Project Pitchfork
| Project Pitchfork | |
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 Project Pitchfork at the Blackfield Festival 2013 |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) |
Synth Rock , Electronica (1995-2013) Electro Wave , Dark Wave (1989-1994) |
| founding | 1989 |
| Website | www.project-pitchfork.eu |
| Founding members | |
| Peter Spilles | |
| Dirk Scheuber | |
| Current occupation | |
Singing, synthesizer, sampling |
Peter Spilles |
Arrangements, guitar |
Dirk Scheuber |
synthesizer |
Jürgen Jansen |
| former members | |
| Patricia Nigiani (1994-1995) | |
Drums (live) |
Markus Giltjes (1993–1995) |
Drums (live) |
Jens Schrader (1997-1998) |
| Live members | |
Drums |
Achim Färber |
Drums |
Nook |
guitar |
Carsten Klatte |
Drums |
Léo |
Project Pitchfork is a band from Hamburg that was founded in 1989 and was one of the most popular representatives in the electro-wave environment at the beginning of the 1990s . Since the mid-1990s, the band has enjoyed cross-scene success and every work released since 1994 has hit the German album charts .
The band was nominated twice for the Echo: 1998 in the category "Music Video of the Year national" and 2002 in the category "Best Alternative Act national".
history
1989–1994: First successes in the wave scene
Project creation
The artistic basis of Project Pitchfork was the Demoniac Puppets project , which Peter Spilles ran under various pseudonyms and emerged from an even earlier project called Black Planet . The six different audio cassettes that Spilles published and distributed in Hamburg discotheques, of which only Embryonal Thoughts (1988) and Feary Tales (1989) achieved fame, already contained songs and song structures that were later used in the early works “Dhyani” and "Lam-'bras" were used. These include, for example, the tracks Lie on Grass and Imaginary Product . Set pieces of the last mentioned songs can be found in Go Further on the album "Lam-'bras". Another part of these recordings, such as Nightmare (s) , was played live at the beginning of the 1990s or was included in a special edition of the 1994 album "IO".
Dirk Scheuber spent his youth in the GDR and left it in 1986. He and Spilles met at the end of 1988 at a concert by the group Girls Under Glass in Hamburg and continued to lead Demoniac Puppets until 1989. Shortly thereafter, they renamed the project Project Pitchfork . The band name Pitchfork (literally "pitchfork; pitchfork") symbolizes the "stirring up (people's thoughts)" and stands for the socially critical side of the band. The addition of the name Project is intended to make it clear that this is an open, determined project in which guest musicians can also participate. The central figure of this project is Peter Spilles, who made his first musical steps at the age of 14. In his home studio, temporarily called "The Hall of Light", most of the works were worked out and pre-produced. In the first few years he used a Roland W-30 sampling workstation and from 1993 the Akai S-3000 , a digital 16-bit stereo sampler. Dirk Scheuber was initially only rarely involved in albums such as "Dhyani". Among other things, he wrote the piece Vietnam and the text for Lost Youth of a Prisoner , which deals with the negative experiences in East Germany and addresses the suppression of dissenters by authoritarian / totalitarian regimes. His influence became stronger from the 1997 album "! Chakra: Red!".
Patricia Nigiani, actually Linda Patricia Nigiani Degl'innocenti , is of Chinese-Italian descent and lived for several years in Saudi Arabia, where she attended an English school. Nigiani is multicultural. She is interested in music, the fine arts and philosophy. She was in a relationship with Spilles, helped with text translations and created the cover artwork for the debut album (“ Communion ” motif) and the maxi single “Psychic Torture”. She first became vocal in the band in summer 1991. There are contradicting statements about Nigiani's membership. Although she appears in the band's 1994 promotion and press photos, is confirmed as a member in earlier interviews and is mentioned in the booklet for the album “IO” as a contributor to the songwriting, her involvement in and influence on the project is largely denied today.
The first works
Project Pitchfork gave their first live concert on February 15, 1990 in the Hamburg discotheque "Kir". There they met the resident DJ and future producer Matthias Rewig. In the NHB Studios in the Hanseatic city, he produced the band's first release, the 9-track demo cassette "KNKA" (an acronym for the text line "Killing Nature, Killing Animals"), which was released in August 1990. Rewig then referred the band to Alster Musikverlag (AMV Talpa). Project Pitchfork published their first regularly available title in November of the same year on the compilation "German Mystic Sound Sampler Volume I". They are represented on it with an alternative version of the song 2nd Step .
