Dance with Laibach
Tanz mit Laibach is a piece of music by the Slovenian band Laibach . It was released on the 2003 album WAT .
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Compared to previous works since Kapital, the music sounds stricter and darker and “actually encourages you to perhaps take a few steps on the dance floor. Pounding rhythms, as we know them from DAF , and the powerful voice of MILAN FRAS make the song a successful experiment in the direction of dance music. ”The style is electronic-minimalist and oriented towards techno .
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According to the band , the album is "among other things about time, eternity, the West's fear of immigrants or barbarians, God , the attraction of opposites, good and evil and its abuse, as well as the determination of right and wrong, the call to revolution, the concept of anti-Semitism , and the apocalypse that may never happen ”. WAT is more militant in tone than any publication since Capital . Tanz mit Laibach “also seems to be a political positioning of yourself between ' Ado Hinkel , Benito Napoloni [sic!] And Schicklegrüber ' [sic!] Or rather totalitarianism , democracy , fascism and ' red anarchy '. The song also contains a criticism of today's hierarchy of values: 'We are all crucified / and all are broken / from stimulus technology / time economy / from quality of life / and war philosophy'. "Originally, Laibach wanted passages of the German Quote from volume DAF , for which Laibach did not give permission. The text has been edited as a result. DAF served as inspiration for Tanz mit Laibach , the text, according to Laibach, deals with the problems of political friendship between Germany and the United States; the US helped Germany in the post-war period, and perhaps “Germany, which will ultimately play a central role in Europe, will soon have the opportunity to help America in the same way in its never-ending and exhausting fight against the evil in the world.” At the time, the relationship between Germany and the United States was tense because Germany did not want to participate in the Iraq war .
“It seemed like the roles had been reversed in the story that a peaceful Germany took a stance against an aggressive US. The USA could help provide hot troops or help in the form of an indication that the evil is not necessarily on another continent, but in its own political-fundamentalist development, in which scapegoats are constructed to justify a policy of aggression. "
At the same time, Tanz mit Laibach “is also a song about Laibach, about the joy and happiness that we feel as ambassadors of freedom and missionaries of truth. We believe we can bring these two and other great states together if they only listen carefully to what we have to say to them. If we succeed, we can all dance happily [sic!] For all eternity. If we don't succeed, this dance will end much earlier. "
Music video
In the video for Tanz mit Laibach , singer Milan Fras marches “in a prancing manner, but without moving, head-on to the camera, against the background of various projections that quote, among other things, moments from earlier works”. In between, recordings of the marching singer's boots are faded in. “You sometimes get the impression that the singer is serving as a projection surface into which different positions can be read, such as those of the USA, Germany, the listener or Laibach himself, whereby these can overlap at the same time, such as here: 'Amerikano Friends, And German comrade, We dance well together, We dance to Badgdad. ' Or in a clearer way: 'We dance Ado Hinkel, Bezino Napoloni, We dance Schiekelgruber [sic!], And dance with Maitreya, With totalitarianism, And with democracy, We dance with fascism, And red anarchy.' "
Fras wears a uniform with a badge and “in contrast to the 80s, appears here as an erotic, serious and in a certain sense also charismatic leader. [...] The caricaturing in its appearance has completely disappeared and elements that are grotesque are missing. The insecurity of the consumer is not created by another member, but solely by his presence in combination with stimulating words such as 'fascism' or 'democracy' and the projection of an animated army of dancing skeletons. "According to Eva-Maria Hanser, this is effective. “Like a call not to be deceived by appearances and instead to combine or to recognize the wolf in sheep's clothing. What is expressed is that what is propagated as 'evil' does not exist in this form and is not compatible with the idea of a grotesque grimace (from the Middle East, for example ), but is part of an expansion policy that wears an American uniform. The dance with the army of skeletons reflects the enthusiasm for war and propaganda, in which war is represented like a party, and also contains the reference to the oldusserian Pascal: Dance with us and faith will come of itself! "
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Eva-Maria Hanser: Ideotopie . Playing with the ideology and utopia of 'Laibach art'. Vienna 2010, p. 39–41 ( univie.ac.at [PDF; accessed June 27, 2012]).
- ↑ a b Andras Mikat: LAIBACH: WAT. Nonpop, accessed June 27, 2012 .
- ↑ Marc Urselli: Ljubljana. Chain DLK, August 30, 2008, accessed June 27, 2012 .