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(3 out of 5 stars)

"Normally avoidant of any single because they don't fulfill any need requirements in my daily ingestion of newly acquired sustenance, I nonetheless found myself attract to the two VNV Nation Genesis singles because they advertised unreleased tracks on them and because it was a prequel to FuturePerfect. Fortunately, this did some good at the time, giving me two tracks to listen to that were "new" and two extra tracks of Genesis (one done by Icon of Coil and one a Thomas P. Heckmann version), shwocasing a great EBM song. Unfortunately, after the album was out, I found that the buy was somewhat useless because of the newness of the unreleased track herein. While it is true to an extent that these are new tracks,it is sort of misleading as well because the "track" on Volume 1 is nothing more than a technotronic instrumental entitled Weltfunk. It is somewhat basic, too, giving me nothing more that the feeling that I'm listening to a song that would lead into another song, like something of an abandoned introduction.
So, with this in mind, I would tell only the most needy fan to pick up Volume 1, keeping in mind that there really isn't anything of merit to be gained herein unless you like remixes. If you want a new track that is actually a track, skip it and go to Vol. 2."