Sperm

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Sperm
Studio album from Oomph!

Publication
(s)

1994

Label (s) Noise Records

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

New German Hardness

Title (number)

12

running time

48:59 min.

occupation

production

Oomph!

Studio (s)

Limelight New York

chronology
Oomph!
(1992) 		Sperm Defect
(1995)

Sperm is the second official album of the Braunschweig NDH band Oomph! .

Editions

Limited Edition Black Cover

In addition to the normal and the recycled version, there is also a limited "Black Cover" edition, which, however, only differs from the other versions in terms of appearance: The CD case is made of opaque black plastic with white imprinting. Instead of the skin-colored booklet, the background is black and the printed sperm are red.

Republication

In 2004, Sperm appeared again as part of the “Augen Auf!” Success and, in contrast to the original version, was given five remixes ( Sex (Angelgrinder Mix) , Celebrates the Cross (Pope Mix) , Suck-Taste-Spit ( Milk Mix) , Das ist Freiheit (Jailhouse Mix) , U-Said (Alzheimer Mix) ) expanded.

useful information

Sperm is considered to be the album that ushered in the era of the New German Hardship because, as a release by a German band, it deliberately relied on electronic and rock / metal sounds for the first time . To express this innovation, the sub-label Dynamica was founded, whose pioneer Oomph! were.

The press release that appeared in the new edition of the album:

“The newly created sound was so independent and unorthodox that Machinery decided without further ado to found a new sub-label called Dynamica based on this development , which in future was to sign a number of industrial bands alongside us as quasi-inspirers or forefathers of this label. "

scandal

In the video for the single "Sex", the band showed a couple over 80 having sexual intercourse , which led to the first controversial action.

Track list

  1. Suck-Taste-Spit - 4:41
  2. Sex - 3:06
  3. Was - 4:14
  4. Dickhead - 3:43
  5. Schism - 1:05
  6. Celebrate the Cross - 4:55
  7. Love - 4:23
  8. That is freedom - 5:38
  9. Kismet - 2:47
  10. Breathtaker - 4:54
  11. I am the way - 5:04
  12. U-Said (live) - 4:23

Outcouplings

  • Breathtaker (November 9, 1993)
  • Sex (1994)
  • 3 + 1 (1994)

B-sides

  • Meat (on "3 + 1" single)