Sometimes what you dont do is as important as what you do. Brandt Brauer Frick have made name for themselves producing techno without the technology, using classical instruments in preference to synthesizers and computers. Its a negative thats had positive results. On the Berlin trios third album Miami, its again what Brandt Brauer Frick are not doing that is once again important: they arent slavishly following the formula of its two predecessors. "Mr Machine (2011s sophomore album) the record made with the (ten piece classical) ensemble, especially was very planned and strict," they say. "We wanted to be more spontaneous this time. We wanted to do something very different, more dark and more rough. We wanted to write songs rather than tracks that slowly evolve.