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Für Immer (D.A.F. Album)
''Für immer'' (''Forever'') is the fifth album by Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, released in 1982. It was their last album for Virgin Records. The band decided to split during the recording of ''Für immer'', disillusioned with the reception of ''Gold und Liebe''. Gabi Delgado and Robert Görl followed with the solo albums ''Mistress'' (Delgado) and ''Night Full of Tension'' (Görl). The album was reissued on Mute Records in 1998. Reception ''The AllMusic Guide to Electronica'' calls it "defiantly non-melodic though not exactly harsh" and finds it a "disappointing album."John Bush"DAF."''AllMusic Guide to Electronica: the definitive guide to electronic music'', p114. Vladimir Bogdanov, ed., 2001. Backbeat Books. . ''Trouser Press ''Trouser Press'' was a rock and roll magazine started in New York in 1974 as a mimeographed fanzine by editor/publisher Ira Robbins, fellow fan of the Who, Dave Schulps, and Karen Rose under the name "Trans-Oceanic Trouser Press" (a re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track cartridge, 8-track or Cassette tape, cassette), or digital distribution, digital. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78 rpm records (78s) collected in a bound book resembling a photo album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP record, long-playing (LP) records played at rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the ''album era''. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983, being gradually supplanted by the cassette tape throughout the 1970s and early 1980s; the popul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabi Delgado-López
Gabriel Delgado-López (18 April 1958 – 22 March 2020), commonly known as Gabi Delgado, was a Spanish-born German composer, lyricist and producer, best known as singer and co-founder, with Robert Görl, of the German electronic band Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft. Biography Delgado-López grew up in Córdoba, Andalusia, Córdoba. In 1966, his family moved to Germany ("My father had to leave Spain under Francisco Franco, Franco"), where they lived in Remscheid, Wuppertal, Dortmund and Düsseldorf. He formed D.A.F. with Görl in 1978. In 1980, he moved to London, where he lived until D.A.F. first split in 1982. He then moved to Zürich and released the solo album ''Mistress'', which did not sell well in Germany but was top 20 in Japan, then reuniting with Görl to record the 1986 D.A.F. album ''1st Step to Heaven''. In 1986, he moved to Berlin to become a DJ and organise house music, house parties. He organized (with WestBam and Marc Gubler) the first house party in Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virgin Records Albums
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Albums Produced By Conny Plank
An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track or cassette), or digital. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78 rpm records (78s) collected in a bound book resembling a photo album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl long-playing (LP) records played at rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the ''album era''. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983, being gradually supplanted by the cassette tape throughout the 1970s and early 1980s; the popularity of the cassette reached its peak during the late 1980s before sharply declini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1982 Albums
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Trouser Press
''Trouser Press'' was a rock and roll magazine started in New York in 1974 as a mimeographed fanzine by editor/publisher Ira Robbins, fellow fan of the Who, Dave Schulps, and Karen Rose under the name "Trans-Oceanic Trouser Press" (a reference to a song by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and an acronymic play on the British TV show ''Top of the Pops)''. Publication of the magazine ceased in 1984. The unexpired portion of mail subscriptions was completed by ''Rolling Stone'' sister publication ''Record'', which itself folded in 1985. ''Trouser Press'' has continued to exist in various formats. History The magazine's original scope was British bands and artists (early issues featured the slogan "America's Only British Rock Magazine"). Initial issues contained occasional interviews with major artists like Brian Eno and Robert Fripp and extensive record reviews. After 14 issues, the title was shortened to simply ''Trouser Press'', and it gradually transformed into a professional magazin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mute Records
