Woog riots
| Woog riots | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Darmstadt , Germany |
| Genre (s) | Indie-pop , electro-pop , anti-folk |
| founding | 2004 |
| Website | www.woogriots.de |
| Current occupation | |
| Silvana Battisti | |
| Marc Herbert | |
The Woog Riots are a music group that consists of Silvana Battisti and Marc Herbert.
history
Her pop career began in 2004 with a self-compiled international tribute album for the Manchester indie icon The Fall , in which her bandmate Mathias Hill ( rock formation Diskokugel ) was also involved. The compilation was published by the Hamburg record leader Alfred Hilsberg on his label What's So Funny About . The first three Woog Riots albums were subsequently released on What's So Funny About. Rapidly changing band constellations in 2008 meant that Silvana Battisti and Marc Herbert only worked as a duo.
In their English Dreiminuten- garages - Broadway -Hits the Woog Riots phenomena deal of culture, pop and politics. Foreign tours in the USA, Great Britain, Finland, Italy, Poland and the Netherlands led to enthusiastic reactions and to a constant growth of the own underground network. “From Lo-Fi to Disco!” Not only describes the components of the musical world of the Woog Riots, but is also the name of their own label, founded in 2013. Her album From Lo-Fi to Disco was released here in the same year ! . Silvana Battisti and Marc Herbert are working on the new field of activity with such great enthusiasm that albums by "Umwerschweifende Producers" (aka Knarf Rellöm ) and "The Spaghetti Wings" have now also been released here.
In February 2013 the Woog Riots created a song as an invitation to the exhibition "Powerpoint" by Michael Riedel in the rooms of the top New York gallery owner David Zwirner . The New York press described the song as "an up-beat, euro-pop dance tune that sounds like a kid's band version of Kraftwerk". In 2014 the Woog Riots recorded the song The Story of Pop , which was released as a download single together with Karl Bruckmaier 's book of the same name.
Her fifth album was released in March 2016, named after Alan Rusbridger , the former editor-in-chief and publisher of the British daily newspaper The Guardian , and featuring several songs about the events of the whistleblower Edward Snowden .
The title of their sixth album Cut-up and Paste , which was released in March 2019, describes the way the band works. "We take existing snippets of music history and interpret them completely differently, similar to hip-hop, only that we don't sample anything, we do everything new," explain Silvana and Marc. This is how electro-pop collages are created, the catchyness of which lies in imperfect beauty. Garage glam between bubblegum and power plant. Recorded in the living room at home, post-processed and mixed by Lolo Blümler and techno musician and producer Jörn Elling Wuttke (Alter Ego, Sensorama, Acid Jesus). Text: Biggy Pop
Press quotes
"The Woog Riots prove once again that everything can work together: to combine pop and politics with art and humor in such a way that you have to whistle along the whole time and enjoy how trendy criticism can be."
"Aesthetically, the anti-folk references that were said to" Strangelove TV ", the first album by the German-Italian duo, are no longer effective, instead there is tweezy rave and disco with a Nico accent."
Discography
Albums
- 2006: Strangelove TV (CD / Vinyl, What's So Funny About / Indigo )
- 2008: PASP (CD, What's So Funny About / Indigo)
- 2012: Post Bomb Chronicles (CD / Vinyl, What's So Funny About / Ritchie Records / Broken Silence )
- 2013: From Lo-Fi to Disco! (CD / Vinyl, From Lo-Fi to Disco! / Broken Silence)
- 2016: Alan Rusbridger (Vinyl, From Lo-Fi to Disco! / Broken Silence)
- 2019: Cut-up and Paste (CD / Vinyl, From Lo-Fi to Disco! / Broken Silence)
Singles
- 2004: King of Pop (7 "single, What's So Funny About)
- 2009: People Working with Computers (7 "split single with Schwervon ! , Decoy Industry)
- 2014: The Story of Pop (download single)
Sampler contributions
- Perverted by Mark E. - A Tribute to The Fall - compiled by Woog Riots & Alfred Hilsberg (ZickZack / Indigo) - Contribution: Mark E. Smith & Brix , 2004
- Spex CD # 79 - Article: People Working with Computers , June 2008
- Musikexpress CD # 140 - Contribution: Backstage Lemonade , September 2008
- Alexander Kluge - Chronicle of Emotions (audio book, 14 CDs) - Contribution: King Midas , 2009
- Rolling Stone Magazin CD Rare Trax Vol. 76: Kick & Rush, Berlin - Article Football Round the Clock , June 2012
Web links
- Official website
- Woog Riots at laut.de
- Woog riots at Discogs (English)