[Style] EBM - electronic body music, ...sagt euch das was? Einstellungen

[Luminary]

Ich wollte mal wissen, ob euch der Begriff etwas sagt bzw ob ihr eigentlich wisst, was EBM "geleistet" hat.

[Chriskeepsdiggin...]

Also Kit Kat Club ist schon eine sehr eigene Welt und definitiv rein gar nichts für schwache Nerven! Musikalisch spielen die dort mehr Trance, EBM eigentlich gar nicht.

Lustigste Experience im Kit Kat. Ich und paar andere Leute alle schwerst daneben (auf was ist egal), stolpern da rein - parken an der Bar & ordern Vodka um mal wieder etwas einen "Normallevel zu erreichen".
Während wir so auf die Drinks warten, schweifen meine Augen an das linke hintere Ende der Bar, auf der eine hübsche Lesbe mit gespreizten Beinen sitzt und sich genüßlich von ihrer Freundin fisten läßt. Auch ansonsten schenken sich die Leute im Kit Kat nichts, wie gesagt nichts für schwache Nerven. Wir waren bereits so über`n Jordan das man uns auf Grund unserer Performance Level bedingt des Lokals verwiesen hat, wir veranstalteten dem Barpersonal zu viel Blödsinn! What shells - lustig war`s!

Zu DAF - Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft.

Members Robert Görl - der macht heute das Elektro Label und releaste auch schon auf disko b.

Releases:
* Night Full Of Tension, LP (Mute Records)
* Therapie, 2x12" (Disko B)
* Yip Yep, 12" (Disko B)
* Sexdrops, 2x12" (Disko B)
* Final Metal Pralines, 2x12" (Disko B)

Appearances:

* Blue Sex Drops on Kozzmozz 03 - A Galactic Techno Trip..., CD (News)
* Psychotrip (Richie's remix) on F.A.C.T., 2xCD (Prophetia Records)
* Psycho (Unreleased Regis Mix 96) on Progress Report, 2x12" (Progress Report)
* Dominatrix Supreme on Abe Duque Presents Disko B, CD (Disko B)
* Eric's Playing on Supermarkt, 2xCD (Disko B)
* Psychoring on Supermarkt, 2xCD (Disko B)
* Psychodrome (Richie Remix) on Supermarkt, 2xCD (Disko B)

Gabi Delgado - auch Teil von Liasons Dangerous umnd schlägt sich als DJ durch.

Releases:
* Mistress, LP (Virgin Records)

Appearances:
* Los Niños Del Parque (Official Delkom Live Mix - Vocal) on Los Niños Del Parque, CD5" (Mute Records)


DAF releases:

* Die Kleinen Und Die Bösen, CD (Mute Records)
* Goldenes Spielzeug, 12" (Virgin Records)
* Gold Und Liebe, LP (Virgin Records)
* Der Mussolini, 12" (Virgin Records)
* Alles ist gut, LP (Virgin Schallplatten GmbH)
* Absolute Body Control, 12" (Illuminated Records)
* 1st Step to Heaven, LP (Ariola)
* D.A.F., LP (Virgin Records)
* Verschwende Deine Jugend / El Que, 12" (Virgin Schallplatten GmbH)
* Alles Ist Gut, CD (The Grey Area)
* Für Immer, CD (The Grey Area)
* Gold Und Liebe, CD (The Grey Area)

Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, or DAF for short as they named themselves later in their career were one the most important German bands in the early eighties. They were one of the bands that influenced a whole generation of German bands who made up the so called "Neue Deutsche Welle", the German incarnation of New Wave. However, like many other progressive German bands (Can, Kraftwerk, Einstürzende Neubautren), they first became big outside Germany - in Great Britain. Therefore it's Mute Records in England who put out the re-releases of their classic albums. In the early eighties DAF created a new style of music, which was named "Electronic Body Music" later by their imitators. Their music was also highly influental on the techno movement in the early nineties. Some of the ealier DAF members became important members of the German techno scene later.

The band was founded as part of the German punk / post punk scene in the late seventies. They released a first album in 1979, Ein Produkt der Deutsch-Amerikanischen Freundschaft, a raw and noisy album, quite hard to find nowadays and unfortunately not part of the re-release series. In 1980 they relocated in London and released an album on Mute Records, a label that later made it big through the success of Depeche Mode. By the way, the DAF record Die Kleinen und die Bösen was the first full length album Mute has put out.

Sonically it's still the raw, noisy, and chaotic "early" DAF sound, especially on the second half of the album which was recorded live. The band was still working as a full band with a guitarist and drummer. Thematically the album already exhibits the controversional nature of the band with lyrics like "East is the best" (during the cold war era, mind you) on one side and the World War II nursery rhymes "the funny boots are marching over Poland" on the other.

But the major labels became aware of them and DAF (in the meantime reduced to a duo of singer Gabi Delgado and the original drummer and now electronic musician Robert Görl) was signed by one of them. Their music became more electronic, cleaner and more rhythmically accentuated. Heavy and hard throbbing disco rhythms for club play with very minimal melodies and lyrics. They were often accused of supporting the Neo-Nazi movement with lines like "Dance the Mussolini ... dance the Adolf Hitler". However their critics failed to address similarly controversial lines from the same track like "Dance the Communism" which lead to the conclusion that the purpose was rather mere shock value than political message. Beyond that most DAF tracks carry overtly sexual connotations (tracks like Sex Under Water for example).

The three successful major label albums are all more or less similar in style. The first one, Alles ist gut, has most of their well known hits (Der Mussolini, Der Räuber und der Prinz - a big hit in Germany in 1981), but this is most likely due to the fact that the sound was new then and wore out a bit after that. The second one, Gold und Liebe, is a little bit on the lighter and poppier side. Für immer is closer to the harder edge and features a re-recording of an old DAF classic Militürk, now titled Kebabträume, which was often recorded by other bands as well. In retrospect these albums are all equally good, and that is probably the reason why Mute Records decided to put them out on digitally remastered gold edition CDs through their re-release series for classic industrial music "The Grey Area".

After these albums DAF decided to call it quits. They reformed for a very short and less successful period in the mid-eighties and the members pursued various follow-up projects over the years. This year, coincidently with the Mute reissues they announced a comeback, but new material has yet to turn up.

Übrigens DAF traten vor einiger Zeit im Globus (Tresor) auf und spielten hauptsächlich altes Material. Die Alten liebten den Abend, die Jungen waren schwer verwirrt und konnten mit den zwei Opis nix anfangen....

Aber jetzt kommt`s DAF arbeiten im Moment an einem neuen Album, lassen wir uns überraschen was da kommt!?