Mute Records is a British independent record label owned and founded in 1978 by Daniel Miller (music producer), Daniel Miller. It has featured several prominent musical acts on its roster such as Depeche Mode, Erasure (duo), Erasure, Einstürzende Neubauten, Fad Gadget, Goldfrapp, Grinderman, Arca (musician), Arca, Inspiral Carpets, Moby, New Order (band), New Order, Laibach, Nitzer Ebb, Yann Tiersen, Wire (band), Wire, Yeasayer, Fever Ray, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Yazoo (band), Yazoo, and M83 (band), M83. History Beginnings During 1978, Daniel Miller (music producer), Daniel Miller began recording music, using synthesisers, under the name The Normal.Mute – Documentary Evidence – Biba Kopf 1986 He recorded the tracks "T.V.O.D." and "Warm Leatherette" and distributed them through Rough Trade Shops under the label name Mute Records. The label was formed initially just to release the one single.Muted Response – Daniel Miller Interview – E&MM 1984 "T.V.O.D."/"Warm Leath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Görl
Robert Görl (born 15 June 1955 in Munich) is a German musician, best known for his work with Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft (D.A.F.) and for his solo recordings, particularly ''Night Full Of Tension'' and "Darling Don't Leave Me" (together with Annie Lennox) . Biography Görl started his life in an orphanage. At the age of 18, Görl took drum lessons with the jazz musician Freddie Brocksieper. In 1974 he started a classical music education at the Leopold Mozart Conservatory in Augsburg and in 1976 at the University of Graz while also devoting himself to jazz.Wir waren eine Zukunftsvision' – Interview bei taz.de, retrieved 6 November 2012 In 1978, he interrupted his studies, went to London and became interested in punk rock. In the same year, he met Gabriel "Gabi" Delgado-López in Düsseldorf and formed DAF. Görl also played in other bands such as Der Plan. Robert Görl recorded seven albums with DAF from 1979 - 2003. In 1982 DAF received the " Deutscher Schallp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online database, online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on Musical artist, musicians and Musical ensemble, bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All-Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar, and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as compact discs (CDs) replaced LP record, LPs and cassette (format), cassettes as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it, he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft (; "German-American Friendship"), or D.A.F., was a German electropunk/Neue Deutsche Welle band from Düsseldorf, formed in 1978 featuring Gabi Delgado-López, Gabriel "Gabi" Delgado-López (vocals), Robert Görl (drums, percussion, electronic instruments), Kurt Dahlke, 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. Gabi Delgado-Lopez died on 22 March 2020 aged 61. In interviews they claimed not to target anything or anyone specific while writing 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. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1st Step To Heaven
''1st Step to Heaven'' is a 1986 album by Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, released on Dean Records via Ariola in Europe. It is their only album in English rather than German. Singer Gabi Delgado-López 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." The album charted for one week on the Swedish album charts at No. 46. The first single from the album, "Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir" (an original, though the title is a quote from the lyrics of "Lady Marmalade"), reached No. 47 on the German singles chart (charting for 7 weeks) and No. 17 on the Belgian singles chart (charting for 5 weeks). Another single, "Brothers", reached No. 23 on the Belgian singles chart (charting for 4 weeks). The band reunited to make the album but split again soon after its release. A variant track listing was released in the US as ''Hitz Blitz'' in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gold Und Liebe
''Gold und Liebe'' (''Gold and Love'') is the fourth album by Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, released on Virgin Records in 1981. It was produced by Conny Plank. The album was in the German charts for 21 weeks, peaking at No. 35, and the Austrian charts for 10 weeks, peaking at No. 4. The album was reissued on Mute Records in 1998. Reception In 2007 the album was included in The Guardian list 1000 Albums to Hear Before You Die. ''The AllMusic Guide to Electronica'' describes the album as "a touch less powerful than on '' Alles''" and not as immediately varied.Ned Raggett"DAF."''AllMusic Guide to Electronica: the definitive guide to electronic music'', p114. Vladimir Bogdanov, ed., 2001. Backbeat Books. . ''Trouser Press'', contrastingly, considers that the album "perfects the advances of Alles ist gut". Simon Reynolds, in '' Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978–1984'', describes it as touching on themes of alchemy Alchemy (from the Arabic word , ) is an anc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
