Re-release of DAF’s 2nd album, originally released in 1980 on MUTE RECORDS - It was actually the first album EVER released on Mute Records, a label that was climbing to world success later with bands such as Fad Gadget, Depeche Mode, Yazoo, Nick Cave…
Side A and the first track of side B are studio recordings produced by legendary Conny Plank. The remainder of side B is a live recording from the Electric Ballroom, Camden Town, London. The Allmusic Guide to Electronica notes its influence: "it helped not merely in establishing the group's cachet, but the label's and, in turn, the whole genre of experimental electronic music in the '80s and beyond."
Trouser Press notes the band's movement from industrial noise toward modern dance: "Material is more polished, with anarchic synthesizer work slowly integrating a solid, defined beat." Simon Reynolds, in ‘Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978–1984’, describes it as "brilliant and sinister".
Released 2022 by Gronland.
Tracks:
A1. Osten währt am Längsten
A2. Essen dann schlafen
A3. Co Co Pino
A4. Kinderfunk
A5. Nacht Arbeit
A6. Ich gebe Dir ein Stück von mir
A7. De Panne
B1. Gewalt
B2. Gib's mir
B3. Auf Wiedersehen
B4. Das ist Liebe
B5. Was ist eine Welle
B6. Anzufassen und Anzufassen
B7. Volkstanz
B8. Die lustigen Stiefel
B9. Die Kleinen und die Bösen
B10. Die fesche Lola
B11. El Basilon
B12. Y la Gracia
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