Nitzer Ebb are a British EBM group formed in 1982 by Essex school friends Vaughan "Bon" Harris (programming, synthesizers, drums, vocals), Douglas McCarthy (vocals), and David Gooday (drums).
Recent years and reunion
Nitzer
Ebb began work on new material in Los Angeles early in 2007, with a
retrospective documentary still in the pipeline. During 2007, Nitzer Ebb
continued its trend of replacing drummers as Kourtney Klein
left the band to be replaced by Jason Payne. A first track, "Once You
Say," with Depeche Mode songwriter Martin L. Gore on backing vocals, was
played in June 2007 by Dave Clarke in his White Noise show on VPRO's 3
Voor 12.
This track, along with "Payroll," were debuted live as Nitzer Ebb
played a handful of shows and festivals during 2007. These tracks are
featured on Nitzer Ebb's newest album, Industrial Complex.
McCarthy and Harris reunited up with Jason Payne and producer Flood to finish up the first new Nitzer Ebb record in over a decade. In the meantime, Fixmer/McCarthy released its second album in June 2008, Into the Night.
The band announced a US tour for fall–winter 2009 and were selected
as the opening act of the January and February European and Russian
dates of Depeche Mode's Tour of the Universe in 2010.
Influences and legacy
The single "Murderous" has been sampled by other electronic music acts, such as Information Society (on "Now That I Have You") and Kode IV (on "Success").
Is an influential German electropunk/Neue Deutsche Welle band from Düsseldorf, formed in 1978 featuring Gabriel "Gabi" Delgado-López (vocals), Robert Görl (drums, percussion, electronic instruments), Kurt "Pyrolator" Dahlke (electronic instruments), Michael Kemner (bass-guitar) and Wolfgang Spelmans (guitar). Kurt Dahlke was replaced by Chrislo Haas (electronic instruments, bass guitar, saxophone) in 1979. Since 1981, the band has consisted of Delgado-López and Görl.
D.A.F.'s most famous songs are "Kebab-Träume" and, from the album Alles ist gut,
the grimly sarcastic "Der Mussolini", a pulsing dance song. The lyrics
"Dance the Mussolini, move your behind, clap your hands, and now the
Adolf Hitler, and now the Jesus Christ, and now the Communism", caused a
scandal.
In interviews they claimed to not target anything or anyone specific
while creating lyrics to be taken as a parody of words and phrases
floating around in the public media. "Sato-Sato" and "Der Mussolini" are
both examples of songs written around Delgado-López's fascination with
the sound of a particular word. A few months before the 2003 invasion of Iraq D.A.F. released "The Sheriff (An Anti-American Song)".
The album Alles ist gut (Everything is fine) received the
German "Schallplattenpreis" award by the "Deutsche Phono-Akademie", an
association of the German recording industry.
Style
Görl described their sound on Alles is gut in Melody Maker in 1981:
Most bands get a synthesizer and their first idea is to tune it! They want a clean normal sound. They don’t work with the power
you get from a synthesizer ... We want to bring together this high
technique with body power so you have the past time mixed with the
future.
Delgado described his new vocal style in the same interview:
The singing isn’t like rock ’n’ roll or pop singing. It’s sometimes
like in a Hitler speech, not a Nazi thing, but it’s in the German
character, that crack! crack! crack! way of speaking.
The band determined early on that they would not sing in English. As Delgado later said:
It’s not only a part of image. It’s a serious matter because DAF
from the very first beginning didn’t want to imitate any American pop,
rock or whatever. In fact we think there is a very strong American
influence in culture, television, music, everywhere. So in the very
first beginning one of our main content was to refuse to imitate rock
‘n’ roll, to refuse to sing in English. We don’t do that. We have our
own identity. Our identity is not American identity.
As a lyricist, Delgado's concerns throughout D.A.F.'s recording
career have ranged from sardonic reflections on ideology and political
violence, to journeys into a very physical, even brutal, sexuality,
sometimes related from a child's point of view. Having grown up as the
child of working class Spanish immigrants in Wuppertal, and coming of age in the politically polarized era of the German Autumn
(his response the left wing extremism of that time being thematized in
the 2003 song "Kinderzimmer (Heldenlied)" ["Childhood Bedroom (Hero
Song)"], he was blunt and unromantically detached about social reality
in West Germany, and unapologetic about the provocative potential of his
songs.
