The Robocop Kraus

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The Robocop Kraus
The Robocop Kraus at the Festival Internacional de Benicàssim 2005
The Robocop Kraus at the Festival Internacional de Benicàssim 2005
General information
Genre (s) Post punk
founding 1998
Website www.therobocopkraus.de
Founding members
Thomas Lang
Matthias Wendl
Roman Maul
Johannes Uschalt
Current occupation
Thomas Lang
Matthias Wendl
Tobias Helmlinger (1999–2006; since 2014)
Hans Christian Fuss
Markus Steckert
former members
Robin van Velzen (2010-2011)
Peter Tiedeken (2006-2008)

The Robocop Kraus is a five-piece post-punk band from Hersbruck near Nuremberg . The music played is a mix of punk , soul , pop and hardcore punk . The former Spex editor Uwe Viehmann describes the music of Robocop Kraus as " post-hardcore with lots of credibility, post-punk, positive indie euphoria and a not insignificant amount of pop ".

history

In 1998 Robocop Kraus was founded as a side project from the bands Cyan and Maggat . The condition was that the respective members play different instruments than in the previous projects. A little later Roman Maul was replaced by Tobias Helmlinger and the band was completed with keyboardist Markus Steckert. Her first record will be released on the in-house label Swing Deluxe , her second album on the Czech label Day After . With their third album Living with other People , the press became aware of Robocop Kraus, the record was released on the Hamburg label L'age d'or . The fourth studio album They think they are the Robocop Kraus , produced by Pelle Gunnerfeldt , who has also produced The Hives and The (International) Noise Conspiracy , is not only released on L'age d'or, but also on the US punk label Epitaph Records . At the same time, Hidalgo drummer Hans-Christian Fuss replaces founding member Johannes Uschalt on drums, who wanted to concentrate on his career as a high school teacher and is now teaching at the Dürer high school in Nuremberg. Together with the British shooting stars Art Brut , the band toured the United States in 2006.

In the summer of 2006, the band received a sponsorship award from the city of Nuremberg worth 5000 euros . In September 2006 bassist Tobias Helmlinger announced that he was leaving the band in order to “concentrate on other things”, according to the official announcement. The most recent album, Blunders & Mistakes , was released on September 21, 2007, with Peter Tiedeken playing bass, but who left the band in summer 2008.

Robin van Velzen (The Mother The Son And The Holy Ghost) became the band's new bass player. Robocop Kraus worked with him on a new studio album, which was announced in 2010 but never came out. The band's website was not updated from May 2010 to April 2014; the last concert date announced there was July 23, 2010. During this period there were no more official announcements or interviews by the band or its members. Art Brut's front man , Eddie Argos, who was friends with Robocop Kraus singer Thomas Lang , said in an interview in August 2013 that The Robocop Kraus had unfortunately disbanded.

On April 1, 2014, the organizers of the Phono Pop Festival in Rüsselsheim announced on their Facebook page that the band would play a reunion at the 9th Phono Pop Festival in mid-July 2014. The band also performed at the Fusion Festival 2014. Founding member Tobias Helmlinger was a member of the band again as a bassist. In 2015, 2016 and also in early 2017 the group continued to play sporadic concerts, including a. at the Agratamagatha Festival.

Discography

Albums

  • 1999: Inferno Nihilistique 2000
  • 2001: Tiger
  • 2003: Living With Other People
  • 2005: They Think They Are The Robocop Kraus
  • 2007: Blunders And Mistakes

EPs

  • 1998: The Robocop Kraus / The Cherryville (split LP)
  • 2003: Fake Boys
  • 2005: Who Do They Think They Are
  • 2009: Metabolism Maximus

Others

  • 2002: As Long As We Dance We Are Not Dead (compilation)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ therobocopkraus.net . therobocopkraus.net. Archived from the original on June 5, 2010. Retrieved March 6, 2014.
  2. ↑ Listening to records with Eddie Argos (Art Brut) . taz.de. Archived from the original on August 21, 2013. Retrieved March 6, 2014.
  3. ↑ Facebook entry of the organizers of the Phono Pop Festival
  4. ↑ kraus.html Line-Up Agratamagatha Festival 2015