Danse Macabre (label)

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Danse Macabre Records
Active years since 1989
founder Bruno Kramm , Norbert Juhas
Seat Wirsberg , Germany
Website www.dansemacabre.de
Label code LC 06249
Sub-label Biohazzard Records
Genre (s) Futurepop , Hellektro , New German Hardness , Alternative Rock , Dark Wave , Dark Electro , New German Death Art

Danse Macabre Records is a music label in Potsdam . It gained fame with its publications, especially in the early 1990s, at a time when the German dark wave movement was experiencing a significant boom.

background

The early years

The Danse Macabre label was founded in Bayreuth in 1989. Bruno Kramm ( Das Ich ) and Norbert Juhas were among the founding members, and Horst Braun, Oswald Henke ( Goethe's heirs ), Regina Mayer, Stefan Pickl, Stefan Ackermann (Das Ich) and Gesine Finder joined the team. The label mainly produced dark wave and electro bands such as Relatives Mensch sein , Placebo Effect , yelworC , Goethes Erben, kAlte fArben , Printed at Bismarck's Death and Das Ich, Bruno Kramm's own band, which produced some demo tapes as early as 1989 and sent to various record companies.

Starting in 1990, the label began to publish music cassettes on a regular basis, later supplemented with records and compact discs. The first official production was Der Spiegel, whose path leads to the end of Goethe's heirs through silent witnesses . The counting of the catalog numbers starts with "08"; all previous 7 productions are not part of the label catalog.

What was noticeable for the label was the number of artists whose main focus was on setting German-language texts to music. The genre that arose from this was defined by Horst Braun and the music journalist Svenjoy as the New German Art of Death and quickly received in the press, in particular by the independent magazine Zillo .

Shutdown

After a few years it came to a financial failure, the label seemed to dissolve and most of the contracts were dissolved. Ultimately, in 1994, Danse Macabre's label activities were put on hold and kept alive only for Das Ich releases . The studio, the nucleus of the label, was expanded and, under Bruno Kramm's direction, was largely responsible for chart-listed productions such as Atrocity with Werk 80 and Savior Machine with Legends. Other employees were Ingo Beitz, Eva Istok, Nils Röhl, Torsten Salchow and Jörg Hüttner.

reactivation

Bruno Kramm reactivated the label in 2005. Since then, it has primarily been devoted to techno , pop and dance- oriented music such as futurepop or Hellektro or groups from the metal and alternative rock environment. Bands currently working with the label are (besides Das Ich) Shadow Minds , Compulsory Skin , Geist , Metallspühunde , Rozencrantz , Seelenzorn , Soul in Sadness , Treibhaus , Sanity Obscure , Oberer Totpunkt , Concrete / Rage , Nova-Spes , Logic & Olivia , Schwarzer Schnee and The Snatcher .

Sub-labels

Biohazzard Records is one of Danse Macabre's sub- labels (alongside TS-Musix and afmusic ).

Publications by Danse Macabre

Cassettes, LPs & CDs

  • 1990: Goethe's heirs - Der Spiegel, the path of which leads to the end through silent witnesses
  • 1990: The Self - Satanic Verses
  • 1990: Fahrenheit 451 - Nowhere Land
  • 1990: Le Coup Sauvage - Le Diarrhée Premier
  • 1990: The Preachers of Sadness - Serious Thoughts
  • 1990: Goethes Erben - Live
  • 1990: V / A sampler
  • 1990: The Preachers Of Sadness - Time To Cry
  • 1990: Impossible Zest - First Zest
  • 1990: Scorched Earth - Scorched Earth
  • 1990: Placebo Effect - Gargoyles
  • 1990: Spitfire STC - Exhaustion
  • 1990: The Electric Avantgarde -?
  • 1990: The Red Badge Of Courage - Into The Past
  • 1991: The I - The Prophets (CD / LP / MC)
  • 1991: Operating Strategies - Solstice Garden
  • 1991: yelworC - Tanata $
  • 1990: V / A - Danse Macabre Sampler Part I (CD / LP / MC)
  • 1991: The Red Badge Of Courage - Outrace The Gas
  • 1991: Ghosting - Black Romantic
  • 1991: Relative humanity - morality
  • 1992: Placebo Effect - The Gallery Of Pain (CD / LP / MC)
  • 1992: Operating Strategies - The Difficulty Of Being (CD / MC)
  • 1992: Relative Human Being - Fallen Angels (CD / MC)
  • 1992: kalte fArben - trust (CD / MC)
  • 1992: Endraum - rose garden
  • 1992: Elephant vs. Bromley - ... They Are Two Million Years Old
  • 1992: Christian Wolz - El Castata (CD / MC)
  • 1992: Mental Inquisition - Hilarious
  • 1992: Sabotage Qu'est-Ce Que C'est - Le Triangle Noir
  • 1993: V / A - Danse Macabre Sampler II (CD / MC / LP)
  • 1993: Christian Wolz - Devil Mestra intra de la fore (CD / MC)
  • 1993: TILT! - The Next Degeneration (CD / MC)
  • 1993: The Happy Cadavres - Soul Binder (CD / MC)
  • 1993: SABOTAGE - Tumults (CD)
  • 1993: Endraum - In flickering night (CD / MC)
  • 1993: Kyoto Blue - Kyoto Prayers (CD)
  • 1993: Christian Wolz - COR (CD / MC)
  • 1993: The I - dust (CD / MC)
  • 1994: The Fire of Me (CD / MC)
  • 1994: Ichor - Spasm (CD)
  • 1995: Ichor - nonplus ... les odalisques de satan (CD)
  • 1996: Das Ich - Das Inner Ich (CD) [Soundtrack]
  • 1998: Das Ich - Morgue (CD)
  • 2000: Das Ich - relaborat (CD)
  • 2000: Das Ich - reanimat (CD)

CDs (from relaunch)

  • 2005: Various artists - Danse Macabre Sampler Vol.3
  • 2005: Metal Sniffer Dogs - Blood and Games
  • 2005: Selfless - Conjunction
  • 2005: Greenhouse - Immortal
  • 2005: Soul Wrath - Kill Everything
  • 2005: PTYL - Hell Sounds
  • 2005: Xtra-X - Clubtraxks Vol.1
  • 2006: Harmonia Mundi Compilation - Latin America
  • 2006: Snow White - No Pain
  • 2006: Metal Sniffer Dogs - Amok Man
  • 2006: Sin Seduction - Embrace the Darkness
  • 2006: Xtra-X - Clubtraxks Vol.2
  • 2006: Greenhouse - enemy image
  • 2006: Harmonia Mundi Compilation - Israel
  • 2007: The I - Addendum
  • 2007: Soul Wrath - Merciless Wrath
  • 2007: Compulsory Skin - Naked To The Bones
  • 2007: Pecadores - 10% for Jesus
  • 2007: Spirit - For All Time
  • 2007: Rozencrantz - Salvation
  • 2008: Long Walk Home - Youism
  • 2008: Beati Mortui - All but dreams will die
  • 2008: Felsenreich - Innocence
  • 2008: Snow White - pearls before pigs
  • 2008: Noctiferia - Slovenska Morbida
  • 2008: Otto Dix - Starost
  • 2008: The I - cannibal
  • 2008: The beauty of gemina - A stranger to tears
  • 2008: Soul in Sadness - ZwischenWelt
  • 2008: Contrast - Vision and Tradition
  • 2008: Top dead center - 10 degrees before TDC
  • 2008: Scarelett - Vs.U
  • 2009: Dark Diamonds - The Poison
  • 2009: Ignis Fatuu - Let there be light
  • 2009: The SlimP - Wavelands
  • 2009: Shadow-Minds - Extend The Line (Rebuild edition)
  • 2009: Top dead center - Earth is calling
  • 2009: Concrete / Rage - Chaos Nation
  • 2009: Sanity Obscure - Springtime's Masquerade
  • 2009: Z-Effector - Between XII o'clock
  • 2010: My Friend Skeleton - Vanitas
  • 2010: Top Dead Center - Silent Zoo
  • 2010: Faith and the Muse -: ankoku butoh:
  • 2010: Blind Effects - Heartland Sound Formation
  • 2010: XMH - State Of Mind
  • 2010: Christ vs. Warhol - Resist
  • 2010: Beati Mortui - Let The Funeral Begin
  • 2010: Eyes Shut Tight - Secret Destroyer
  • 2010: Roman Rain - Roman Rain
  • 2010: Defense Mechanism - Invasion of the robotbrains from planet zero
  • 2010: Sharon Next - Fast farewell
  • 2010: This Drowning Man - Big faint lane
  • 2010: Das Ich - Antichrist Edition
  • 2010: Shadow-Minds - The Arc of Truth
  • 2011: Nova-Spes - Pripyat - home of lilith
  • 2011: Vic Anselmo - In My Fragile
  • 2011: Eyes Shut Tight - Fairground Zero
  • 2012: Nova-Spes - life is war
  • 2013: The Flood - In Love Or Despair
  • 2014: Top dead center - desideratum
  • 2014: Nova-Spes - Black Sheep On White Fields
  • 2016: Nova-Spes - A Dog And His Boy
  • 2017: Top dead center - neuroses bloom
  • 2018: Dorsetshire - Timemachine
  • 2019: The Snatcher - Your Demon
  • 2019: Black Snow - Shards of Souls

Biohazzard Records releases

  • 2006: Eisenfunk - radio remote controlled
  • 2006: Sanity Obscure - Resurrection
  • 2007: Silence - the badtime stories ep
  • 2007: Eisenfunk - Eisenfunk
  • 2007: adoptedCHILD - loved-killed
  • 2008: Agapesis - Sacrilege
  • 2008: MUMM! - head \\ shot
  • 2008: Piscide - elekktroshokk
  • 2008: Sinnflut - Epic
  • 2008: The Bride - Invisible
  • 2008: Concrete / Rage - [un] natural
  • 2009: Silicon - Do I Not Fit Into Your Puzzle

Festivals

Label festivals

  • I. Danse Macabre Festival , CAT Café, Ulm, January 4, 1992
    Line-up : Le Coup Sauvage, Relatives Menschsein, Operating Strategies, The Red Badge of Courage, Placebo Effect
  • II. Danse Macabre Festival , Werk II , Leipzig, October 31, 1992
    Line-up : Das Ich, Placebo Effect, Relatives Mensch sein, Le Coup Sauvage, Printed at Bismarck's Death, Christian Wolz
  • III. Danse Macabre Festival (two month tour through Germany and Belgium), February 26, 1993 to April 17, 1993
    Line-up : Das Ich, Tilt !, Printed at Bismarck's Death, Kyoto Blue, Operating Strategies, Mental Inquisition, Endraum, Dorsetshire, Relatives Being human, Alva Novalis, The Happy Cadavres, Christian Wolz
  • IV. Danse Macabre Festival , Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 10, 1993
    Line-up : Das Ich, Christian Wolz, Sabotage Qu'Est-Ce Que C'Est ?, Endraum

In cooperation

  • I. Danse Macabre & Etage Records Festival : Nights of Dawn and Decay , Dance Macabre Dancehall, Bayreuth, 16. – 17. March 1991
    line-up : Das Ich, Catastrophe Ballet, Le Coup Sauvage, The Preachers of Sadness
  • II. Danse Macabre & Etage Records Festival , Bürgerhaus Stollwerck, Cologne, August 22, 1992 as part of the Popkomm
    line-up : Printed at Bismarck's Death, Das Ich, Catastrophe Ballet, Goethes Erben
  • I. Dark Wave Night ( Sub Line Festival feat. Danse Macabre Records), Kaue, Gelsenkirchen, November 14, 1992
    Line-up : Das Ich, Relatives Mensch sein, Killing all lust

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Danse Macabre Records. Accessed May 15, 2019 (German).