As performers and media personalities D.A.F. were, much like New York's Suicide, forerunners of later 1980s synthpop duos, such as the Pet Shop Boys and Soft Cell, in that the singer (in this case Delgado) appears relatively extroverted while the one who plays with the electronics (Görl) appears quiet and reserved. Visually, at least from Alles ist gut until 1st Step to Heaven,
they cultivated a homoerotic image of black leather, muscles, hairy
chests, and sweat. Gabi's hairy chest made a comeback appearance in the
2003 promotional video for "Der Sheriff", a song about the George W. Bush administration.
History
Formation and early albums
Görl came to Düsseldorf in August 1978 and met Delgado as both were regulars at punk club Ratinger Hof.
Görl noted, "The earliest line up of DAF was Gabi and me in the
basement of the Ratinger Hof. We created our basic ideas and we had a
very strong will as a duo. Gabi Delgado played the stylophone and I
played the drums." Several early Neue Deutsche Welle bands formed from
this social group, and Görl and Delgado played with multiple other
bands. The first two D.A.F. albums featured the original four-piece line-up and a range of styles. Their first album, Ein Produkt der Deutsch-Amerikanischen Freundschaft, was released in 1979 on Dahlke's Ata Tak
label (then called Warning). The album was 22 improvised untitled
instrumentals, Delgado having temporarily left the band at the time.
The band then moved to London.
As Delgado later noted, "at that time if you wanted to do new music
you’d go to London because that was the center, not Düsseldorf." Daniel Miller signed DAF to Mute Records because "they weren’t relying on past rock traditions at all, which is the criterion of what goes on Mute." DAF recorded Die Kleinen und die Bösen
(The Small Ones and the Evil Ones) for Mute, one side studio and most
of the other side live. Some songs featured thrashed guitars, electronic
screeching, and hammered drums while Gabi screamed and ululated. The
record was widely lauded by the British music press, and earned the
group an early cult following in the UK.
Virgin trilogy
DAF then shrank to just Delgado and Görl, who signed to Virgin Records and released Alles Ist Gut, their breakthrough album. The band became pop stars in Germany and gained great critical acclaim in the UK.
Görl played drums — usually fairly simple and relatively unsyncopated
patterns, but with simple variations that prevented them sounding
robotic — while Delgado sang. The only other instruments used were Korg
MS-20 and ARP Odyssey analogue synthesizers usually driven by a Korg SQ-10 analog sequencer.
Typically only a single sequencer-driven line would be used for a song,
the sequence functioning both as melodic accompaniment and as a
bassline. The song "Der Mussolini"
is a perfect example of this. On other songs, such as the title track,
certain notes of the sequence were set slightly out of tune. Overall the
songs entail a complex tension between the predominantly visceral (the
voice), the relentlessly robotic (the 16-step sequences), and the drums,
which lie somewhere in between. One song, Der Räuber und der Prinz (The Robber and the Prince), also features a Glockenspiel-like sound as a sinister reminder of childhood. Alles Ist Gut sold hundreds of thousands in Germany, and DAF became the fifth-biggest German-speaking group in Germany.
The next two albums, Gold und Liebe (Gold and Love) and Für Immer
(Forever), continued in the same vein, until, as one British music
journalist of the time put it, D.A.F. had exhausted all the
possibilities of the 16-step sequencer. These possibilities ranged from
something resembling rhythm and blues — you could just about play Der Mussolini as R'n'B if you wanted — to the microtonality of Im Dschungel der Liebe (In the Jungle of Love) (on Für immer) or Knochen auf Knochen (the B-side of the single "Sex unter Wasser"). These three albums (from Alles ist gut to Für immer) were all produced by Konrad "Conny" Plank, who was renowned for his pioneering work both with minimalist-influenced Krautrock bands and other experimenters in the 1970s, and with electro-pop artists in the 1980s. The band added an Oberheim OB-Xa for Für immer.
The band split during the recording of Für immer.
Post-split
Each member released solo albums: Delgado Mistress (on Virgin), and Görl Night Full Of Tension (on Mute).