After a few concerts, the Nuremberg record label Hypnobeat Records became aware of the band. There Pitchfork released their debut album “Dhyani” in March 1991, which they recorded in just three days due to the small budget. Some songs from the demo tape "KNKA" were taken over in revised versions. The name of the album goes back to Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo alias Pema Sangzin Khandro , the initiator of the "Sunray Meditation Society", a contemplative community of Tibetan Buddhism in Bristol, Vermont, USA. With this first work, the duo achieved the status of one of the most promising newcomers in the late electro-wave movement of the early 1990s. About 7,000 copies of “Dhyani” were sold within a short period of time. At the time, Pitchfork were influenced by groups such as The Human League , Ultravox , OMD , Alien Sex Fiend , The Invincible Spirit , Invisible Limits, Dead Can Dance , Einstürzende Neubauten , Test Dept. but also Jean Michel Jarre .
Project Pitchfork rejected categorization as a Gothic band. You yourself described your music as a “positive-mystical attack on the electro wave” .
“ For me Gothic is something like the early Christian Death or something like that from this area. We wouldn't count ourselves among them. "
In April 1991 Pitchfork went on tour in Germany with Girls Under Glass. Further appearances with groups like Love Like Blood , yelworC and Das Ich followed. During this time Patricia Nigiani sang her first song Comedy of Life , which appeared on the single "Precious New World" in September of the same year. The single was distributed in a black box limited to 500 units together with a logo sticker and a band photo. The MCD "Psychic Torture", which contains two new songs in addition to Precious New World and a remix for KNKA , followed a month later. After a concert in Hamburg, a collaboration with Tommi Stumpff was planned, which however could not be realized due to contractual obligations. On September 27th, the band performed together with Pink Turns Blue , The Fair Sex and In the Nursery at the “1. Night of Darkness “festival in the Kulturfabrik Krefeld. On October 11th she could be seen together with X Marks the Pedwalk in the House of Unity (today Kraftwerk eV ) in Chemnitz. There was an attack by right-wing extremist skinheads , who stormed the concert hall during the dismantling work and physically attacked and injured members of both bands (both Dirk Scheuber and Jörg Böhme from X Marks the Pedwalk). The police did not intervene. The last appearance of this year took place on December 29th in the Batschkapp in Frankfurt together with Love Is Colder Than Death .
Establishment in the clubs
In February 1992 the second album "Lam-'bras" ("Path and Knowledge") was released. The title Conjure represented on it became a hit. A related clip was released on the video "Va I Luce Eno Nol Si Unir". Patricia Nigiani sang the track Floating Dolphins . It represents the beginning of the Aurora side project, which was realized soon after . Another early song on this project is Crusaders , which appeared in a demo version on the compilation “040 - Hamburg Strikes Back!”. Also included is a demo recording of the Pitchfork song Inside as "Cellar Version 1988". In April Pitchfork went on tour again and together with And One and Oomph! participated in a festival of the organizer Moonchild on April 18th in Leipzig. On this tour, Project Pitchfork were accompanied by the Trial group , which provided support. Another appearance followed on August 23rd together with Placebo Effect as part of Documenta IX in Kassel. On September 25th the band played their first international concert in Brussels, Belgium.
The third album "Entities" was released in October 1992. The first edition appeared in a box set limited to 1,000 copies with a bonus CD in 3 "format, which contained the previously unreleased songs Nightmare (Live '91) and A Journey Through the Psychonetic Dimension . As all songs on the album were short The band declined to release them on vinyl . Patricia Nigiani took over the backing vocals for the tracks Ocean of Whispers and Souls . In November Hyperium / Hypnobeat Records released the Label compilation "Hy! From Hypnotic to Hypersonic". Pitchfork with the original version of Caught in the Abattoir are represented on it. A new recording of this title can be found on the EP "Souls / Island". The highlights of 1992 were the Appearances at the “Dark X-mas” festival on December 25th in the Hamburg market hall and on December 26th in the Biskuithalle in Bonn.
