by John BushPanacea's trademark Germanic drum'n'bass lockstep meets its vocal equivalent on this collaboration with the Japanese tortured vocalist Hanayo. The highlights here, including "Ich Steh an Deiner Krippen Hier" and "Hallo Hitler" (the latter originally compiled on Electric Ladyland 5), have all the distorted breaks and Front 242 leanings that Panacea fans expect while Hanayo attempts to win over converts to her style of little-girl-lost screaming and screeching. It's not only a good pairing, it's an intriguing direction for Panacea (and the course of vocal-electronica as a whole). Mootz would have faced a diminishing-returns backlash against his style of up-front EBM drum'n'bass had there not been some sort of difference to these proceedings.