Delgado and Görl reunited in 1985 to record 1st Step to Heaven, their only album in English, which achieved one week in the Swedish album chart at no. 46. Delgado later noted: "So we wanted to break our own rules and said: OK, so now we sing in English, now we don’t wear black. (laughing) With purpose. Because we wanted to break our own rules."
During this extensive period their historical importance began to become clearer. Legendary radio DJ John Peel went as far as to call them the Grandfathers of Techno.
Both Robert and Gabi had solo musical careers, with Robert becoming a
respected techno artist in his own right. Gabi Delgado also recorded two
albums as DAF/DOS ('Dos' here referring to the Spanish word for 'two') together with Wotan Wilke.
When DAF reformed for the 2003 album Fünfzehn neue D.A.F.-Lieder (15 New D.A.F Songs) their style had shifted to a fusion of the classic Plank-produced
D.A.F. sound with elements taken from Robert's techno work. The drums
were replaced with crisper electronic beats, but the ARP Avatar and, of course, Gabi's vocals remained in place.
The band prepared more music, but split before they could make another album. Görl played in 2007 as DAF.Partei with Thoralf Dietrich (from Jäger 90) as lead singer.
Delgado-Lopez and Görl have played occasional reunion shows since
their thirtieth anniversary tour in 2008. In 2010, the band returned
with a new single "Du bist DAF", limited to 2010 copies. The sound snippet is available via SoundCloud.
The band declared its split again in January 2015, with another farewell tour to start in May.
Osten Währt Am Längsten (5:45) / Essen Dann Schlafen (1:06) / Co Co
Pino (3:25) / Kinderfunk (3:02) / Nacht Arbeit (1:53) / Ich Gebe Dir Ein
Stück Von Mir (1:41) / De Panne (2:34) // Gewalt (1:24) / Gib's Mir
(1:01) / Auf Wiedersehen (2:03) / Das Ist Liebe (1:18) / Was Ist Eine
Welle (1:15) / Anzufassen Und Anzufassen (1:44) / Volkstanz (0:48) / Die
Lustigen Stiefel (1:49) / Die Kleinen Und Die Bösen (1:05) / Die Fesche
Lola (1:41) / El Basilon (2:52) / Y La Gracia (2:03)
Sato-Sato (2:43) / Der Mussolini (3:50) / Rote Lippen (2:41) / Mein
Herz Macht Bum (4:26) / Der Räuber Und Der Prinz (3:27) / Ich Und Die
Wirklichkeit (3:05) / Als Wär's Das Letzte Mal (3:24) / Verlier Nicht
Den Kopf (3:17) / Alle Gegen Alle (3:55) / Alles Ist Gut (3:25)
Liebe Auf Den Ersten Blick (3:58) / El Que (3:33) / Sex Unter Wasser
(3:05) / Was Ziehst Du An Heute Nacht (3:47) / Goldenes Spielzeug
(3:56) // Ich Will (3:20) / Muskel (3:23) / Absolute Körperkontrolle
(3:13) / Verschwende Deine Jugend (3:48) / Greif Nach Den Sternen (3:42)
Im Dschungel Der Liebe (4:11) / Ein Bisschen Krieg (4:02) / Die
Götter Sind Weiss (3:00) / Verlieb Dich In Mich (3:44) / Geheimnis
(3:23) // Kebabträume (4:01) / Prinzessin (4:19) / Die Lippe (3:09) /
Verehrt Euren Haarschnitt (3:24) / Wer Schön Sein Will Muss Leiden
(3:35)
Voulez Vous Coucher Avec Moi (5:04) / Opium (1:58) / Brothers (3:53)
/ Voulez Vous Coucher Avec Moi Part II (5:13) // Sex Up (3:26) / Pure
Joy (3:30) / Party (3:23) / 1st Step To Heaven (5:53)
CD (Dean 257 435):
Voulez Vous Coucher Avec Moi - Part I (2:25) / Pure Joy (4:47) / Blond
