Plastic Noise Experience
| Plastic Noise Experience | |
|---|---|
 Claus Kruse at the Nocturnal Culture Night 2018 |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Electro-industrial |
| founding | 1989 |
| Website | n / A |
| Founding members | |
| Claus Kruse | |
| Stephan Kalwa (until 1999) | |
| Current occupation | |
| Claus Kruse | |
| Live crew | |
synthesizer |
Kazim Sarikaya |
synthesizer |
René Raasch |
synthesizer |
Steffen Gehring |
Plastic Noise Experience , or PNE for short , is a music project that was founded in Minden at the end of 1989 by Claus Kruse and Stephan Kalwa (aka Your Schizophrenic Pal ) . It emerged from the previous project Plastic Error , which Claus Kruse led as a solo project for about two years.
biography
Time of departure
In 1987 Claus Kruse founded the Plastic Error project. The three demo tapes “Grundriß”, “Existence” and “Forever” were created under this name and formed the basis of the later two-man project Plastic Noise Experience.
In 1989 Kruse met Stephan Kalwa in a small discotheque in Minden ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). Influenced by music projects such as Kraftwerk , The Klinik or Vomito Negro , they founded Plastic Noise Experience at the end of the same year . PNE made their first live appearance on January 5, 1991 at the Schlachthof Party in Bremen .
After 5 cassette releases and a few compilations , the first album "Transmission" was released in February 1992 on GA Records. The music was very rhythmic at that time, hard and danceable, resulting in tracks like Kill The 6 , Memory Flow , coincidence or gold were able to establish in the discos quickly.
This was followed by the maxi CD "Gold" and the strictly limited double CD "PNE Box", including a cover version of the Bronski Beat classic Smalltown Boy , which was only a small success live and in an earlier version as early as 1987 at plastic error times.
Rather, the double CD enabled two more titles to be entered as club hits: Gold (Extended Remix) , an extended version of the original track, and Ritual , a track in German that only managed 3 short sentences and was back in 1991 on the compilation "Art & Dance Vol. 1" was released. A live version of Ritual was also recorded on December 14, 1992 in the Haus der Jugend ( Osnabrück ) by Gin Devo from Vomito Negro and appeared in 1993 on the 3-track compilation "Art & Dance Vol. 3 - Live".
After the "PNE Box" was sold out, some of the tracks it contained were released again as a regular EP under the name "Smalltown Boy". Here you can hear the Kraftwerk- heavy track One Way Order or Serious Times , a synth-pop song that showed PNE for the first time from its gentle side.
Change to KK Records
On December 26, 1992, PNE performed the most spectacular performance of their career to date at the Dark X-Mas Festival in the Biskuithalle in Bonn : To the amazement of the audience, Claus Kruse sang the The Klinik classic Moving Hands in a duet with Dirk Ivens ( Klinik , Dive). This little surprise effect was also recorded live and made accessible to a wider audience on the 1994 compilation “Living For Music”.
On this occasion, PNE signed a new contract and switched from GA Records to the Belgium- based label KK Records. The mini-CD “Incident”, published for promotional purposes, was released , which was officially put into circulation on April 16, 1993 only during a video presentation in the Bochum scene disco Incident . The disc contained mostly unreleased material from the old days, with Shadows On The Skyline again proving to be a small club hit.
Subsequently, the second album "String Of Ice" and the EP "Visage de Plastique" came on the market, which, however, could not build on the success of the previous releases. Despite the tracks String Of Ice and Dream Destructor , where the club hit potential was definitely there, the album was mainly criticized for the lack of spontaneity and heaviness. Then there was the undemanding layout and the catastrophic graphic implementation of the CD inlay. Only Visage de Plastique from the EP of the same name seemed to be able to stand out positively from the rest of the tracks of this era through the female spoken vocals in French.
This was followed by a European tour through Belgium , Denmark , Germany , France and the Czech Republic . In 1994, KK Records licensed PNE's albums to the American label Van Richter Records. However, several tracks were selected there. The album "String Of Ice" and the EP "Visage de Plastique" were thus reduced to 14 tracks and released as a single CD under the title "-196 ° C".
Time out
1995 was supposed to be the year of PNE's last release in the form of a double CD. GA Records reissued the 1992 album “Transmission” under the title “Transmitted Memory”. The bonus CD “Keep In Memory” mainly contained sampler tracks and unreleased material, including the tracks Ritual , Gold (Extended Remix) and the noisy Touch Your Skin .
Van Richter Records also seemed interested in the old material, as well as in the titles of the "Smalltown Boy" EP. Again some of the tracks were sorted out, the 3 CDs "Transmission", "Keep In Memory" and "Smalltown Boy" were crammed onto a single CD with 20 tracks and released under the title "Neural Transmission". A total of 11 tracks fell victim to the selection and were therefore not released for the American market.
