Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft
The German American Friendship, also known by the acronym DAF, is a band from Wuppertal and Dusseldorf. The band is counted by some music critics alongside Kraftwerk and Can the world's most influential groups in the field of electronic music.
- 3.1 Singles
- 3.2 albums
History
The band was formed in 1978 in Wuppertal by the trained in classical and jazz Robert Görl (drums, electronics), the musical autodidact Gabriel " Gabi " Delgado - López ( vocals), Kurt " Pyrolator " Dahlke ( electronic, later, among others, in the plan, false color and A Certain Frank ), Michael Kemner (bass, later the false color and Mau Mau ) and Wolfgang Spelmanns (guitar, later founded Mau Mau ). Even the precursor band was rehearsing in the old You " morgue " the nationally famous socio-cultural center, the exchange in Wuppertal. Chrislo Haas ( electronics ( Korg MS -20), bass, saxophone; Liaisons Dangereuses later ) replaced Kurt Dahlke 1979, before the group finally fell in 1981 during a tour of England to the core Robert Görl / Gabi Delgado - Lopez, the image, the or concept of group newly designed fixed and thus were commercially successful.
DAF are considered pioneers and inspiration for the genre Electro Punk, Electronic Body Music and techno. The years 1980 to 1982 as well as the albums The little ones and the bad, and everything is well are deemed to be highlights, for all is well they received the German Record Prize.
They sat as one of the first bands to a Roland TB -303 synthesizer against the instructions for the production of chirping bass lines and were the model for the later acid house wave.
1979-1981 start-up phase
1979, before the recording of the first plate A product of German -American friendship, vocalist Gabi Delgado - Lopez, the band, but returned then back again. Accordingly, the board is also an instrumental work. A product of the German - American Friendship consists of 22 untitled instrumentals, often only seconds. The plate demonstrated the dawn will of the German punk and New Wave end of 1970er/Anfang 1980s. The album was released on the label warning of keyboardist Kurt " Pyrolator " Dahlke, which later changed little in Ata Tak and one of the most influential early NDW label was ( among other things, the plan, Andreas Dorau and Pyrolator ). Kurt Dahlke left the band, as DAF decided after the conclusion of the contract with Virgin to go to the UK and to seek international success. He was replaced Chrislo Haas ( electronics, bass, saxophone; Liaisons Dangereuses later ), which soon together with Robert Görl introduced the so known for DAF sequencer sound. With this label, the new lineup released in the same year the singles kebab dreams and I and the reality, shortly after Michael Kemner climbed out DAF and shrank to a quartet Robert Görl / Gabi Delgado-López/Chrislo Haas / Wolfgang Spelmanns.
In 1980, the combo achieved his international breakthrough with the album The little ones and the bad ones. Her style (reduction of coming to use musical instruments, unusual synthesizer sounds, monotonous chant, partly provocative Dadaist seeming texts) influenced the German New Wave prevail.
The LP was divided into a studio A side was added to Konrad " Conny " Plank's studio (including Kraftwerk, NEU! , Ultravox ) and a live B-side, recorded at London club The Electric Ballroom, where they the opening act occurred from Wire and this, says Robert Görl, " played on the wall ." The little ones and the bad ones appeared at the London Mute Records label by Daniel Miller.
Following a joint tour Görl Robert and Gabi Delgado - Lopez Chrislo Haas and Wolfgang Spelmanns pushed out of the band in order to realize a significantly reduzierteres concept.
1981-1982: The phase Delgado-López/Görl
So DAF shrank the final "classic " Instrumentation: The following album All is well and the succession albums gold and Love and Forever from the years 1981 and 1982 brought the final global commercial and artistic breakthrough. Some of the songs, The Mussolini ( "Dance the Mussolini " ), for example, the homoerotic play The Robber and the Prince, Reach for the Stars, The gods are white or a little war were lyrically provocative. Matching the song was also their image. Just The Mussolini and their occurrence in the leather outfit and short, shaved haircut as a " Germanic counterpart to Grace Jones " brought them over and over again reproaches one to be fascists. The lyrics, which did not shrink from worn vocabulary of pop kitsch, home movies and Nazi mythology, reinforced this allegation. DAF have their political stance in the media never clearly defined. You mentioned only that their stylistic range would " at least from the anarcho- skin to disco - Nazi " rich and that they " are just too pleasurable for fascists."