Hair Dark Brown Hair (3:10) / Sex Up (3:15) / Absolute Bodycontrol
(5:18) / Voulez Vous Coucher Avec Moi - Part II (5:28) / Crazy Crazy
(3:08) / Opium (Mix) (2:10) / Brother/Brother (3:37) / 1st Step To
Heaven (Mix) (5:46)
Der Sheriff (Anti-Amerikanisches Lied) (3:46) / Ich Bin Tot
(Romantisches Lied) (5:04) / Du Bewegst Dich (Tanzlied) (4:22) /
Kinderzimmer (Heldenlied) (3:38) / Rock Hoch (Sexlied) (4:27) / Mira
Como Se Menea (Spanisches Lied) (3:59) / Satellit (Weltraumlied) (4:49) /
Moschino, Heckler & Koch (Ganovenlied) (2:58) / Seltsame Freunde
(Kriegslied) (4:11) / Algorithmus (Zahlenlied) (4:03) / Der Präsident
(Erste Welt Lied) (4:07) / Liebeszimmer (Hexenlied) (6:00) / Komm In
Meine Welt (Liebeslied) (5:10) / Die Lüge (Wahrheitslied) (4:06) / Ich
Bin Morgen Wieder Da (Abschiedslied) (9:03)
Compilations
D.A.F. (LP, Virgin V-2533, 1988)
Verschwende Deine Jugend (Waste Your Youth) (3:47) / Der Mussolini
(Remix) (3:57) / Mein Herz Macht Bum (My Heart Goes Boom) (4:25) / El
Que (3:28) / Ich Und Die Wirklichkeit (Me And Reality) (3:02) / Die
Götter Sind Weiss (The Gods Are White) (2:56) / Der Räuber Und Der Prinz
(The Robber And The Prince) (3:25) // Liebe Auf Den Ersten Blick (Love
At First Sight) ('88 Remix) (6:01) / Im Dschungel Der Liebe (In the
Jungle of Love) (4:08) / Prinzessin (Princess) (4:17) / Greif Nach Den
Sternen (Reach For The Stars) (3:41) / Kebabträume (Dreams of Kebab)
(4:03) / Die Lippe (The Lip) (3:14) / Als Wär's Das Letzte Mal (As If It
Were The Last Time) (3:26)
Hitz Blitz (CD, JCI JCD-9027, 1989)
The Gun ("Powder Keg Mix") (8:22) / Voulez Vous Coucher Avec Moi
Part 2 (5:28) / Pure Joy (4:47) / Brothers (3:37) / Absolute Bodycontrol
(5:18) Sex Up (3:15) / Voulez Vous Coucher Avec Moi Part 1 (2:25) / 1st
Step To Heaven Medley (8:07) / Opium Mix (2:10) / Crazy Crazy (3:08) /
Blond Hair Dark Brown Hair (3:10) / 1st Step To Heaven Mix (5:46) / The
Gun ("Bang Bang Mix") (6:23)
Das Beste von DAF (CD, Mute DAF-4-CD, 2009)
Greif Nach Den Sternen (3:42) / Sex Unter Wasser (3:05) / Der
Mussolini (3:54) / Ich Will (3:20) / Verschwende Deine Jugend (3:49) /
Alle Gegen Alle (3:58) / Was Ziehst Du An Heute Nacht (3:46) / Rote
Lippen (2:43) / Sato Sato (2:51) / Ein Bisschen Krieg (4:02) / Die
Götter Sind Weiss (3:02) / Im Dschungel Der Liebe (4:12) / Verlieb Dich
In Mich (3:44) / Der Räuber Und Der Prinz (3:30) / Ich Und Die
Wirklichkeit (3:06) / Verehrt Euren Haarschnitt (3:25) / Goldenes
Spielzeug (3:57) / Als Wärs Das Letzte Mal (3:28) / Liebe Auf Den Ersten
Blick (3:58) / Prinzessin (4:19)
Singles
1980 Kebab-Träume / Gewalt, 7" (Mute Records)
1981 Der Mussolini, 12" (Virgin Schallplatten GmbH)
1981 Der Räuber und der Prinz / Tanz' mit Mir, 7" (Mute Records)
1981 Goldenes Spielzeug, 12" (Virgin Records (UK))
1981 Liebe auf den ersten Blick, 7" (Virgin Schallplatten GmbH)
Placebo Effect was a Germandark electro band.
The band was formed in the late 1980s by Axel Machens, Christoph Kunze, and Achim Windel. They have an early electro-industrial sound which has been credited as the inspiration of several other industrial bands like Front Line Assembly.