In March 1993 the EP "Souls / Island" was released and Pitchfork commissioned Devilock TV for a video clip for Souls . Originally this was supposed to be shot in an old factory hall. However, Devilock TV suggested the vaults of the Sparrenburg in Bielefeld as an alternative , which were then chosen as the location for the film; filming lasted two days. The song of the same name has meanwhile become a club hit. At the same time, Aurora's debut "The Land of Harm and Appletrees" was released , a joint project by Peter Spilles and Patricia Nigiani, which embodied the quieter side of Project Pitchfork and was influenced by neoclassical groups like In the Nursery . For this album Aurora re-recorded the track Floating Dolphins, which was previously only available on "Lam-'bras" . The vocals were almost exclusively performed by Nigiani, while Spilles took care of the music. Another album of this cooperation was released a year later under the title "The Dimension Gate". For this concept work, the duo had renamed themselves Aurora Sutra . In addition to yelworC , Dive, Plastic Noise Experience and Numb, Project Pitchfork could be seen on April 25, 1993 at the "Night of Darkness" in Augsburg's Ostwerk. In the course of other concerts, they also presented the new Aurora project live. Together with artists like Anne Clark , Deine Lakaien and Love Like Blood, Pitchfork took part in the Zillo Open Air in Durmersheim near Karlsruhe on June 12, 1993 .
The breakthrough
Due to personal differences with the record company Hypnobeat Records, Pitchfork decided to change labels. The choices were, among others, the Berlin record company Machinery and the label Off Beat, which was newly founded at the time, from the environment of the “ Sub Line ” music magazine. The band signed a contract with Off Beat, on which the MCD "Carrion" appeared in October 1993. It contains a cover version of the song Circus of Death by The Human League.
On February 7, 1994 the album "IO" was released. In this work Patricia Nigiani was integrated as a full band member for the first time. She was involved in the vocals on the songs IO and The Silverthread . The album title refers to the Jupiter moon " Io " and is supposed to symbolize the duality of humans.
“ This moon is attracted to Jupiter and another moon ( Europe ) at the same time. This creates tremendous tension on its surface, which means that this moon 'Io' is almost only glowing. I have taken this symbol for people who are torn between two polarities. "
Just like “Entities”, the first edition of the album was released in a limited box with a bonus 3 ”CD containing four early recordings of the previous project Demoniac Puppets . A limited double LP edition of the album also includes a remastered version of the song Fire Trap (Live) , which originally appeared on the “KNKA” demo by Project Pitchfork. Although “IO” received negative reviews from journalists and was criticized as being heavily pop-oriented , according to many fans it was until then The band's most mature work in terms of both content and music. Pitchfork entered the German album charts for the first time with “IO” and stayed there for nine weeks. Alongside your Lakaien, they were one of the most successful representatives of the German electro-wave scene Pitchfork - now as the Spilles-Scheuber-Nigiani trio - toured Germany with Trauma , a Girls-Under-Glass side project, two months later the song “Renascence "Released as MCD from the album" IO "and released with remix work by Ernst Horn (Deine Lakaien) and Bill Leeb ( Front Line Assembly ) as well as the song The Hint , for which Yorck Eysel from Love Like Blood took over the supporting voice. From April the group toured the Czech Republic, Belgium, France and the Netherlands and played on August 20 at the Bizarre Festival in Cologne's youth park in front of over 20,000 spectators.
For the 5-year anniversary compilation of the Zillo music magazine published on December 1st , Pitchfork contributed the song bodies . A new recording of the track can be found on the EP "Corps d'Amour".
Meanwhile, Peter Spilles was working with Yorck Eysel on the Satyagraha project , which later became part of REC. was renamed. This cooperation resulted in the album of the same name "REC." In the winter of 1994. Other musicians involved were Volker Zacharias, Axel Ermes and Hauke Harms from Girls Under Glass, Jürgen Jansen from The Cassandra Complex , Matthias Rewig, Dirk Scheuber and Patricia Nigiani. Breñal from Calva Y Nada was originally planned for this project . Another cooperation between Spilles and Jansen resulted in the work “Speedwingslowthings”. Although Spilles always negative about Techno - and House expressed -Music and those described as "soulless" and "unattractive," he founded with Rewig the techno / trance project Mandala and published in the same year the track Children of Chi on genre-appropriate compilations such as "Buddha Trance". Mandala was later renamed Children of Chi . Using this name once, the track Dune appeared in 1995 on the Spanish compilation "Trancerave Ultra".
1995–1997: Style change and reorganization
Candyland Entertainment
Patricia Nigiani left the band in January 1995. She turned her back on electronic music and continued the Aurora Sutra project on her own with a new basic stylistic orientation. In February, Off Beat released the tour video “Glowing Like IO”. This also contains a video clip for the 1994 single "Renascence". A second "Infinity Mix" of the song made by Front Line Assembly appeared on the compilation "The Tyranny OFF the BEAT" that same month. At the same time Pitchfork gave concerts in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Due to the apotheotic character of many fans, however, the consideration soon arose to dissolve Project Pitchfork.
