Last year saw The Dance Inc. throw in the towel and hang their niftily embroidered jacket on a rusty nail after nine years of sonic song writing in pursuit of never-existing disco-mobiles. What set out as a duo grew to become a band, then returned to a duo formation, and all the while soared to highest musical plateaus, perfecting their concept of giving soul to electronic pop music. Not least thanks to keyboarder Stefan Goetsch, whose scholarly knowledge of Olivier Messiaen surpasses even that of the majority of those who are rightfully considered capable of spelling the name correctly. Nevertheless, The Dance Inc. incessantly and increasingly found themselves confronted with the ignorance of all too party-oriented seekers of big beats for whom – even after the “Legs and Arms” album produced by Tobias Levin in 2007 – singer Jan Elbeshausen’s dandyesque swivelling hip and forlornly soulful, clear and often unusually high voice were evidently too advanced, by far. This notwithstanding, The Dance Inc. now present their home-produced farewell album “This Fighting”, a cocky finale to a lurching career. Straight-up, smooth electro pop, shimmering in all facets of pleasant artificiality, sans doute calling to mind some of the great names of the 80s, though lacking the dusty stiffness thereof – often a result of the limitations set by the means of production of the time. “This Fighting” is certainly the most homogenous album by The Dance Inc., and the song “You Should Be On My Mind” is – to put it mildly – the duo’s greatest hit ever, making it all the more difficult to suppress anger in view of the unlikeliness of ever seeing them live again, which is a pity, especially when bearing in mind that memory fades all the faster in this day and age.