1982-1986: Resolution, solo activities
As appeared Forever, DAF had already dissolved. Robert Görl and Gabi Delgado - Lopez published with Night Full of Tension and Mistress 1983 English-language solo albums.
Robert Görl took over at Night Full of Tension addition to its function as a multi- instrumentalist for the first time the vocal part and delivered from a solid, but surprise poor synth - pop album. Vocally, he was supported by Annie Lennox of the Eurythmics, a consideration for Görls drumming on their '81 debut album, In the Garden. The album was released again on Mute Records.
Gabi Delgado created with Mistress a radio or jazz album, aided by session musicians. Was published, which consists of six songs album at Virgin.
1986-2003: 1st Step to Heaven, Solo Activities
1986 DAF was reactivated by two to produce the English, held in the disco sound album 1st Step to Heaven specifically for the American market. Both Görl and Delgado -Lopez served on this album, the instruments and took over the vocals, with doubtful result: Only the song Absolute Body Control was able to continue the level of previous pioneering work, critics and fans reacted largely negatively on the album. After that DAF parted again and Gabi Delgado who held the rights to the DAF name along with Klaus Jankuhn, took ( Musical partner of DJ Westbam ) as a replacement for Robert Görl 1987, the maxi-single The Gun on which the first German house- plate at all true. Virgin threw 1988 Best of DAF on the market, which only included the classics of the duo from the years 1981-1982 and Görl and Delgado - Lopez were active as DJs and solo artists in the house / techno area, but could not by far the most attention reach the DAF had always. 1996-1999 published Delgado - López with the well-known as an actor Wotan Wilke Möhring as DAF / DOS two albums, the " DOS" in the name is often taken as the Spanish word for "two", or " DAF 2 ".
2003-2006: Fifteen new DAF -Lieder, last resolution
2003 knüpften the now converted to Buddhism Robert Görl and Gabi Delgado with the single The Sheriff and the comeback album Fifteen new DAF -Lieder technically sound back to the early 80s and went on a world tour. 2004 died Chrislo Haas in Berlin.
In November 2005, Gabi Delgado -Lopez stated that he was not interested on a new album to work on further performances with DAF. This meant that now the third resolution of the band. The sequences and songs that Robert Görl had already been created for possible further DAF publications, he has a solo album - at least partially - be recorded. End of May 2006, he released the first single Strange Love.
2007: DAF.Partei, the revival
2007, there was an extraordinary revival: Robert Görl won Thoralf Dietrich, singer of the minimal electronic band Hunter 90, into the boat. With it, he performed at the anniversary festival marking the fifth anniversary of the EBM - based concert organizer Electric Tremor Dessau in spring 2007 under the name DAF.Partei on. Thoralf Dietrich took the part of Gabi Delgado - Lopez and Robert Görl traditionally sat on drums. For this concert, the original backing tape of the DAF - Tour from 1981 were used.
Görl and Dietrich are interested in further cooperation in the form of DAF.Partei. How this will look like, currently is not fixed yet.
Since 2008: New Reunion
On 13 August 2008 DAF played on the occasion of its 30th anniversary ribbon anniversary, a concert at the c / o pop ( Cologne On Pop ) festivals. Moreover, they were back on the road since 2010 and also played in 2011 and 2012 at various festivals.
For more information
- In the early days, the alternative pub GrünInn was in rural Gevelsberg - Silschede as the domicile of the band.
- After the England tour and reduction of the band from the quintet to duo 1980, Gabi Delgado -Lopez and Robert Görl took an apartment in London's Finsbury Park. From the most popular at that time among young people of this district clothing style they were inspired and styled by in Skinhead-/Rude-Boy-Look. Photos of them and their statements to have been documented in an interview with the German music magazine SOUNDS.
- Jürgen Teipel used the DAF song titles waste your youth for his documentary novel about the end of the 1970er/Anfang the 1980 launching " New German Wave".
- In the movie, Play It Loud DAF also occur. They are played by Denis Moschitto ( Delgado - López ) and Josef Heynert ( Görl ). DAF are represented both on the same CD compilation for the book, as well as on the actual film soundtrack.
- Under the title dance the Adolf Hitler, a line from the song The DAF Mussolini, published the movie and culture critic Georg Seeßlen in 1994 the first of two volumes of his overview Fascism in popular culture. A DAF expert is Seeßlen but not what another but false DAF quote in the book, namely, " Burn Your Youth" reveals.
- In the song land of morons the South Tyrolean band Frei.Wild there is the line: " We dance no Adolf Hitler, Mussolini not dance ... "