Informatik formerly known as Informätik is an

electro-industrial Electro-industrial is a music genre that emerged from industrial music in the early 1980s. While EBM (electronic body music) has a minimal structure and clean production, electro-industrial tends to have a grittier, complex and layered sound ...

futurepop Futurepop is an electronic music genre that has been characterized as a blend of synth-pop, EBM and dance beats, based on trance and techno.Peter Matzke, Tobias Seeliger: ''Das Gothic- und Dark-Wave-Lexikon.'' Schwarzkopf und Schwarzkopf, Ber ...

duo from

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that was formed in 1993Bush, John.
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in the US and Dependent Records in Europe. The band were repeat contributors to the "Mind/Body" compilation series organized by participants of the rec.music.industrial Usenet group in the mid-nineties. Both members are vegans.Interview on Battery Cage official homepage

History

Informatik began as the duo of David Spiegelman (aka Da5id Din) and Matthew Crofoot. Crofoot had some piano training as a youth and had a technical background, but was ultimately inspired to make industrial music after exposure to bands like

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. Spiegelman played drums and percussion as a youth and came to write electronic music via MIDI programming. The duo self-produced their first demo tape, ''Direct Memory Access'', and decided to start their own label, Sinless Records, so that they could retain control over the production and distribution of their music. The release included the track "Autonomous," which previously appeared on the rec.music.industrial ''Mind/Body Volume 2'' compilation, and a cover of Led Zeppelin's "

Immigrant Song "Immigrant Song" is a song by the English rock band Led Zeppelin. It is built upon a repeating riff and features lyrical references to Norse mythology, with singer Robert Plant's howling vocals mentioning war-making and Valhalla. The song was i ...

." The band used Sinless to distribute not only Informatik releases, but their other projects

Din fiv din_fiv (or Din Fiv) was the music project founded of San Francisco-based composer David Din (Da5id Din). Din was known as a frequent member of the Boston industrial music duo Informatik. He released two albums under his din_fiv moniker ''Infin ...

and LogiQ, and produced a compilation of Boston area industrial music, ''Boston Elektro 101''. They eventually opted to close the label after deciding the business was taking too much time away from their other pursuits. Around the same time the band secured a deal with

after sending demos to the label and Philadelphia area record store and distributor, Digital Underground. Metropolis offered not only to distribute ''Direct Memory Access'' but to sign the band to the label. Metropolis released their second album, ''Syntax'', in 1998. Crofoot left the band some time after ''Syntax'' and was replaced by Tyler Newman of Battery Cage prior to the release of ''Nymphomatik'' in 2002. The personnel switch corresponded with a stylistic change away from a more harsh EBM sound, towards a "trance-oriented" futurepop style. In 2004, the band released ''Re:Vision'', a remix compilation of their prior material featuring interpretations by bands such as

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and Funker Vogt.

Discography

* 1995 ''Direct Memory Access'' * 1997 ''Direct Memory Access v2.0 * 1998 ''Syntax'' * 2002 ''Nymphomatik'' * 2004 ''Re:Vision'' * 2008 ''Beyond'' * 2009 ''Come Together (digital single)'' * 2009 ''Arena'' * 2013 ''How Long (digital single)'' * 2013 ''Playing With Fire'' * 2020 ''Impulse Ambient''

References

External links

Informatik on Discogs

Informatik details on Metropolis Records site

Official Homepage
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