Die Warzau

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Die Warzau, (originally referred to as Die Warzau Synfony), is an industrial music band formed in 1987 by performance artists Jim Marcus and Van Christie.

History

 Originally signed to Chris Parry's Fiction Records, the group released Disco Rigido in the late 1980s.

A second album, Big Electric Metal Bass Face, was released in the early 1990s. Contributors to the band at the time included Chris Vrenna and James Woolley (both members of Nine Inch Nails during the mid-1990s), and audio visual artist Burle Avant, who went on to co-create the MTV television series Amp.

Engine, a 1995 release on Wax TraxTVT, was the last album the group released before going on hiatus for almost a decade, and included contributions from Chris Randall of the band Sister Machine Gun. One of the songs written by Die Warzau during this time, "Hole In the Ground," ended up on the SMG album Burn.

Die Warzau as a group then went on hiatus for a number of years, with Marcus and Christie working on other projects. Jim Marcus founded the pure funk group Everplastic while Van Christie worked on another projct called Eco-Hed.

In 2004, the duo re-united, together with new members Abel Garibaldi and Dan Evans, releasing Convenience on their Chicago-based label Pulseblack Records.

2008 saw the release of Vinyl 88, a collection of remixes and previously unreleased tracks including "Gone Again" (for which a controversial video was released) and "Hitler's Brain", a collaboration with funk pioneer George Clinton. While some of the tracks had seen prior release, many of the remixes featured re-recorded elements.

In 2009, Die Warzau made several songs - many from the recent Convenience and Vinyl 88 releases - available for remixing at »RemixGalaxy.com The different musical elements (vocals, drums, bass, etc.) of each song are available as separate tracks, which allows fans (and/or budding remixers) the opportunity to create their own versions of the songs or incorporate the parts into their own original tracks under personal, non-commercial license.

Discography

Disco Rigido (1989)

 1. Welcome to America
2. Man Is Meat
3. Jack Hammer
4. Bodybag
5. Sexus
6. Money After All
7. Strike to the Body
8. I've Got to Make Sense
9. National Security
10. Shake Down
11. Tear It Down
12. Bodybag »Edit[Dub]
13. Free Radio Africa
14. Tagata en Situ
15. Cross Burning, Pt. 2
16. Land of the Free

Big Electric Metal Bass Face (1991)

1. Crack Radio
2. Funkopolis
3. Never Again
4. Shock Box
5. Brand New Convertible Car
6. Burning
7. All Cut Up
8. Coming Down »Live
9. My Pretty Little Girlfriend
10. Red All Over
11. Pig City
12. Dying in Paradise
13. Suck It Up
14. Head

Engine (1995)

1. Missing It
2. Liberated
3. Lizardoplacentis
4. Muck
5. Cyberdelia Non Corborundum
6. Grounded
7. Heoinad
8. Belly
9. Ultraplanet
10. Pughead (Badacidanimals)
11. Allgoodgirls
12. Material
13. Shakespeare
14. Amphibious
15. America

Convenience (2004)

1. Crusaders
2. Go Going Gone
3. Permission
4. Radiation Babies
5. Glare
6. Bliss
7. Linoleum
8. Superbuick
9. Terrorform
10. Curious
11. Gone Chemical
12. Kleen
13. King of Rock and Roll
14. Come as You Are
15. As We Are so We Are
16. Shine

Vinyl88 - Not the Best of Die Warzau (2008)

1. Insect
2. Land of the Free
3. Born Again
4. All Good Girls
5. Glare
6. Funkopolis
7. Crusaders
8. Welcome to America
9. Coming Down
10. Kleen
11. Last Generation
12. All Cut Up
13. Nitelight
14. Smacktime
15. Permission
16. Hitler's Brain

Trivia

  • Both Christopher Hall (Stabbing Westward The Dreaming) and Chris Vrenna were members at one point.
  • Kevin Temple (Sister Machine Gun, Apartment 26) was a member during the Engine era.
  • Warzone Recorders was started by Van Christie and Jim Marcus in part of Cabrini Green Housing Projects
»Sonic Boom Interview

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