In 1995,
Placebo Effect parted ways, but Machens has teamed up with Ecki Stieg
to form the side project "Accessories" and cut an album entitled Vendetta.
In 1999, Machens also performed his solo-project called "Breathe" and cut The Laughing Dolls
EP and several single mixes. Breathe live performances also consist of
keyboardists Sascha Garthof and Daniel Sachse, and drummer Nick Zärban.
In 2011,as
part of the Infacted Recordings classics collection, Gargoyles &
Galleries was re-mastered and released worldwide limited to 1000 copies.
Tracks 1-14 were originally released as the 1992 debut album "Galleries
of Pain". Tracks 15 to 18 were originally released as the 1990 demotape
"Gargoyles".
Placebo Effect played live at the Wave Gotik Treffen Leipzig on
07.06.2014 there first live WGT concert since 2003. The band consisted
of Axel Machens (vocals, synth, harmonizer, drum computer), Christoph
Kunze (vocals, synth, sampler, percussions) and Achim Windel (vocals,
sampler, sequencer, synth). The setlist included 2 new songs 'Nothing to
Cry' and 'Slave'.
In 2014,
Slashed Open Limited Deluxe Edition on Purple Vinyl. Handnumbered (500
copies) in Gatefold-Cover, plus two bonus tracks and one remix was
released.
Discography
Placebo Effect - Home Production (MC, 1989)
Gargoyles - Danse Macabre (MC, 1990)
Galleries of Pain - Danse Macabre (CD/LP/MC, 1992)
Splashed Open - Pre-release EP Ausfahrt Records (1993)
Slashed Open - EP Ausfahrt Records (1993)
Manipulated Mind Control - CD Ausfahrt Records (1994)
MCMLXXXIX-MCMXCV Past...Present - CD (collection 1989-1995) Ausfahrt Records (1996)
PERFECT TORMENT, was a great and really rare band from Munich - Taufkirchen, they realeased their Debut-CD called EVEN TEN GODS LEAVE NOTHING BUT SORROW, a music style between "Electro Wave" and EBM. A rythmic intense that sound dark and melancholic,tense atmospheric and suspendend with threatening and charming soundmixes. PERFECT TORMENT is a very good example how were the 90´s EBM bands... awesome and creative. Gold times!
Initially, the music of Pouppée Fabrikk (PF) borrowed heavily from minimalistic electronic acts such as Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft and Nitzer Ebb, but with the addition of Jouni Olilla and Jonas Aneheim on guitar PF moved towards a more Die Krupps-style
electronic/metal mix. The "Your Pain - Our Gain" CD was meant to be
released in 1996, but due to differences in opinion between the band and
the record company (Energy Rekords) it was delayed until 1999. In 1996
the band decided to take a break and PF was put on hold and the band
members worked on various solo projects.
The band name has no meaning. It was constructed from a combination
of French ("Poupé") and Norwegian ("Fabrikk") words. Originally the band
name was meant to be Poupé Fabrikk, but when a friend made their first
posters he incorrectly spelt it "Pouppée Fabrikk" and the band liked it.
In 2000 the band re-united for a gig at the Tinitus Electronic
Festival and announced that they were making a comeback and returning to
their roots. They released a four track mini CD entitled "Elite
Electronics". A year later though, both Jouni and Henrik left the band
to concentrate on their respective solo careers. PF disbanded shortly
afterwards. After seven years of absence from the scene the band
re-united in 2009, Christian R filling the place of former member Jouni
Ollila. In October 2010, they once again re-united for a gig; this time
at Bodyfest in Fryshuset.
