Some news about Container 90, Sturm Café, Kommando XY, SPARK!, and Franz Riss or Stakkato

Whoever thought that this new wave of old school ebm wasn't to stay, was wrong!

Today (which is 24, October), the good old stomping masters of Container 90 release a new album "World ChampionShit". Sure, they sold themselves out to Out Of Line records, and no longer can we quote the intro to their previous album: "we are no fucking sell-out", and there being no future.. But who cares now? We have another nice album from punk-influenced Swedish EBM masters. I will follow this up with a review of World ChampionShit once I get it.

More new Swedish stuff to come. Sturm Café and Kommando XY are working on new material and have finished quite some of it apparently, and by the end of this year there should be albums released from both. There are concerts lined up for both in Germany (5th and 6th December), so one can hope for the albums to be released before that time.

SPARK! are also working. Early 2009 should be the time for their new album. So far you can hear a new song on their myspace.

And more EBM news, as if this was some nice news channel. Franz Riss has a new project called Stakkato, and has moved some of his new songs under that name, probably because of style differences between the new material and the debute album. Both those bands are side-projects from Jäger 90. Stakkato is releasing a CDR album right here.

You can also hear song samples there. Stakkato should appeal alot to fans of DAF, especially newer material. It is not as hard hitting stomping as a typical anhalt EBM band, but extremely good nonetheless. Hear for yourself!

SPARK! (a short notice)

A short notice about SPARK!, just in case someone is unaware or generally lonely this Saturday night and feel like taking a flight to Stockholm (unless they already live there) to experience nice Swedish hard beating old school EBM.

SPARK! are playing live at Bodytåget XI. Behold the flyer:


http://www.sugarbar.se/

I will add an article about SPARK! sometime soon.

FRONTAL

More good stuff from Germany!


Also a new band with one debut album released on Electric Tremor: here goes FRONTAL! The album is called EBM Freundschaft and presents proper old school inspired EBM with a tiny bit of more modern sound (naturally). Don't misunderstand "modern sound", this is by no means similar to modern EBM bands. FRONTAL stays true to the old school and should appeal to all fans of such.

FRONTAL is German, minimal but very strong, often catchy, and expressive. The vocals are unique (instead of describing I will let you listen for yourself - look for the link below). The band is as superb live as it is on the album - the performance on Familientreffen IV was great and charismatic (with Franz Riss).



"Beweg dich" !!!

The album EBM Freundschaft (which in addition to ten great tracks also includes a cover from Jäger 90 and Zentrum Der Arbeit) can be purchased from Electric Tremor or Zero01one.

Listen to FRONTAL songs on their Myspace page. I also borrowed all images in this post from there!

The band is as mentioned new and truly promising and I hope to hear much more in the future!

- EBM Freundschaft; EBM Musik!!

A.D.A.C 8286

One of the many new bands from Germany!



A.D.A.C 8286 is extra old school ebm and electropunk, with their first album release 13th June 2008 (which also was the starting date for Familientreffen IV festival - entirely 100% old school and anhalt ebm festival in Sandersleben, Germany), where the band also played live.

















A.D.A.C 8286 can sometimes seem more hardcore in sound, slightly more heavy and punk than a typical electronic body music band. A little bit more straight-forward and agressive. However it remains firmly within old school and anhalt emb style. The band, with two different vocals, makes music about life, girls, work, factory, muscle, cars, and so on. One thing is that I don't know what A.D.A.C 8286 means literarily, anyone who knows feel free to comment or e-mail.


"Move your arms like a generator!"

You can listen to A.D.A.C 8286 songs here: http://www.myspace.com/adac8286

All the photos in this blog also come from their myspace page.

Their first album "Straight On" can be purchased on Electric Tremor shop: http://www.electric-tremor.org/shop/

KROPP

The first band to receive attention here shall be KROPP. Meaning "BODY" in Swedish, it is an entirely new band.



How many worship the old Nitzer Ebb? So Bright So Strong, or particularly That Total Age album ? After listening to it to death and more, one might want to hear something similar, but the truth is, nor the old nor the new ebm music inspired by the old ever managed to pull of an album filled with such energy.

KROPP sounds as a tribute to the old Nitzer Ebb, particularly in the vocals, even if it isn't equally energy-filled as That Total Age. There will be a link below to the band's Myspace page and you can hear for yourself. Many will recognize McCarthy's vocals in it. Otherwise KROPP presents proper old school ebm, which should appeal to everyone loving the old.

The band is on demo stage at this moment (summer, 2008). One demo release has been released last year, but it almost didn't have any vocals. The real thing with KROPP is the new unreleased tracks that you will find on Myspace. The bad thing is that not all songs are present there.. But they surely can be acquired in one way or another.


One special thing with KROPP is that it is entirely 100% Swedish, and the lyrics aren't about machines, factories, war and work.. In fact it often is the opposite - kissing, love, and who your heart beats for. But when that heart beat for that special someone is presented in raw old school sound, inspired by probably one of the strongest vocals of this planet (AUGH!!!!) and very hard beats..

Judge for yourself!

http://www.myspace.com/kroppmusik


I will keep it up posted here in case any news or new tracks arrive.