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Dear Salàd again. I write after saying I would no longer write, in the name of a consistency reminiscent of Gaetano. Once I heard an interview with John Foxx where he talked about the influence Kraftwerk had on his generation. Since I've known Ultravox! I've been carrying around the idea that they were the first to mix electronics and punk. I don't even remember how I got this idea, considering then that I didn't even have the credentials to form such an idea, but it has always stuck with me and made me take John Foxx's words as a document of the origin of the marriage between punk and Kraftwerk.
Only recently did I discover that a German child was also born from that marriage (and perhaps there are others I don't know about...). It is electropunk, the result of the synth work by Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft. A child perhaps with sharper edges than the New Wave and the like of English mother, no trace of decadent melodies, and where electronics did not serve to soften the peaks of punk. The seed of D.A.F. seems to have spawned several proposals in krukkolandia, Gorilla Aktiv being one of those who lasted the time of a minerva flame, burnt out within a year (1982).
This EP with the unpronounceable title was handed to me by Seborroik Man, Seb to friends. He, like me, is a most hapless superhero with a passion for music. Its creator was ashamed of him immediately after creating him. He just couldn’t understand what crossed his mind that it might be a good idea to give life to a creature with powers so... so disgusting.
Poor Seb, sadly for him, has an appearance that doesn't really invite others to deal with him, even I am not entirely innocent, I have avoided him on a few occasions. It's a problem even just to shake his hand, you always find yours smeared with... well? I couldn't even say what. And to think he has a sparkling mind, a great sense of humor, makes interesting proposals... he's crazy about punk stuff, garage, new wave... anyway, one day Seb tells me to try this stuff and I'm happy to lend an ear to it.
It's super lo-fi stuff, super minimalistic. Six tracks in all, put together with a synth line, a bass line (perhaps also made with the synth), an essential drum, a vocal, almost spoken, in German, and a few sporadic sound effects. Three tracks seem like nonsense to me, the other three for some reason I like (Ottos Pornos, Kopf Und Bauch, Umsonst Ohne Risiko). The sounds are nicely raw and the dissonances created between the bass and synth lines are bizarre and give aggression to the music. I also heard another track (1983) not included in this EP that I also liked a lot, with a nice fat bass. The version with this cover and title is probably a post-2000 reissue. Now I have to go, this time I have to face the bloodthirsty whore bunny. Av salut.
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