Discography
Albums
Rage (1990)
Portent (1991)
Crusader (1992)
We Have Come To Drop Bombs (1994)
Djävulen (1998)
Your Pain - Our Gain (1999)
The Dirt (2013)
Singles
Die Jugend (1989)
Summoning (1990)
Betrayal (1992)
I Want Candy (1993)
Elite Electronics (2001)
Compilations
Electro Revenge / Death (1990)
The Official Techno Club Compilation Volume Two / T.O.D.N. (1990)
I Sometimes Wish I Was Famous - A Swedish Tribute To Depeche Mode / Photographic (1991)
Electronic Beats From The North - Energy '92 / Portent (1992)
To Be Stun / Betrayalizer (1993)
Virtual Energy / One Foot In The Grave (1993)
Body Rapture Vol. 5 / Gods Gift To Mankind (1994)
Virtual Energy - Volume Two / Betrayalizer, Brigade (1994)
Energy Rekords & Beat That! Records 1996 / Weak Men (1996)
Vertigo Compilation 02/1996 / Weakman (1996)
EBM Club Classics Vol. 1 / Betrayal (12 Inch Mix) (1998)
Labelcompilation 98 / Punish (1998)
Vaws Vol. I / Photographic (2000)
Best Of Electronic Music Vol. 3 / Elite Electronics (2001)
FABRIQUE DES ILLUSIONS is an EBM minimal project from Brazil. This band was created in 2016 and there isn´t an album only few musics. Jean C. Correard is the mentor of this band, he doesn´t want to make an album now,but I hope that him change the idea. hahahahahaha... he made a remix for THE SKULL AND HIS NASTY MIND (Anhalt EBM and Electro Punk HC from Brazil too) https://soundcloud.com/jean-correard
RECONSTRUCTED DEVICE is a great compilation from Brazil. The mentor of this compilation is Émerson Felix, he plays and many projects like: Signal Operator,Kapital,Terrorsekt and etc... that compilation is to show what is happening in brazilian EBM scene. This is a very good opportunity to know many differents bands from Brazil,new bands and old school bands.
RECONSTRUCTED DEVICE I was a success. The next compilation RECONSTRUCTED DEVICE II is coming soon and will be another great success with many good bands like: N3VOA, Signal Operator, Code: Red Core, Fake Dreams, Aesthetische, Synthetik Form, Wonder Dark, Soul Pleasures, DJ Dark Side, Amorphous, Elementaire, Partial Objects, Kfactor, R3pvblika, The Skull and his nasty mind and P59.
Watch this video from RECONSTRUCTED DEVICE I and have an idea how will be the number II.
IN COMA is an old school EBM band from Germany is a great side project from MARK D´CHICKEN PERMANENT PERFECT ? ( P.P?) IN COMA ( This album is from 2001) was created in 1999 and your first album is "SATISFACTION". Satisfaction is a good example of the EBM minimal and some Darkwave structures in your climate. Listen these two songs from them:
If you don´t know PERMANENT PERFECT? You need to watch and listen these videos too:
DER NEUE MANN VOM NEANDERTAL or THE NEW MAN FROM NEANDERTAL.
Nosferatus
Man from Neandertal were men that lived 40,000 years ago in Euroasia,from western Europe to central,Northern Asia and the middle east. Neandertal is a small valey of the river Düssel in the German state of Rhine- Westphalia Germany. Nowadays, who is reading that text noticed that I like to search about humanity and their history. This name I created in Dublin,Ireland in 2009 when I lived there. I had an idea to make dark and experiemental music,obscure pictures in abandoned celtic cemeteries and videos influenced by German expressionism movies like:
Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari
Metrópolis,Nosferatus,Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari and Golem. Would be a multimedia art,but my time in Ireland was very restricted.
I in Central Church Pinda.SP.
My first step about music was here in Pindamonhangaba,São Paulo Brazil in 2015. Where I´m living nowadays. I would to make it clear I´m not a musician,I´m an artist and I have been studying in a University Santa Cecilia FAMUSC here in Pindamonhangaba. I have degree in arts,but I always want to music about a structure dark and raw and my big influencies in this solo project are EBM,INDUSTRIAL and DARK ELECTRO. I had contact with kind of music in 1988 and I would to do it without many features as the old schools bands in old times only attitude and few technology. DER NEUE MANN VOM NEANDERTAL is Jean C. Correard: Vocals and a notebook program. I have one digital album from Bandcamp ( FREE DOWNLOAD ) https://derneuemannvomneandertal.bandcamp.com/ This album is very raw and dark like my goal and I reached my goal in this great and the same time simple album. With dark climate,crazies samplers and hard beats.
GUINNESS FACTORY Dublin,Ireland.
My first album ( SERIAL KILLER )
Emerson Felix from Signal Operator and many other projects... giving me a anwsome support I won´t never forget it.
