Disco Inferno (band)

Disco Inferno were a rock band from London.

The band is considered next to Bark Psychosis as one of those for the English by the music press, the label post-rock was created. Here, their beginnings were well within the normal range "normal", although good quality indie rock.

Band History

Ian Crause, Daniel Gish, Rob Whatley and Paul Willmott formed the band in 1989 in east London. However, Gish left the band soon and joined Bark Psychosis on. The other three members toured locally a few spectators and participated in 1990 in the small record company Che Records released their first single on entertainment. This was followed by the album Open Doors, Closed Windows and EP Science. All three releases were good and the audience almost not taken up by the trade press.

At the same time, according to Open Doors, Closed Windows of the most prominent incision made in the musical style of the group. Until then she used a style somewhere between Joy Division, New Order, The Cure and U2, but certainly with a distinctive sound. But in 1992, appeared the EP Summer 's Last Sound, from the Disco Inferno as one of the verkanntesten, most unsuccessful, in retrospect, however, should be the most original and perhaps even the most important bands of the 90s.

The band had begun to increasingly use electronic instruments. However, they went beyond the usual framework of joint Gitarren-/Keyboard-Bands go far. They took sounds from their environment, such as birdsong, running water, traffic, voices, etc., the signals processed digitally and not used simply as samples to synthesizers, but left their traditional instruments of the samples run. They reached such a hitherto ( and until today ) unheard sound. Melodies appeared, in many songs just as rhythmically backed fragments were accompanied by over samples played instruments. Ian Crause noticed sometime mutatis mutandis, Disco Inferno would have been the only band who devoted himself full of ( digital ) technology and basically still remained a guitar band.

The years 1992 to 1994 saw a number of experimentally oriented EPs and, ultimately, the second album DI Go Pop, probably one of the albums in pop history, making its name the least honor. With EP A Rock to Cling To ( 1993), the band moved to Rough Trade Records. It is these recordings, from Summer 's Last Sound (1992 ) on DI Go Pop ( 1994) up to It's a Kids World (1994 ) that established the reputation of Disco Inferno as a sample pioneers and sound hobbyists in the early 90s. Most of the pieces are dominated by mostly pretty barren and unusual soundscapes that evoke equally associations of gloom, beauty, fragility, desperation and joy. On some EPs but there was always pieces that externally recalled their early and strongly to New Order at least. These " bursts " are usually interpreted as attempts, but to attract the attention of a wider audience still.

In 1996 the album Technicolour. This was followed stylistically largely to its predecessors, but offered little that is really new and exciting. Trying to finally have success is to hear very clearly from the images. The pieces are more accessible, less fragmented, more melodic and more obviously to commercially successful bands such as New Order, REM and the Beach Boys -oriented. Nevertheless, it leaves nothing in terms of experimentation and progressiveness of the sound image, the most recordings of time far behind. Success with the listeners stood still few, while the criticisms of the music press were often enthusiastic.

Soon after the release of Disco Inferno Technicolour be disbanded, perhaps most notably because of persistent failure. 1999 appeared The Mixing It Session EP, the artistically but this is not more climax.

Ian Crause has operated the project Floorshow by Disco Inferno and released the single " Elemental" ( Tugboat Records) in 2000.

Disco Inferno (band)

Band History

Discography

Albums

EPs

Singles

Compilations