Drop Dead Festival is the showcase for the best original old and new post-punk, weird electro, mutant wave, deathrock, billy and related bands and DJs.
Drop Dead Festival believe in bringing together the most creative and interesting bands regardless of how obscure. Because many of the best independent, weirder and art related bands get no exposure and are not well known, this festival take this opportunity to bring them together during this one big festival.
The festival takes place from the 1st till 6th September 2011 at Berlin, in the legendary Maria Ostbahnhof Club, Stralauer Platz 33-34.
Spaces used will also include Club Joseph and Club Jacky within Maria complex.
Performing bands will be :
Phoenix Catscratchi
Schwefelgelb
Charles De Goal
Scream Club
†13th MOON†
Velvet Condom
Sewn Leather
Mueran Humanosv
king dude
Noisy Pig
Aniaetleprogrammeur
Popoi Sdioh
BLOODYGRAVE
Die Selektion
Birth!
Lebanon Hanover
Jemek Jemowit)
Bloodygrave & Die Lust
Kombat Katz
The Echo Vamper
Bitluder
And more to be announced
We know, this will only delight our readers in Northern Europe, but still...
Front Line Assembly announced that they will be playing some dates over there.
You can see them in :
26.08. Gothenburg
27.08. Stockholm,
28.08. Copenhagen
30.08. Hamburg
This gives us also the opportunity to inform you that since February, the Neotek-label has re-released as digital release their cult classic "Brain over Muscle".
Somewhere in 1993 Apoptygma Berzerk released their debut "Soli Deo Gloria" and still today, songs like "Bitch", "Spiritual Reality" or "Burning Heretics" belong to each club's playlist worldwide.
And now, 18 years later, Black Rain announces that this masterpiece of dark dancemusic will be released as exclusive Double-Picture LP.
In addition to the regular tracklist, this special limited edition also adds the tracks "Seven Signs" (taken from the MCD "Bitch") and "Lidelsens Mening" (taken from the CD "Apocalyptic Manifesto").
This LP also contains the ultra-rare live recordings from 17th December 1994 in Lund - it is the first time that these recordings are officially released.
Also out is a special packaging for this exlusive release: the collector´s edition includes a certificate, the sold-out Picture-LP "7" (also on Black Rain) and enough room for further Apoptygma Berzerk Picture-LP releases.
This box is strictly limited to 500 copies.
Lots of news from the Enfant Terrible-front.
Not only are there the releases of both Doxa Sinistra and Sololust, but also new are two 7 inches on the Hex Grammofoonplaten sublabel.
First there is the debut by Spanish weird pop act Artifecal, limited to two times 75 copies.
Next to that there is the last Kania Tieffer record ever... which is a split with her new project Family Jewels... so the burial of Kania Tieffer and the birth of Family Jewels on one piece of vinyl... limited to 250 copies.
The label also informs us about the Enfant Terrble-night. 4th of June this will go ahead at Gifgrond in Tilburg, Holland.
You will be served livegigs from Staatseinde, Red The Planeeet and Devon Disaster, in other words a night of weird pop and elektro trash.
More info about this event on Enfant Terrible's homepage.
Just in time for his planned live performance at the 20th anniversary Wave-Gothik-Treffen in Leipzig, Marita Schreck will release a Best of compilation called „disko grammophon" on the Zwickau based Label "Zone 30 Records".
The disc will contain old tracks formerly released on Black Channel Records as well as 5 brand new songs!.
In recent years the only chance to get this music was with bad quality, via the internet. But now you can finally get the best tracks from the last 10 years released for the first time on CD.
Especially for new listeners there are the old releases „Schlagwerkorgien" and „Anti-Sound" and 3 titles from the vinyls „…und jeden Tag ein Mienenfeld" and „Keiner kommt hier lebend raus" plus 5 new exclusive and previously unreleased tracks!
Included on this disc :
01. Keiner kommt hier lebend raus! ***
02. Taxi ins Wummerland ***
03. Serpent my name ****
04. Pfirsichblut *
05. Kriegsspiele *
06. Knochengestört **
07. Jeanny 3 **
08. Fiebertransport **
09. Elektrischer Reiter 2 **
10. Full Metal Jacket *
11. Suicide ****
12. Das Einhorn lebt! *
13. I see you baby ****
14. Staub ****
15. Blut-Wal-Tod ****
* 1997 album „Schlagwerkorgien"
** 1999 album „Anti-Sound"
*** 2005 12" Picture Vinyl EP „Keiner kommt hier lebend raus!"
**** 2006-2009 previously unreleased tracks
