Mueran Humano’s music has clear echoes from progressive German 1970s kraut rock, but while groups such as Kraftwerk and Neu! were more about a shining modernism where the individual flies over perfect highways, this group instead invites us into a rusty dystopia.

We instead drive over a bumpy, deserted autobahn—a straight line consisting of a drum machine, synth, and electric bass. The audience longing for melodies must be patient, but will eventually be satisfied when synthetically beautiful notes appear, throwing longing looks back to New York around 1967–1977 and projects such as Silver Apples and Suicide.

Mueran Humanos consists of Carmen Burguess (vocals, drum machine, synth) and Tomas Nochteff (vocals, bass, drum machine). They met in Buenos Aires ten years ago, when Nochteff was supposedly completely knocked over when he one night saw a new punk band play at a club. The band’s keyboard player was a teenager in a white dress who seemed to be possessed by demons while on stage. The band was called Mujercitas Terror, and the girl was Carmen Burgess. It would take four more years and a move to Europe before the two started a band together. They lived in Barcelona for a while, then moved to Berlin where they stared producing art, fanzines, and improvised drone music. The name Mueran Humanos came about by accident when Tomas Nochteff created a fanzine with collage from magazine cut-outs. It can be read in different ways: as “die, people,” “let the human part of you die,” or, confusingly enough “die before you leave the human form.”

Soon songs began to take form and in 2011 the duo released their debut album and started to build a reputation as a minimalistic, hard live act. On their new album Miseress they have taken careful steps toward a more melodic sound. This is also the first time they have invited a guitarist to play with them: no one less than Jochen Arbeit, from the legendary industrial band Einstürzende Neubauten.