Mortal Constraint

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Mortal Constraint
General information
Genre (s) Electro-industrial , dark electro
founding 1991
resolution 1999
Last occupation
Singing , lyrics, arrangement
 Ingo Lindmeier
Singing, lyrics, arrangement
 Jürgen Fahrner

Mortal Constraint was a German-Swiss electronics group founded in 1991 by Ingo Lindmeier and Jürgen Fahrner.

background

Influenced by groups such as The Klinik and Clock DVA, Lindmeier, who lives in Lörrach , and Fahrner, who lives in Zurich , formed the Mortal Constraint project.

In 1993 they released the demo cassette The Legend of Deformation and a short time later they were signed by the Hamburg record company Glasnost Records .

In 1994 the first and only full-time album The Legend of Deformation was released , with which the band set new standards: a large number of projects from the electro field , including Suicide Commando and Disharmony , were inspired by the music of Mortal Constraint.

On October 22nd, 1994 the band took part in the Diabolus Cantus Festival in Karlsruhe-Durlach, alongside artists such as Placebo Effect and Die Form .

Four exclusive pieces followed, e.g. the original version of Empty Eyes on the compilation Paranoise Volume 1 (1994), the piece Hiding on the compilation Floating Waves (1994) and Time and Praying for the Rain on the Swiss compilation Sonic Dawn ( 1995).

In 1995, Lindmeier and Fahrner dedicated themselves to their solo projects Polygon and Loss of Center . A second Mortal Constraint publication planned for the same year was discarded. Mortal Constraint was put on hold in the late 1990s. The EP Second Move , released in 1999, represented the project's last sign of life for a long time.

After a long break, Mortal Constraint performed a concert in Zurich on January 17th, 2009. Another appearance followed on March 21, 2009 at the Uni-KuM Erfurt.

Discography

Albums / EPs

  • 1992: The Legend of Deformation (MC)
  • 1994: The Legend of Deformation (CD)
  • 1999: Second Move (EP)

Compilations

  • 1994: Empty Eyes (on Paranoise Volume 1 )
  • 1994: Hiding (on Floating Waves )
  • 1995: Time (on Sonic Dawn )
  • 1995: Praying for the Rain (on Sonic Dawn )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Michaela Böttcher: Mortal Constraint. In: Entry Musikmagazin , issue 5, February / March 1995, p. 51
  2. ↑ Breda Maßmann: Interview with Johan van Roy In: Entry Musikmagazin , issue 1/96, February 1996, p. 18
  3. ↑ Interview with Disharmony for Orkus music magazine, 2002

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