Mortal Constraint
Mortal Constraint | |
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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
- ↑ a b c d e Michaela Böttcher: Mortal Constraint. In: Entry Musikmagazin , issue 5, February / March 1995, p. 51
- ↑ Breda Maßmann: Interview with Johan van Roy In: Entry Musikmagazin , issue 1/96, February 1996, p. 18
- ↑ Interview with Disharmony for Orkus music magazine, 2002
Web links
- Mortal Constraint at Discogs (English)