“ There was a concert at which someone said to me that I was God to them. That happened to me several times within a very short time. And that's when I started to wonder whether I, who is fighting for religion as an institution to be viewed as a foolish idea and that everyone recognizes how important the individual is, better stop. "
Spilles met this problem on a musical level with the song Self-Knowledge , which is included on the EP "Corps d'Amour", which was released soon afterwards.
After several unsuccessful attempts in the previous years to get the band's albums licensed for the US market (including via Cheetah Records), contact was made with Metropolis Records in Philadelphia via the Off Beat label. The album "IO" was released there in February 1995 and all subsequent works from 1998 onwards.
“It's very strange there with the licenses. You might get the discs in Miami or on the east coast, but if you live in San Francisco, for example, you have no chance of getting there. Sales there are very limited to individual regions, not nationwide like we are. It just depends on the label there and its possibilities. "
Then Spilles and Scheuber separated from Off Beat because they were dissatisfied with their label work. Together with their manager Kai Lotze, they started their own record company with Candyland Entertainment and released the EP "Corps d'Amour" in April 1995, the previously best-selling album "Alpha Omega" in September and the remix EP a month later “Ch'i”, on which techno and electronica elements were used for the first time . Like its predecessor, “Alpha Omega” stayed in the media control charts for nine weeks and also contains the band's first song in German: Endzeit . The piece The Longing was originally intended for the Aurora Sutra side project . After leaving the project, Peter Spilles rewrote it for Project Pitchfork. "Alpha Omega" was developed and produced within two weeks. The first edition of the album appeared in a tinplate box limited to 5,000 copies, which had the disadvantage that due to the nature of the material, many CDs burst into individual parts when they were attached to the tin tray. On June 9, 1995, the band performed at the Zillo Open Air in Rüsselsheim. For the upcoming “Alpha Omega” tour, the Rammstein group acted as the opening act . Project Pitchfork was supported live by Pink-Turns-Blue drummer Markus Giltjes .
Other bands were signed for Candyland Entertainment, including Philtron , La Floa Maldita and the American band Deep Red . The label exists to this day and serves to release Pitchfork albums as well as later established side projects such as IMATEM and Santa Hates You .
Over the years, the band managed to get interested in a wide range of audiences by changing their music and opening up to other audiences.
“ In the beginning we were of course heard more from the Dark Wavers . But that has changed a lot over time. If you go to our concerts today, you will see everything there - from stylish goths to perfectly normal guys in street outfits, i.e. jeans and sneakers. In terms of age, you can find everything between 15 and 45, which of course makes us incredibly happy. It's great when we can appeal to so many different people with our music. True to our band name, which we chose in the early days because we want to change our minds through our music, we naturally hope to attract attention across genres. Even if old fans have turned their backs on the band due to the musical changes, it has shown that on the other hand we were able to inspire plenty of new people with our music. "
The musical change was underlined by a new draft of the band's logo.
Change to a "rock band"
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In 1996 the retrospective collection "The Early Years" was released, which was intended for the American market and contains material from previous albums. However, it was only regularly available there from June 1997 through a license agreement with Cleopatra Records in Los Angeles. On June 8, 1996, the band performed at the second Woodstage Summer Open Air in Glauchau. In October an exclusive remix of the song "Animal" made by Dirk Scheuber was released on the compilation "E-Beat - Phase II". The MCD “En Garde!” Followed on November 4th. Another foretaste of the album "! Chakra: Red!", Which was released in February 1997, was offered by the rock - heavy song Shockwaved , which Project Pitchfork contributed to the Goethes-Erben side project Still Silent .
With “! Chakra: Red!” The change in style was consistently pursued. The album is occasionally based on trip-hop and drum-and-bass rhythms and has been expanded to include rock and crossover elements. For the rhythm guitars used, the band sometimes resorted to samples . Dirk Scheuber, who at the time was inspired by artists such as Björk , Portishead , Fugazi and Monster Magnet , has been working intensively on a Pitchfork production for a long time and recorded the guitar parts in the studio for the remaining tracks. He wrote the tracks Human Crossing and Celeste . Jürgen Jansen, who had previously worked as a producer for Pitchfork and has now been integrated into the band as a new member, exerted further influence on the album. He contributed the two songs 2069 AD and Tower of Lust . Also featured is a cover version of the Jon and Vangelis classic I'll Find My Way Home . The piece En Garde! from the MCD of the same name, however, was not adopted because, according to Spilles, it did not fit into the concept of the album due to its age. Only Metropolis Records later decided to take over, as “En Garde!” Was only available via import in the States.
