get you into a happy mood, but I can understand this project is getting more and more positive response to its sad resonating Electro-Pop.
– – – : I’m still not a huge fan of the title track, considering there are much better songs featured on “Host”.
Conclusion: Like it or not, but Janosch Moldau definitely has established a very own Electro-Pop sound.
Best songs: “Sense For God – Adriatic Club Mix”, “Sense For God – No Yoga Mix”, “Sense For God – Single”.
Rate: (7).
Artist & Label: www.janoschmoldau.com / www.facebook.com/janoschmoldauofficial
About Janosch Moldau
Janosch Moldau is a German Electro-Pop artist recording since the mid-2000s. Side-Line covered the album “Minor” and the EP “Ghost Tracks” in 2017, both on Motor. “Sense For God” is taken from the 2020 album “Host”, which Side-Line reviewed the same year alongside the EP “Broken Pieces”. Bandcamp lists the “Single” edit and its four remixes as two separate releases; the remix release carries the “Obermoll Mix”, “Adriatic Club Mix”, “No Yoga Mix” and “Voodoo Danger Mix” versions. The same year, Janosch Moldau also released the retrospective “Rewind (The Singles 2005-2020)”, and the artist has continued releasing music since, with the mini-album “Aid And Abet” in 2024 and the EP “Goodbye World” in 2026.
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