Punishment dance
| Punishment dance | |
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 Punishment dance during the US Tour 2012. |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Futurepop , techno , rave |
| founding | 2006 |
| resolution | 2014 |
| Website | straftanz.de |
Straftanz was a German music project, founded in the summer of 2006, that was run by a loose group of different artists. Those actually responsible hide themselves pseudonymized (j-ing, kx, -jl- and cyberdominator) behind the so-called "punishment dance ZK". Other artists such as Carsten Jacek ( SITD ), Mille Petrozza , Myk Jung ( The Fair Sex ) were involved in the recording of the first album and are mentioned by name there. A reference to the Futurepop project Rotersand has been claimed in various places, but has never been officially confirmed. Straftanz likes to describe its own music in interviews and other publications as "industrial streetfighting dance", a term that is more misleading than descriptive and not common. Calling themselves the "proletariat of the industrial", they claim to make "functional music" that has no pseudo-elitist claim. In fact, Straftanz unites various influences such as future pop, trance, rave, metal and rhythm noise to a sometimes somewhat heterogeneous sound whose red thread lies solely in the ever-present dance groove.
history
The piece Straftanz by the band of the same name initially went viral. Straftanz appeared as a club track at the "six six six" party at Club Sixx PM in Dortmund . The success on the dance floor led to the rapid spread of the piece on a national and international level even before a phonogram was available. Stefan Herwig signed Straftanz shortly afterwards under his independent label Dependent Records . In October 2006, the first punitive dance single Straftanz appeared with surprising success. The piece became an international dance floor hit and reached number 35 in the German Alternative Annual Charts in 2006.
After the closure of Dependent Records, Straftanz switched to the label Scanner from the Dark Dimensions group in 2007 and released the EP Tanz Kaputt, Was Dich Kaputt Macht! , followed a little later by the album Forward Ever . The new material was well received. As a result, Straftanz received extensive press coverage in the magazines of the alternative scene. "Dance Broken What Makes You Broken!" ranked 23rd in the 2008 German Alternative Annual Charts.
In 2009, Straftanz followed VNV Nation on their Of faith, power and glory European tour. In the summer of 2011 the project finished work on its second album "Mainstream Sellout Overground". The album was released on September 16, 2011 in Europe on Scanner, in the USA on Metropolis Records and was presented together with VNV Nation on their Automatic Tour. On November 29, 2013 Straftanz announced on their homepage that the concert at the Resistanz Festival in Sheffield on April 18, 2014 would be the last. The reason given for the dissolution was that the artistic concept of Straftanz was exhausted.
Band name
The idea for the band name arose out of frustration with the club scene in Germany, which at the time Straftanz was founded, from the point of view of its founders, was shaped by repetitive playlists and musical uniformity, as well as by elitist behavior. After an evening at the Eisenlager in Oberhausen, Krischan Wesenberg commented on what he had experienced : “That was another punishment dance today.” The frustration was reflected in the text of her debut, punishment dance , with regard to various clubs in West Germany: “punishment dance in the camp, punishment dance, punishment dance in Fall, Straftanz Matrix, Straftanz im Sixx, Straftanz im Stahlwerk, Straftanz Fabrik. ”It was not until February 2013, a good seven years after its founding, that Straftanz explained the genesis of the name on their website.
Political
In 2009, Straftanz criticized signs of neo-fascist tendencies in the organization of the Wave-Gotik-Treffen . When a black sun was shown on the combination ticket (“custody card”, including ticket and use of the campsite), Strafanz responded with a public statement by rejecting any future cooperation as long as the organizer did not distance itself from a right-wing extremist political context.
Discography
- 2006: Straftanz (Dependent Records)
- 2007: Dance broken what breaks you! (EP, Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
- 2007: Forward Ever (Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
- 2011: Mainstream Sellout Overground (Scanner / Dark Dimensions, Metropolis Records)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ "Punishment Dance - Tearing Down the Walls" in Sonic Seducer , Edition 10/11, pp. 54f
- ↑ Trendcharts: Straftanz - "Straftanz" in 35th place in the alternative annual charts In: http://charts.trendcharts.de/jahrescharts2006/dac_top200/index.html
- ^ Catrin Nordwig: The dance floor guerrilla. In: Sonic Seducer. May edition, 2008, p. 20.
- ↑ Catrin Nordwig: Whatever. In: Sonic Seducer. June edition, 2008, p. 56.
- ↑ Marc Urban: Straftanz In: Orkus. May edition, 2008, p. 78.
- ↑ André Piewak: Punishment dance brings dynamism to the subculture. In: Dark Spy . No. 23, 2008, pp. 60-61.
- ↑ Trend Charts: Punishment Dance - "Dance Kaputt, What Makes You Broke!" in place 23 of the alternative annual charts In: http://charts.trendcharts.de/jahrescharts2008/DAC/index.html
- ↑ Straftanz joins VNV-Nation on Tour: http://straftanz.de/?p=313
- ^ Review, "A magical Evening": http://www.dso.co.uk/gig197.htm
- ↑ Straftanz on Metropolis: http://www.metropolis-records.com/artist/straftanz
- ↑ Announcement of Europe and US tour: http://straftanz.de/?page_id=111
- ↑ We quit. Also we headline Resistance Friday http://straftanz.org/?p=2620
- ↑ a b Straftanz.de: This is what Straftanz was about. (accessed on February 7, 2013)
- ^ ASP, the WGT and the Fascists .: http://straftanz.de/?p=283