"! Chakra: Red!" Is the only album that was also released in Sweden on the Energy Rekords label. With this work, Project Pitchfork had completely broken away from their earlier sound. The 1995 EP “Corps d'Amour” was rejected by many Project Pitchfork fans from the Wave environment. With "! Chakra: Red!" This development reached a low point and the band gradually lost its reputation within the dark wave scene. Peter Spilles later admitted:
" When I look at the reactions, I notice that! Chakra: Red! the negative reviews from the wave / gothic scene became very loud. "
From March 1997 Project Pitchfork went on tour in Germany. For the live performances, older titles such as Fire & Ice , The Hint , Conjure and The Island were also adapted to the new musical direction of the band. The audio recording of a concert in Chemnitz appeared under the title "Live '97" in a limited edition on CD. The plans for an official "! Chakra: Red!" Live video were discarded because the footage did not meet the band's quality requirements.
1998–2004: Warner Music - the major years
In 1998 several major labels became aware of the band. Project Pitchfork chose Warner (East West), with whom they signed a record contract that ran until 2004, and released the MCD "Steelrose" on June 15, 1998, followed on September 14 by "Carnival" and the seventh album "Eon: Eon, ”which was released on October 5th. "Eon: Eon" contains more techno elements, such as a constant bass drum and hi-hats in Dreamer and Wish , but also big beat and breakbeat borrowings, such as in Rescue , Karma Monster and Hunted .
The contract with East West enabled the band to appear on television for the first time via video clips and larger PR , including the live broadcast of the benefit festival “Show face against violence” on December 15, 2000 in Leipzig. During this period, she also took part in the ARTE film “Zone Reptile” (working title: “Mic dans tous ses états”), a milieu study about young people in the southern French “suburban ghettos” which the band made a guest appearance. The French director Jérôme de Missolz was so fascinated by the work of the band, their performance and philosophy that he included them in his film. In addition to the 12-minute recording of the concert that was given directly for this film, the presence of the music by Project Pitchfork runs through the entire film. The lyrics of the songs were used to illustrate the emotional world of the main actors. They are therefore an important part of the storytelling in this work.
In 2004 the last release on Warner was the elaborately designed double DVD "Live 2003", which contains video clips, comments, a tour diary and interviews as well as a complete live concert by the band.
2005–2018: development to the present
After the tenth album Kaskade was released in the early summer of 2005, the band released the compositions "One Million Faces" and "Wonderland", their first homepage download almost a year later, which was released on CD a year later at the request of the fans . At the same time, Peter Spilles started the two side projects ImAtem and Santa Hates You .
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The band is now releasing their latest works (the MCD 'Feel!' And the album 'Dream, Tiresias!') Via Prussia Records (GSA), Karma Records (South America) and Trisol (Rest of the World).
In 2011, on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the debut album, an extensive retrospective under the name "First Anthology" was published, which offers an overview of the first creative phase (1991) up to the album "Daimonion" (2001) and a biography with numerous, so far unpublished photos. After that, in 2016 - for the band's 25th anniversary - another, similarly conceived retrospective under the name "Second Anthology" was published, which covers the musical development up to the album "Blood".
philosophy
Project Pitchfork pay special attention to the texts and have developed a kind of own philosophy over the years, which makes use of, among other things, the spiritual currents in ancient Greece, the origins of Christianity and Far Eastern religions. In the most varied of settings, questions are asked from the point of view of more rational, specific forms of life, which put the attentive listener in thought. Rationality and spirituality are mixed up in order to enable the inclined listener to gain new perspectives on themselves and their environment.
The band's spiritual approach is not to preach any salvation teachings or new doctrines, but only to provide the listener with the tool for their own considerations. The access to the topics, which used to be based on external references - often packaged in biting and socially critical texts such as "KNKA", "Vietnam" or "Box of Steel", which dealt with environmental destruction, war and animal experiments - changed over the course of time an inner one. The climax of this tendency was the so-called “NUN trilogy”, which primarily no longer dealt with the “outside”, but instead demanded a subjective examination of the “self”. The texts should no longer conjure up external grievances, but rather lead the listener back to himself.
“ We would like to shake up the audience / visitors and give them food for thought so that they can critically deal with the problems and topics addressed in the texts. But without abusing the index finger mentality as a preacher and presenting our own opinions as solely valid. "
The discography also includes songs that describe the state of fear and fear, as well as some that combine sad topics with enormously strong positive elements.
Discography
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Albums / EPs
- 1990 - KNKA (MC)
- 1991 - Dhyani (LP / CD)
- 1992 - Lam-'bras (LP / CD)
- 1992 - Entities (Box / CD - box set with bonus 3 "CD, limited to 1000 copies)
- 1993 - Souls / Island (EP)
- 1994 - IO (DLP / Box / CD - box set with bonus 3 "CD, limited to 1000 copies)
- 1995 - Corps d'Amour (EP)
- 1995 - Alpha Omega (pre-release / tin box / CD - pre-release limited to 1000 copies)
- 1995 - Ch'i (EP)
- 1997 -! Chakra: Red! (CD)
- 1998 - Eon: Eon (CD + 3 "/ CD)
- 2001 - Daimonion (CD - first edition as lenticular effect edition)
- 2002 - Inferno (CD)
- 2005 - Kaskade (LP / CD)
- 2007 - Wonderland / One Million Faces (CD)
- 2009 - Dream, Tiresias! (CD - first edition with bonus 3 "CD, limited to approx. 5000 copies)
- 2010 - Continuum Ride (CD - first edition with bonus CDM and DVD, limited to 2000 copies)
- 2011 - Quantum Mechanics (CD - first edition with bonus CD, limited to 2000 copies)
- 2013 - Black (CD - first edition with bonus CD, limited to 2000 copies)
- 2014 - Blood (CD - limited first edition with bonus CD)
- 2016 - Look Up, I'm Down There (CD - limited first edition with bonus CD)
- 2018 - Accretion (CD)
- 2018 - Fragment (CD)
Singles / Maxis
- 1991 - Precious New World (7 ", limited to 500 copies)
- 1991 - Psychic Torture (12 "/ CDM - 12" limited to about 1200 copies)
- 1993 - Carrion (CDM)
- 1994 - Renascence (CDM)
- 1996 - En Garde! (CDM)
- 1997 - 2069 AD (Promo CDM)
- 1998 - Steelrose (CDM)
- 1998 - Carnival (CDM)
- 1998 - Little Eon (CDM)
- 1999 - I Live Your Dream (CDM)
- 2001 - Existence 1 - incl. The Clone + Fear (CDM)
- 2001 - Existence 2 - Remixes (CDM)
- 2001 - Timekiller (CDM)
- 2001 - Awakening (Promo CDM)
- 2002 - View from a Throne (CDM, Promo-CDM)
- 2002 - Trialog (CDM, Promo CDM)
- 2005 - Schall und Rauch (Promo CDM)
- 2005 - Altera Forma remixes Project Pitchfork (MP3)
- 2006 - Wonderland (MP3)
- 2006 - One Million Faces (MP3)
- 2006 - I want to live (CDM, together with Unheilig )
- 2007 - Wonderland / One Million Faces (CDM)
- 2008 - Earth Song (CDM, with Sara Noxx )
- 2009 - Feel (CDM)
- 2010 - Remixed (MP3)
- 2011 - Lament (Promo CDM)
Compilations / live albums
- 1996 - The Early Years (CD - German edition limited to 10,000 copies)
- 1997 - Live 97 (CD in tin box, limited to 3,000 copies)
- 2001 - Collector - Lost and Found (DCD)
- 2003 - Collector - Fireworks and Colorchange (DCD)
- 2003 - Live 2003/2001 (CD)
- 2011 - First Anthology (DCD)
- 2016 - Second Anthology (DCD)
Alternative versions / remixes
- 1990 - 2nd step on German Mystic Sound Sampler Volume I (LP / CD)
- 1991 - Inside (Cellar Version 1988) on 040 - Hamburg Strikes Back! (CD)
- 1992 - Caught in the Abattoir on Hy! From Hypnotic to Hypersonic (DCD, limited to 4,500 copies)
- 1994 - Bodies for 5 years Zillo. Anniversary Compilation (1989-1994) (CD)
- 1995 - Renascence (Infinity Mix by Front Line Assembly) on The Tyranny OFF the BEAT (CD)
- 1996 - The Animal (Remix) on E-Beat - Phase II (CD)
- 2005 - Schall und Rauch (Oscillator Mix) on ZilloScope 06/2005 (CD)
- 2009 - Feel! (Sonic Seducer Remix) on Cold Hands Seduction 91 (CD)
- 2009 - Feel! (The Eternal Afflict Remix) on Gothic File Vol. 7 (CD)
- 2012 - Lament (Electronic Saviors Remix) on Electronic Saviors Vol. 2 (4CD)
Video albums
- 1992 - Va I Luce (Eno Nol Si Unir) (VHS, limited to 250 copies)
- 1993 - Entities Tour (VHS)
- 1995 - Glowing Like IO (VHS)
- 1996 - Alpha Omega Live (VHS)
- 1999 - Live '99 (VHS)
- 2002 - Collector - Adapted for the Screen (DVD)
- 2004 - Live 2003 (DVD)
Others
- 1996 - Pictorial (38-page illustrated book)
- 2005 - Russian Existence - A Tribute to Project Pitchfork (CD)
Demoniac Puppets (Project Pitchfork predecessor project)
- 1988 - Embryonal Thoughts (MC, approx. 40 copies)
- 1989 - Feary Tales (MC, approx. 15 copies)
Guest appearances
- 1993 - LIZARD KING - Light my fire (A tribute to Jim Morrison CD)
- 1994 - TRAUMA - Le chant de la baleine (Construct CD)
- 1996 - STILL SILENT - Shockwaved (Sick World CD)
- 2004 - GIRLS UNDER GLASS - Without you (CDM)
- 2006 - UNHEILIG - I want to live (CDM)
- 2010 - NOISUF-X -Creep (Excessive Exposure Bonus CDM)
Web links
- Literature by and about Project Pitchfork in the catalog of the German National Library
- official homepage
- Project pitchfork at Discogs (English)
- Project Pitchfork at MusicBrainz (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g Stefan Brunner: The History of Project Pitchfork - Part 1 , Orkus Musikmagazin , Issue 9/2000, September 2000, p. 39
- ↑ a b Volker Gebhart: Interview with Project Pitchfork , Vertigo Musikmagazin, issue 2/92, p. 19, April 1992
- ↑ Claus Müller: Interview with Project Pitchfork , Orkus Musikmagazin, issue 12/1 December 1996 / January 1997, p. 14
- ↑ Volker Gebhart: Interview with Project Pitchfork , Vertigo Musikmagazin, Edition 2/92, p. 17, April 1992
- ↑ Dirk Scheuber's name appears on the inlay of the Demoniac Puppets demo "Feary Tales".
- ↑ Glasnost Wave magazine: Interview with Project Pitchfork , issue 24/1990, p. 23, November / December 1990
- ^ Zone music magazine: Interview with Project Pitchfork , issue 13/92, January 1992, p. 8
- ↑ a b c d e f g Frank Keil: Interview with Project Pitchfork , Zillo Musikmagazin, edition 9/95, p. 17, September 1995
- ^ Daniel Büchner: Interview with Project Pitchfork , Orkus Musikmagazin, issue 6/97, p. 28, June 1997
- ↑ Michael Irmer: Interview with Project Pitchfork , Electronic Disease, edition 13/94, p. 13, late summer 1994
- ^ Daniel Büchner: Interview with Project Pitchfork , Orkus Musikmagazin, issue 6/97, p. 31, June 1997
- ↑ a b Svenjoy: Interview with Project Pitchfork , Zillo Musikmagazin, issue 3/91, March 1991, p. 9
- ↑ a b c d Joe Asmodo: Interview with Project Pitchfork , Zillo Musikmagazin , issue 2/97, February 1997, p. 17
- ↑ Volker Gebhart: Interview with Project Pitchfork , Vertigo Musikmagazin, Edition 2/92, p. 22, April 1992
- ↑ a b c Zone Musikmagazin: Interview with Project Pitchfork , issue 13/92, January 1992, p. 7
- ↑ Astrid Anke: Interview with Patricia Nigiani , Entry Musikmagazin, October / November 1996 issue, p. 20
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Frank Keil: Interview with Project Pitchfork , Zillo Musikmagazin, issue 9/95, September 1995, p. 16
- ↑ a b Michael Irmer: Interview with Project Pitchfork , Electronic Disease, edition 13/94, p. 11, late summer 1994
- ↑ Scans for the booklet of the album “IO” on www.discogs.com
- ↑ a b Svenjoy: Interview with Project Pitchfork , Zillo Musikmagazin, issue 3/91, March 1991, p. 8
- ^ Zone music magazine: Interview with Project Pitchfork , issue 12/91, November 1991, p. 16
- ↑ a b c Thomas Danninger: The Sun Rises Every Morning - Interview with Project Pitchfork , Sub Line Musikmagazin, issue 11/92, p. 35, November 1992
- ↑ Glasnost Wave magazine: Interview with Project Pitchfork , issue 24/90, p. 22, November / December 1990
- ↑ Volker Gebhart: Interview with Project Pitchfork , Vertigo Musikmagazin, Edition 2/92, p. 18, April 1992
- ↑ Robert Rosowski / Michaela Böttcher: Interview with Project Pitchfork , Entry Musikmagazin, issue 6/95, pp. 26/28, winter 1995
- ^ Zone Musikmagazin: Advertisement for the album Lam-'bras , issue 14/92, March 1992, p. 7
- ↑ Claus Müller: Interview with Project Pitchfork , Orkus Musikmagazin, issue 12/1 December 1996 / January 1997, p. 16
- ↑ Joe Asmodo: Interview with Project Pitchfork , Zillo Musikmagazin, issue 2/97, February 1997, p. 16
- ^ Hysterika: Interview with X Marks the Pedwalk , Issue 1/92, p. 15, 1992
- ↑ a b Side Line Music Magazine: Interview with Aurora , issue 7/93, p. 7
- ↑ Frank Rummeleit: Interview with Project Pitchfork , Zillo Musikmagazin, issue 5/93, May 1993, p. 24/25
- ↑ Robert Rosowski / Michaela Böttcher: Interview with Project Pitchfork , Entry Musikmagazin, issue 6/95, p. 26, winter 1995
- ↑ Svenjoy: Interview with Project Pitchfork , Zillo Musikmagazin, issue 2/94, February 1994, p. 39
- ↑ Timo Hoffmann: Interview with Project Pitchfork , New Life Soundmagazine , issue 4/94, p. 13, April 1994
- ↑ Joe Asmodo: Interview with Project Pitchfork , Sub Line Musikmagazin, Issue 2/94, p. 66, February 1994
- ↑ Joe Asmodo: Interview with Project Pitchfork , Sub Line Musikmagazin, Issue 2/94, p. 67, February 1994
- ↑ Jan Liebricht: Review of the album “IO” , Vertigo Musikmagazin, edition 7/94, p. 42, 1994
- ↑ Revotnik: review of the album "IO" , Issue 1/94, p 22, 1994
- ↑ Stefan Brunner: The History of Project Pitchfork - Part 3 , Orkus Musikmagazin, issue 11/2000, November 2000, p. 82
- ↑ Svenjoy: Interview with REC. , Zillo Musikmagazin, issue 2/95, February 1995, p. 69
- ↑ Jürgen Schneider: Report on Project Pitchfork , Neurostyle Musikmagazin, issue 2/95, October / November / December 1995, p. 12
- ↑ a b Andreas Schmidt: Positive apocalyptic mood - Interview with Project Pitchfork , Vertigo Musikmagazin, issue 1/96, p. 6
- ↑ a b c d Stefan Brunner: The History of Project Pitchfork - Part 3 , Orkus Musikmagazin, issue 11/2000, November 2000, p. 83
- ↑ Oliver Schütte: Interview with Project Pitchfork , New Life Soundmagazine, issue 5/95, p. 7, May 1995
- ^ Rüdiger Freund: Interview with Project Pitchfork , Zillo Musikmagazin, issue 5/96, May 1996, p. 34
- ↑ Andreas Schmidt: Positive end times mood - Interview with Project Pitchfork , Vertigo Musikmagazin, issue 1/96, p. 5
- ↑ a b Louis Zachert: Alpha - Omega: Beginning and End , Interview with Project Pitchfork, Sonic Seducer , Fall / Winter 1995, p. 14
- ↑ Andreas Schmidt: Positive apocalyptic mood - Interview with Project Pitchfork , Vertigo Musikmagazin, issue 1/96, p. 4
- ↑ Claus Müller: Interview with Project Pitchfork , Orkus Musikmagazin, issue 12/1 December 1996 / January 1997, p. 12
- ↑ Claus Müller: Interview with Dirk Scheuber , Orkus Musikmagazin, issue 2/1995, p. 55
- ↑ a b Stefan Brunner: The History of Project Pitchfork - Part 4 , Orkus Musikmagazin, Issue 12/1, December 2000 / January 2001, p. 46
- ↑ a b Chart tracking Germany