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With his second album Zufall für alle (Coincidence for all) electronic whizkid Matthias Lehrberger alias AUF DEM WEG INS KAUFHAUS expands his cranky-cosy sound miniatures by using accoustic Jazz instrumentation and thus sending the inclined listener on a breathtaking trip of samplet beat structures and poetic jazz themes. His debut album Zwei (Two Schinderwies 2003) already had received euphoric criticism (Best click-album of the month De:Bug 12/2003). Now Matthias Lehrberger moves his electronic sound stories on to rather jazzy regions with his second KAUFHAUS-album. The former primarily electronic timbre is now enriched by accoustic drums, vibraphone, trumpet, melodica, rhodes and guitar. All instruments played by Lehrberger himself. The surprising and sometimes strange turns that his pieces take mainly derive from the fact that Lehrberger views his electronic sound from a jazz perspective. He makes them coming from Jazz and not - like most camparable acts - vice versa. With a fine nose for arrangements Mr. KAUFHAUS layers feverish grooves under strangly winding melodies to let them flow into psychedelic sound carpets. His tracks can also take dark hues and dive into dreaming moods. Most pieces fade into one another and therefore convey the impression of a film score for the cinema in your head. Everybody who really devote themselves to the music of KAUFHAUS will find out how emotionally deep it can be and that it has little to do with Easy Listening, Elevator Music or even Wallmart Music