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Oldschool EBM
« on: September 09, 2021, 04:07:37 AM »


German proto-EBM band DAF created the "muscles & machines" image – the basic concept of electronic body music



Electronic body music (EBM) is a genre of electronic music that combines elements of industrial music and synth-punk with elements of dance music. It developed in the early 1980s in Western Europe as an outgrowth of both punk and industrial music cultures. It combines sequenced repetitive basslines, programmed dance music rhythms, and mostly undistorted vocals and commandlike shouts with confrontational or provocative themes.

The evolution of the genre reflected "a general shift towards more song-oriented structures in industrial as to a general turn towards the dancefloor by many musicians and genres in the era of post-punk." It was considered a part of the European new wave and post-punk movement and the first style that blended synthesized sounds with an ecstatic style of dancing (e.g. pogo).

EBM gained a stable following in the second half of the 1980s. Around that period, a youth-cultural scene emerged from EBM whose followers describe themselves as EBM-heads or (in North America) as rivetheads.

The term electronic body music was first used by Ralf Hütter of the German electronic band Kraftwerk in an interview with British music newspaper Sounds in November 1977. In June 1978 Hütter reused the phrase in an interview with WSKU radio (Kent, Ohio) to explain the more physical chracter of the Kraftwerk album The Man-Machine. Although the term originated in the late 1970s, it was not until the 1980s when it reappeared and started to come into popular use.

EBM stands for 'electronic body music', a term which only really came into use when the Brits and Belgians stepped into the 'sequencer business' with bands like Nitzer Ebb and Front 242. There you could find that sound again, where it was catchily picked up and labelled. In our days all these terms didn't exist, not 'industrial' nor 'post-punk'. [...] To us it was sequencer music, that was what we did.

— Jurgen Engler of Die Krupps
In 1981, DAF from Germany employed the term "Körpermusik" (body music) to describe their danceable electronic punk sound. The term "electronic body music" was later used by Belgian band Front 242 in 1984 to describe the music of their EP of that year titled No Comment.

Described as an outgrowth of "electronically generated punk [music] intertwined with industrial sounds," EBM has been characterized as a composite of programmed drum beats, repetitive basslines, and clear or slightly distorted vocals, instructional shouts or growls complemented with reverberation and echo effects. Typical EBM rhythms rely on the 4/4 beat or rock-oriented backbeats, (featuring kick drum, snare and hi-hat) and some minor syncopation.

EBM evolved from a combination of post-punk, industrial and post-industrial music sources, including The Normal, Suicide, DAF, Die Krupps, Killing Joke, Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle and Test Dept. but also krautrock and Berlin school artists such as Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream (who had used electronic bass sequences as a basic feature in their productions).

The song “Warm Leatherette” (The Normal, 1978) stands at the beginning of an important development, the electrified version of Punk that had been picked up and transformed in Düsseldorf by bands like Die Krupps, DAF and Liaisons Dangereuses, music that might be called proto-EBM at least. […] The role of sequencers, synthesizer and drum machine sounds for the creative process itself and its results are another interesting point concerning EBM. The use of these instruments contributed obviously to the formation of danceable grooves and sound textures that attracted a wider audience.

Other influences include the synth-pop music of The Human League and Fad Gadget; and the krautrock-inspired dance hit “I Feel Love” by Giorgio Moroder and Donna Summer. Daniel Bressanutti (Front 242), who helped establish the term EBM, named the soundscapes of Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze as additional influences along Kraftwerk, Throbbing Gristle, the sequencer-based electro-disco of Giorgio Moroder, and the punk movement.

1981–1987
Emerging in the early 1980s in Germany and Belgium, bands such as DAF, Die Krupps, Liaisons Dangereuses, and Front 242 started to blend danceable rhythms and repetitive sequencer lines. At the time the genre arose, style-defining synthesizers included Korg MS-20, Roland SH-101, ARP Odyssey, Emulator II, along with several Oberheim and Yamaha models.

Archetypical songs are Verschwende deine Jugend, Alle gegen alle and Der Mussolini by DAF; Wahre Arbeit, wahrer Lohn, Goldfinger and Für einen Augenblick by Die Krupps; Etre assis ou danser, Los niños del parque and Avant-après mars by Liaisons Dangereuses, and Body to Body, U-Men and He Runs Too Fast for Us by Front 242.

Front 242 characterized their approach as somewhere between Throbbing Gristle and Kraftwerk. Nitzer Ebb and Portion Control, influenced by DAF and Cabaret Voltaire, followed soon after. Groups from this era often applied socialist realist aesthetics, with ironic intent. Other prominent artists were Pankow, Vomito Negro, Borghesia, The Neon Judgement, à;GRUMH..., A Split-Second, The Klinik, and Signal Aout 42.

1988–1993
In the second half of the 1980s, the genre became popular in Canada (Front Line Assembly) and the U.S. (Ministry, Revolting Cocks, Schnitt Acht) as well as in Sweden (Inside Treatment, Pouppée Fabrikk, Cat Rapes Dog) and Japan (2nd Communication, DRP, Soft Ballet). North American bands started to use EBM-typical bass sequences and combined them with the roughness of (hardcore) punk and thrash metal (cf. industrial metal). Nine Inch Nails continued the cross-pollination between EBM and rock music resulting in the album Pretty Hate Machine (1989).

Meanwhile, EBM became successful in the underground club scene, particularly in Europe. In this period the most important labels were the Belgian Play It Again Sam and Antler-Subway, the German Zoth Ommog, the North American Wax Trax! and the Swedish Energy Rekords. Notable acts at that time included And One, Armageddon Dildos, Bigod 20, Insekt, Scapa Flow, Orange Sector, Paranoid, and Electro Assassin.

Between the early and mid-1990s, many EBM artists ceased activities or changed their musical direction, incorporating more elements of rock, heavy metal and electronica. The album 06:21:03:11 Up Evil by Front 242 initiated the end of the EBM era of the 1980s. Nitzer Ebb, one of the most important purveyors of the genre, turned into an alternative rock band. Without the strength of its figureheads, electronic body music as a discernable music style faded by the mid-1990s.

Revival

In the late 1990s and after the millennium, Belgian, Swedish and German artists such as Ionic Vision, Tyske Ludder, and Spetsnaz had reactivated the style. Based on this revival, Sweden and East Germany then became the centre of the movement spawning a variety of newcomers such as Dupont, Proceed, and Sequenz-E. Primarily as a counteracting force against the expanding futurepop scene, these artists followed a neo-traditionalistic path, often referred to as "old school EBM".

Simultaneously, a number of European techno producers started incorporating elements of EBM into their sound. This tendency grew in parallel with the emerging electroclash scene and, as that scene started to decline, artists partly associated with it, such as The Hacker, DJ Hell, Green Velvet, