Leæther Strip

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Leæther Strip
Leæther Strip live at the E-tropolis Festival 2013
Leæther Strip live at the E-tropolis Festival 2013
General information
Genre (s) Electro , film music , EBM
founding 1988
Founding members
Claus Larsen
Former Live Members
Jesper Schmidt
Keyboard
 Peter Christensen

Leæther Strip is an electrical project from Vegger (about 35 km from Aalborg , Denmark ). It was founded in 1988 by Claus Larsen (born November 13, 1967 in Aalborg) and achieved particularly in Germany, Sweden and the USA through club hits such as Japanese Bodies , Evil Speaks , Don't Tame Your Soul , Leæther Strip Part II and Adrenalin Rush notoriety.

history

1981–1987: Pre-Leæther-Strip era

Larsen was born on November 13, 1967 in Aalborg, Denmark. He made his first steps in electronic music as a teenager: In 1981, at a Twice a Man concert, he met the synth-pop formation The Future , in which a schoolmate at the time was involved and who took on the support for Twice a Man. Larsen joined the band and increasingly dealt with the functionality of synthesizers, on which he preferably played synth bass lines.

At the beginning of 1982 Larsen began writing his first own songs. For this he first used a Moog Prodigy , a drum computer from Yamaha and a dual cassette recorder . Years later, he expanded this equipment with a Commodore 64 and the MIDI sequencer Pro 16 from Steinberg . Other stops in his early career were X Protex , Decode , Forbidden Art and West Way . Only Decode , which emerged from the project The Future , released a single in 1986 under the title "Planet of Youth / Amazing Waves". In the band, whose members went their separate ways shortly after the single was released, Larsen was responsible for synthesizers and arrangements under the pseudonym 'Paw Larsen'.

Two songs from 1982 and 1984 appeared in 1995 on the fan club compilation "Getting Away With Murder: Murders from 1982 to 1995", a collection of rarities with live, demo and unreleased studio recordings, limited to 1000 units.

1988–1993: founding and advancement

Leæther Strip was formed on January 13, 1988 as a solo project. It emerged from the synth-pop group Forbidden Art , in which Larsen was active for three years. He was initially influenced by bands such as Soft Cell , Depeche Mode , Fad Gadget , Kraftwerk , DAF and the aforementioned Twice a Man. Other inspirations he later moved from the music of Skinny Puppy , Frontline Assembly , Revolting Cocks , Nitzer Ebb and Belgian EBM acts such as à, GRUMH ... . Larsen chose the name Leæther Strip mainly because of his preference for leather. It has no deeper, philosophical meaning.

“At first I thought about continuing to use the name Forbidden Art , but I've had that for three years. I wanted a name that was ambiguous. On the one hand, strip means taking off clothes , on the other hand, leather strip also means leather strap . There was also the 'æ' to loosen up the whole thing graphically and to point out the local origin. "

- Claus Larsen, winter 1990

In 1989 Larsen recorded a demo tape within three months. He sent two copies of this to Play It Again Sam in Belgium and to Music Research , the parent company of the labels New Zone and Zoth Ommog , which were newly founded at the time . Zoth Ommog then signed Leæther Strip. The first single "Japanese Bodies" was released in the fall of 1989 and sold around 5000 times within a few months. In 1990 the debut album "The Pleasure of Penetration" was released. It contains the hits Leæther Strip Part II and Body - Machine - Body . Both “Japanese Bodies” and “The Pleasure of Penetration” were co-produced by Talla 2XLC ( Bigod 20 ) and Ra / Hen ( Axodry , Moskwa TV ) in the summer of 1989. The maxi “Aspects of Aggression” was released in late summer 1990 and the mini-album “Science for the Satanic Citizen” was released in late autumn. Both publications were first produced in Denmark without the influence of Talla and Ra / Hen. The upcoming tour of Germany took Leæther Strip in October of that year through the Kulturfabrik in Kassel ("Factory"), the Bochum incident and the Frankfurt Batschkapp . Larsen received support on the synthesizer and drum pad from Jesper Schmidt, a member of the Psychopomps group .

In 1991 the Maxi "Object V" came onto the market. Mainly the songs Mohawk and Anti US were able to establish themselves in the clubs.

In May 1992 the second album "Solitary Confinement" was released with the hits Strap Me Down and Evil Speaks . The MCD "Yes I'm Limited", limited to 1000 copies, with new recordings of earlier tracks from the "Japanese Bodies" / "The Pleasure of Penetration" era, as well as the maxi intended as a foretaste for the upcoming album "Underneath the Laughter" "Material" that is used next to the dance floor filler Steal! also contains three post-processed recordings of a 1991 live recording in the Copenhagen club “Pumpehuset”, followed a few months later. At the end of the year the “Confinement Tour” started, which Leæther Strip completed for three weeks in Germany. Larsen found support again from Jesper Schmidt and from Peter Christensen on the synthesizers. For the US market, the record company Re-constriction Records published the album “Penetrate the Satanic Citizen”, a retrospective collection with selected songs from the works only available in Germany.

In the spring of 1993, the Cleopatra Records label invited Larsen to the United States for advertising and promotional purposes and published another retrospective collection entitled "Fit for Flogging". Cleopatra was committed to a licensing partnership, which means that since 1993 the albums have also appeared regularly in the USA. Larsen moved from Aalborg to Vegger in the middle of the year . A first production from this time is the remix of Adrenalin Rush in the “Vegger Version” released in September on the compilation “Zoth in Your Mind ”. In November followed the third work "Underneath the Laughter", which contains the last hit Don't Tame Your Soul for the time being .

1994–1997: style break and failure

In the spring of 1994 Trent Reznor Leæther Strip proposed to take over the support for the upcoming "Further Down the Spiral" tour of Nine Inch Nails . Since the support was almost exclusively limited to concerts in Germany and Larsen intended to tour with Leæther Strip as headliner himself, he declined the offer.

In June of the same year the fourth album "Serenade for the Dead" was released. It was originally planned as a two-part work with five songs each. The first part was conceived as a continuation of the electro style typical for Leæther Strip, while the second part should be composed of soundtrack-like compositions. Larsen drew inspiration from splatter and horror films as well as from the music of In the Nursery and Dead Can Dance . However, this plan was soon discarded. Larsen, however, decided to produce a "fictional soundtrack" the length of the album. He rejected the proposal made by the record company Zoth Ommog to release “Serenade for the Dead” under a different project name - a decision which in retrospect turned out to be a serious mistake and was reflected in a long career kink.

“While“ Underneath the Laughter ”stood out for its danceability and the usual catchy sound and week-long placements in all independent charts, with“ Serenade for the Dead ”Claus Larsen turns the hitherto ideal Leæther strip world upside down.”

- Torben Schmidt, musician and music journalist, New Life Soundmagazine , July 1994

Fans and press were equally surprised and couldn't make friends with the work. The album flopped. An EP scheduled for late summer under the title “Invite the Perverted” was discarded. Only four of the planned songs appeared on the MCD "Positive Depression", with which Larsen made a course correction for the next three years: Thereupon he combined the style of "Underneath the Laughter" with the soundtrack-like sounds of "Serenade for the Dead" and in this way partially returned to the song-oriented structures of the initial phase. This step was well received by the music press. However, the albums "Legacy of Hate and Lust" (1995), "The Rebirth of Agony" (1996) and "Self-inflicted" (1997) hardly met with audiences - not least because of the lack of club hits and a lack of stage presence . The music scene had changed significantly in the meantime. Artists like Wumpscut , Suicide Commando , Funker Vogt or Evils Toy Leæther Strip had long since overtaken the rank as one of the spearheads of the European electro movement. The "Self-inflicted" tour planned for 1997 (together with In Strict Confidence as support), for which an appearance at the Woodstage Summer Open Air was planned, was canceled. A last EP with cover versions of Soft Cell was released under the title "Anal Cabaret: A Tribute to Soft Cell".

"The last Leæther-Strip-Tour is now [...] eight years ago and the musical experiments [...] such as the instrumental album" Serenade for the Dead "or" Legacy of Hate and Lust "[...] did not bring the hoped-for and expected acceptance in the scene. "

- Jens Krause, Sonic Seducer, May 2000

Not least due to the bankruptcy of the record company Zoth Ommog and increasing differences between Larsen and the US license partner Cleopatra Records, which culminated in a switch to the Philadelphian label Metropolis Records , the eighth studio album, announced for 1999 under the working title "Flatlander", remained an EP called "Object Æ" unreleased. Due to the resulting financial difficulties, Larsen was forced to sell most of his instruments and studio equipment. Since then he has mainly been working with computer programs.

2005–2011: new beginning

Kurt Grünewald Hansen on the keyboard at the E-tropolis Festival 2013
Claus Larsen at the E-tropolis Festival 2013
Leæther Strip at the E-tropolis Festival 2013

After hardly any new material was published in the following seven years - in 2000 only the maxi "Carry Me" with six versions of the title track appeared on the newly founded label Bloodline - Leæther Strip signed in 2005 with the Belgian label Alfa Matrix, with Claus Larsen stayed until June 2011. Kurt Grünewald Hansen, Larsen's husband, has accompanied Leæther Strip as a live keyboardist since 2010 and has performed with Larsen on several tours and festivals. Hansen has accompanied Larsen regularly since 1994.

On June 3, 2011, Claus Larsen announced the separation from the Alfa Matrix label and announced that they would publish more material.

Musical style

The early works “Japanese Bodies” and “The Pleasure of Penetration” were clearly influenced by conventional electronic body music . An example of this is the song Body - Machine - Body , which comes up with simple, repetitive sequences and a clear, pressed style of singing.

The maxi "Aspects of Aggression" and the mini-album "Science for the Satanic Citizen", released a little later, established the characteristic style with which Leæther Strip would gain international fame in the coming years. Distortion effects and noise elements were increasingly used to make the sound look more brutal. Tracks like Satanic Citizen or the Law of Jante , sung entirely in Danish, best illustrate these innovations. Further changes were noticeable in the vocals, which Larsen electronically distorted heavily using a guitar effects device. In addition, he increasingly built in strings (electronically simulated strings ), which gave the compositions a monumental, classical or film music-emphasized appearance (for example in Zyclon B ). This style, often described as " Hardcore Electro " at the time, was soon picked up by the Leæther Strip-related project Psychopomps (whose works Claus Larsen partly co-produced) and adopted by numerous subsequent groups (see section on meaning ).

meaning

Leæther Strip influenced many subsequent electronic projects, such as Wumpscut (Germany), Suicide Commando (Belgium), Decoded Feedback (Italy / Canada), Hocico (Mexico), Lights of Euphoria (Germany), Controlled Fusion (Germany), Deus Ex Machina (Mexico), Aghast View (Brazil), Chaingun Operate (Finland), Flesh Field (USA), Painbastard (Germany), Second Disease (Germany), Din Fiv (USA), Network Access (Germany), Grendel (Netherlands) and Ice Ages (Austria).

“I would never have thought that I would influence other bands. In principle, my status is greater than is generally seen. I just live apart in Denmark. Other groups are closer to the scene. "

- Claus Larsen, 1995

Especially the German formation Wumpscut, whose music Larsen knew and valued, was for a long time considered an equal successor to the Leæther strip sound.

“Of course I know his music. I think Rudy is one of the most talented German musicians in the electronic field. I am also a fan of his material [...] I am very honored that he is inspired by my music. "

- Claus Larsen on Wumpscut, 1995

Larsen's music also attracted attention outside the scene: Dino Cazares , guitarist of the groove metal band Fear Factory , let the press wear a Leæther strip t-shirt when the EP “Fear Is the Mindkiller” was released in 1993 (“ Photograph Object V “cover motif).

Larsen also supported and discovered various newcomer bands of the 1990s, including Digital Factor , whom he made a contract with Hard Records in Denmark possible, and Seven Trees, whose debut was subsequently released by Zoth Ommog.

Side projects

Klutæ

Klutæ is a side project founded in 1991 after the first tour of Germany, with which Claus Larsen mainly devoted himself to the crossover and industrial metal trend. Among other things, he sampled a riff from the metal band Anthrax , for example in Nothing to Hide . The first maxi "Explicit" was released that same year. The following album “Excluded” sold even better in the USA than the works of Leæther Strip. It is also the only album by Larsen that has also been licensed to Alfa Records in Japan. In 1995 the last publication "Excel" came out. Only after the reactivation of Leæther Strip in 2005 did new material from Klutæ appear on a regular basis.

Others

  • CLAUStrophobia
  • Phobia
  • Sun Glory (with Martin Nielsen)
  • Synergy (together with Martin Nielsen)

All four projects were short-lived experiments with which Claus Larsen attempted techno and psychedelic trance between 1995 and 1997 . Only a few tracks appeared on rave and Goa samplers. The only regular release is the single "Deepthought" by Synergy, which was released in 1995 on the German label DMD.

Equipment (selection)

Instruments with which Claus Larsen worked in the "Strip Studio DK" (since 1993 Strip Farm DK ) in the 1990s were:

  • Yamaha DX7 (digital synthesizer)
  • Yamaha TG77 (digital synthesizer)
  • Kawai K3m (hybrid synthesizer)
  • Oberheim Matrix 6 (analog synthesizer)
  • Moog Source (analog synthesizer)
  • Roland SH-101 (analog synthesizer)
  • Roland S-550 (12-bit sampler)
  • AKAI s950 (12-bit sampler)
  • E-MU Systems Emax HD (Digital Sampling Keyboard)
  • BOSS Pro SE-50 (stereo multi-effects processor)

Discography

Demos

  • 1989 - The Pleasure of Penetration (MC)

Albums

  • 1990 - The Pleasure of Penetration (LP / CD)
  • 1992 - Solitary Confinement (LP / CD)
  • 1993 - Underneath the Laughter (CD)
  • 1994 - Serenade for the Dead (CD)
  • 1995 - Legacy of Hate and Lust (CD)
  • 1996 - The Rebirth of Agony (CD)
  • 1997 - Self-inflicted (CD)
  • 2005 - After the Devastation (2 CD / Box)
  • 2007 - The Giant Minutes to the Dawn (CD / 2 CD)
  • 2008 - Civil Disobedience (2 CD / Box)
  • 2009 - Angelmaker (2 CD / Box)
  • 2010 - Mental Slavery (3 CD Box)
  • 2010 - Seasons Change - I Don't (LP)
  • 2010 - Dark Passages + Seasons Change - I Don't (2 CD)
  • 2010 - Mental Recovery (MP3)
  • 2011 - Untold Stories: The Melancholic Sessions (self-release)
  • 2013 - Serenade For The Dead II (CD)
  • 2014 - Æscapism (CD)
  • 2016 - Spaectator (CD, MP3)
  • 2017 - 50 (CD)
  • 2018 - Appreciation II (CD)

Singles / Maxis

  • 1989 - Japanese Bodies (12 ")
  • 1990 - Aspects of Aggression (12 "/ MCD)
  • 1991 - Object V (12 "/ MCD)
  • 1992 - Yes, I'm Limited (MCD)
  • 1994 - Positive Depression (MCD)
  • 1997 - Yes, I'm Limited Vol. II (CD)
  • 2000 - Carry Me (MCD)
  • 2008 - Diægnosis (Download)
  • 2009 - Power Strip (12 ")
  • 2009 - It's Who I Am (Download)
  • 2010 - The Bears Aren't Sleeping Tonight (CDr)
  • 2011 - Sex Dwarf (7 "+ 3" CD)

EPs / mini albums

  • 1990 - Science for the Satanic Citizen (MLP / CD)
  • 1992 - material (12 "/ CD)
  • 1997 - Anal Cabaret: A Tribute to Soft Cell (CD)
  • 2005 - Suicide Bombers (CD)
  • 2006 - Fætish (CD / Box)
  • 2006 - Walking on Volcanos (CD)
  • 2008 - When Blood Runs Dark (Download)
  • 2009 - Hærværk (CD)

Compilations

  • 1992 - Penetrate the Satanic Citizen (CD)
  • 1993 - Fit for Flogging (CD)
  • 1995 - Double or Nothing (2 CD)
  • 1995 - Getting Away With Murder: Murders from 1982 to 1995 (CD, Ras Dva Fanclub-Release)
  • 1996 - Best of Leæther Strip (CD)
  • 1997 - Retrospective (CD)
  • 1998 - Yes, I'm Limited Vol. III (2 CD)
  • 2005 - Satanic Reasons: The Very Best of (2 CD)
  • 2007 - Retention No. 1 (2 CD)
  • 2008 - Retention No. 2 (2 CD)
  • 2010 - Yes, I'm Limited Vol. V (2 CD)
  • 2010 - Retention No. 3 (2 CD)

Special editions

  • 2006 - After the Devastation (Limited 3 CD Special Bag Edition)
Limited edition of the double album includes: "After the Devastation" Limited Edition 3-CD Box Set, "Evacuate or Die", Double Sided Printed T-Shirt, Poster and Deluxe Bag, Matri-X-traX Chapter I.
  • 2006 - Fætish (Limited 2 CD Box)
Editions limited to 2000 copies: "Hælloween" 5-piece EP, extra encores: condom, buttons, postcards and a booklet full of Leæther Strip fan artwork.
  • 2008 - When Blood Runs Dark
Exclusive download album with remixes of the album "The Giant Minutes to the Dawn"
  • 2009 Diægnosis
Exclusive download EP
  • 2009 Angelmaker (Limited 3 CD Box)
Limited edition of the double album with bonus CD "Yes I'm Limited IV".
  • 2010 Mental Slavery (Limited 3 CD Box)
Limited edition of the double album with bonus CD "Mental Disturbance" and download code for the remix album "Mental Recovery"

Videos

  • Leæther Strip Part II (Clip)
  • Evil Speaks (clip)
  • No Rest for the Wicked (clip)
  • Confinement Tour 1992 (live recording)

Web links

Commons : Leæther Strip  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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