Accessory (band)

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Accessory
Accessory on November 2, 2008 at the Tochka Club in Moscow
Accessory on November 2, 2008 at the Tochka Club in Moscow
General information
origin Chemnitz , Germany
Genre (s) Synth-pop , electro
founding 1994 as Voices of Darkness
Website www.accessorymusic.de
Current occupation
Dirk Steyer
Mike Koenigsberger
former members
Kay Resch
Keyboard, sampler , synthesizer
 Jukka Sandeck
Vocals, keyboard, sampler, synthesizer
 Ivo Lottig

Accessory is a German synth-pop / electro band founded by Dirk Steyer and Kay Resch. The current line-up consists of Dirk Steyer and Mike Koenigsberger. In its early days, the band was on tour with And One , Terminal Choice and Hocico, among others , and gained increasing popularity as a result.

history

The band was founded in 1994 by Dirk Steyer and Kay Resch under the name Voices of Darkness and renamed Accessory in 1996 . In the same year the demo tape Electronic Controlled Mind was released by the band itself and in 1997 on the small label SD-IMAGE . Another tape laid by the band itself was released in 1998 with Injection .

Ivo Lottig joined the band at the end of 1999 and together they went on a three-week tour of Germany with And One in the spring of 2000 . Shortly thereafter, Kay Resch left the band to pursue his own career and was replaced by Jukka Sandeck as a new third man. Resch returned in 2001 as a lighting technician and technician.

The first official album Jukka2147.de was released in February 2001 on the Out of Line label. Immediately afterwards, the band went on another tour of Germany with Terminal Choice . At the end of 2001 the EP Deadline was published. In spring 2002, the live album Live./Hammer was created on an international five-week tour with Hocico . At the same time the live CD … And I Say "Go" , limited to 100 copies , was released. Since this was sold out very quickly, the single I Say Go was released in late 2002 . After the release of the second album Titan in May 2003, Jukka Sandeck left the band to pursue his solo career. The time up to the release of the next album Forever and Beyond in April 2005 the band spent with live concerts, among others in Israel, Italy and Germany.

After that, the band only performed sporadically, including at the WGT 2006, as Dirk Steyer completed a one-year training as a sound engineer. This break ended with the release of the song Ewigkeit in spring 2007 and the EP Holy Machine in August 2007. After the release, Ivo Lottig leaves the band and is replaced by Mike Koenigsberger.

In April 2008, the new line-up will release the double album More Than Machinery , which will stay in the German Alternative Charts for eight weeks and with which they will embark on a four-week US tour.

As part of the Electronic Transformers Tour 2015, the band played a few concerts in Germany at the end of 2015.

Discography

Demos

  • 1996: Electronic Controlled Mind
  • 1998: Injection

Albums

  • 1997: Electronic Controlled Mind
  • 2001: Jukka2147.de
  • 2002: Live./Hammer
  • 2003: Titan
  • 2005: Forever & Beyond
  • 2008: More Than Machinery
  • 2011: Underbeat
  • 2013: Resurrection

EPs and singles

  • 2001: Futurewave
  • 2003: deadline
  • 2002: ... And I Say "Go"
  • 2002: I Say Go
  • 2007: Holy Machine

Sampler

  • 2005: Awake The Machines Vol. 5 - Never (short version)
  • 2008: Synthetic Reign Volume One - Heartattack

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Formerly Electro, today Kirmestechno. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 23, 2015 ; accessed on November 23, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.medienkonverter.de
  2. ↑ a b album on Discogs. Retrieved November 19, 2015 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e Last.fm German band page. Retrieved November 24, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Last.fm English band page. Retrieved November 24, 2015 .
  5. ^ Metropolis Records band page. Retrieved November 19, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Electronic Transformers Tour 2015 - concert list. Retrieved November 24, 2015 .