The Berlin record label Pale Music is once again serving us a giant horn of plenty direct from the underground. It contains things on their way up, things which will remain shamefully overlooked, and things which deserve to stay where they are. The two first releases in the series presented names such as Peaches and Chicks on Speed, so you can imagine that there are great expectations as to who will make it in this third heat.

The field is certainly a broad one. All the way from heavy machine beats to to pure dirty snot punk. A few prominent people are here as well. Such as Marc Almond who does the vocals on Punx Soundcheck's "Vanity-Poverty-Revenge." Unfortunately the result is just a little dull.
Then there's a lot more spark when former members of Adam and The Ants and Renegade Soundwave meet up in Lavender Pill Mob and let themselves be remixed by Film 2. It's funky, punky and pop on a high level with both humor, edge and coolness and everything else which ought to make a great hit.

Thus the collection is a multitude of trash and treasures. While lots of tracks spark with energi, power and imagination, others seem a little stiff and stereotyped. These days it takes more than a beat, a punk guitar and lyrics of sex, drugs and night clubs to impress.
Fortunately this double album has a full 41 tracks to choose between. And if the world was a better place, lots of these songs would be super hits. And also Denmark has a very good representative in Mish and his "Beauty Regime." In this song the electronics and the punk attitude go hand in hand in in a sharply pricking sound, as it does in many of the best tracks.

All in all you only need a few pushes on the "skip"-button along the way, and then Berlin Insane III is a very good possible soundtrack if you wanna party like mad.