Experience Orgasmic Electronica

When musicians make up fake, obscure genres of musical interest, a foreign nationality prefix is the usual, "unique" addition.

Enter the Morr Music Tour 2004.

The tour, making stops in the United States and Canada, features predominantly German ambient techno music. The five groups are playing at Soundlab, located on 505 Pearl St., Friday night.

The bands playing on the tour include B. Fleischmann, Duo 505, The Go Find, Lali Puna and Styrofoam. All the bands feature an ambient electronic or techno style of music, which is interspersed with lyrics in German or English.

Lali Puna, from Munich, Germany was created in 1998 after Valerie Trebeljahr's girl band L.B. Page broke up. They are currently working on their ninth CD entitled, "Faking the Books."

Valerie Trebeljahr, singer, songwriter, keyboardist and founder of Lali Puna, had good news about the tour in its third day, after having made two Canadian stops.

"The audience responded quiet well. In Canada, (the audience) was into the music but more quiet, nobody dancing around or stage-diving," said Valerie. Go figure.

The turnout so far has been quite good surmised Trebeljahr, estimating the crowd at 300 people.

"We're doing it because we like it. We don't take music as a business," said Trebeljahr.

She made it quiet clear that the band has no long term goals beyond the tour and is more casual in nature, having been created by a group of friends. When asked about crazy reactions from fans, Trebeljahr seemed a little freaked out by strange guys she's never met coming up to her and screaming "I love you!"

"It's a strange reaction, but I take it as a compliment," she said.

For the moment the band is full time but she suspects she may go back to working as a journalist part-time when the tour is over.

"I have no one plan. I think I'm always going to do some type of music," said Trebeljahr. Lali Puna is performing songs from their last three albums, including "6-0-3" from "Tridecoder," "Don't Think" from "Scary World Theory," and "Grin and Bear" from "Faking the Books."

"6-0-3" is upbeat and astral in nature featuring mystical lyrics sung at almost a whisper and a solid background beat accentuated with organ sounds from an electric keyboard.

"Don't Think" features Trebeljahr's seductive voice singing, "Don't think/ I'm too slow for you talking/ so quick your mouth moves," against calming and smooth harmonic background music.

"Grin and Bear" is similar in style to "Don't Think," with a faster beat and Trebeljahr singing, "Leave your dignity at home/ it's time to grin and bear."

The other German bands have their own unique variations on the stylized electronic music.

For instance, B. Fleischmann's "02/00" has a sharp electronic beat and rhythm with some slow tonal keyboard work and German speech early on.

Duo 505 sounds like background music straight out of a Sci-Fi videogame.

The Go Find's sound is reminiscent of Space Odyssey 2001 and features simultaneous synchronized vocals by numerous artists.

Styrofoam makes successful use of static as a beneficial quality in their work. The background static has its own beat that accentuates the extensive vocal characteristics of their work.

This is the third Morr Music Tour and locations after Buffalo include Grinnell, Iowa and Minneapolis, Minn., among others.

The show promises to be spiritually invigorating and contain plenty of electronic easy listening. It should even entertain audience members who aren't in an altered state.