I suppose (esp. since someone from the band or at least their website was nice enough to drop by a while ago) I oughta mention that I wrote up my brief review of die Warzau's Convenience and dropped it off at the station last weekend. It should be happily residing on the XDU playlist at this moment. One of the reasons I don't post my XDU reviews here is that they're not reviews in the consumer-driven sense that a public review is. They're driven solely by the functional needs of DJs trying to decide whether to play a specific CD and/or what song to play off any particular CD. As such they tend to ignore questions like "should I buy this?" and so on. So I don't know that I have all that much to add to some of the other reviews I've seen online.
If not all over the map, die Warzau do cover a lot of stylistic territory. Don't know if that makes for a wholly unified listening experience as a CD. Don't know if that even matters any more. For me, I almost never listen to entire CDs. I'm either playing/hearing 1 song at a time at the station or listening to radio, webstreams, other mixes or just iTunes on shuffle mode. No doubt making me part of the end-product of the short attention spanning of cultcha. whatever.
As usual, I digress. Convenience then... Good stuff. Very diverse, like I said, which may not sit to well with hardcore rivethead types. I picked up splashes of drill & bass, triphop, electroclash, even some grungesque guitars. I was surprised that none of the reviews I saw mentioned that "Superbuick" is really a way better classic Foetus track than anything ole JGT has done lately (don't get me wrong, I like ole JGT but he's also moved his sound around a bit). And "Gone Chemical" is a good answer to the question: what do you get if you cross Gravity Kills with Pet Shop Boys? (I hope I'm remembering the right songs there. I crashed out after dinner and now I'm all groggy and too lazy to go doublecheck)
I'd also like to offer much praise to dW's label Pulseblack for their refreshingly enlightened 21st century approach to digital ownership.