Excerpt: "while Portishead mk. 1 cut up old James Bond/funk samples and the like in a hip-hop fashion, much of Sankt Otten’s 1999 debut sounds as if they’re sampling the same sort of stuff Pulp was channelling on <em>This Is Hardcore</em>, and more power to them for it... at their best ('Tiefgang', 'Meter (Heute Anders)', the Eno-esque 'Ende Gut') the band breaks through into a nocturnal wonderland all their own... Otten’s post-trip-hop, sample heavy atmospherics aren’t quite like anyone else out there, and whatever he and Sankt Otten would go on to do, <em>Eine Kleine Traurigkeit</em> (which means 'A Small Sadness') marked a solid, promising beginning."

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