This year PNE reinterpreted the track D-ranged for the Osnabrück electro duo Paracont (formerly Paralized Control ). D-ranged in its original version appeared 1 year earlier on the Paracont album “Zoom” and should now be included in a new version on the planned maxi “Do It!”. This maxi, however, never came on the market and so D-ranged ended up only 2 years later as a successful cover version on the 1997 PNE album "Rauschen".
The comeback
In 1997, when hardly anyone expected PNE to return , KK Records announced the new album "Rauschen". There were 2 releases for this album: "Digital Noise" and "City Of Lies / In Your Mind". Even at that time, the market could hardly be overlooked by its publications. In addition, the target audience in Germany had changed significantly over the years . In the November 1997 issue of the music magazine Orkus , reviewer Alexander Maciol rejected the entire work as old-fashioned and accused PNE of having sampled Underworld from the British techno musicians , which Claus Kruse vehemently denied in several interviews.
The fact that the prophet does not count in their own country should become noticeable from here at the latest: While in Germany people remained rather unimpressed with regard to the comeback, abroad in particular showed interest in the duo's music. It is therefore not surprising that the debut of Claus Kruse's side project Sonic Unit received hardly any attention there either . This was followed by the limited CD-R “Raw Cuts, Demos & Tapes Part 1”, an in-house production with 16 previously unreleased tracks, as a small thank you to the remaining fans.
Two new faces could now be admired on stage: the two musicians Steffen Gehring (main project: Technoir ) and René Raasch (main project: Cyber , later Cysonic ) came to support PNE live.
In 2013 the EP "Control" was released, an album with only 12 '' versions that is based on the musical origins of the project and includes remixes by the Armageddon Dildos and Vomito Negro .
Publications
- 1990: Mission Memory (MC)
- 1990: Gold (MC)
- 1991: Our Land, Our Lie (MC, Glasnost Records)
- 1991: Mission Memory / Gold (MC)
- 1991: The Black Tape (MC)
- 1992: Transmission (LP, GA Records, GAR LP 002)
- 1992: Transmission (CD, GA Records, GAR CD 005)
- 1992: Gold (CDM, GA Records, GAR MCD 004)
- 1992: The Black Box [Limited Edition] (DCD, GA Records, GAR BOX 011)
- Disc One : Smalltown Boy (by PNE) (CDM, GA Records, GAR EP 010)
- Disc Two : Man To Man (by Gaytron) (CDM, GA Records, GOR MCD 006)
- 1992: Smalltown Boy (EP, GA Records, GAR EP 010 / EFA 06311)
- 1993: Incident [Promo, Limited Edition] (3 "CD, KK Records, KK 104)
- 1993: String of Ice (CD, KK Records, KK 101 CD)
- 1993: Visage de Plastique (EP, KK Records, KK 108 MCD)
- 1994: -196 ° C (CD, Van Richter Records, VR 1003)
- 1995: Transmitted Memory (DCD, GA Records, GAR DCD 035)
- Disc One : Transmission (CD, GA Records, GAR CD 035-1)
- Disc Two : Keep In Memory (CD, GA Records, GAR CD 035-2)
- 1995: Neural Transmission (CD, Van Richter Records, VR 1006)
- 1997: Rauschen [Promo] (CD, KK Records, KK 170 CD)
- 1997: Rauschen (CD, KK Records, KK 170 CD)
- 1997: Digital Noise (CDM, KK Records, KK 171 CD)
- 1997: City of Lies / In Your Mind (CDM, KK Records, KK 172 CD)
- 1997: Raw Cuts, Demos & Tapes Part 1 (CD-R, Alpha Dial Music, CD 004)
- 2004: Engine room [Limited Edition] (EP, Alfa Matrix, AM 1036 EPCD)
- 2004: Maschinenmusik [Limited Edition] (DVD box, Alfa Matrix, AM 2031 DCD Ltd)
- Disc One : Machine Music (CD, Alfa Matrix, AM 1031 CD)
- Disc Two : Live (DVD, Alfa Matrix)
- 2004: Machine Music (CD, Alfa Matrix, AM 1031 CD)
- 2004: Machine Music (CD, Metropolis Records, MET 340)
- 2005: Noised (CD, Van Richter Records, VR 1020)
- 2006: Dead or Alive (CD, Alfa Matrix, AM1068CD)
- 2006: Dead or Alive / Transmission Completed [Limited Edition, 500 Copies] (DCD, Alfa Matrix, AM-2068DCD)
- 2013: Control (EP)
- 2014: Therapy (CD / DCD)
Side projects
- Cysonic
- Gaytron
- Serpents
- Sonic Unit
Web links
- Official website
- Alfa Matrix label page ( Memento from December 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sonic Seducer Edition December 2013 / January 2014: "Plastic Noise Experience - Root Treatment", p. 21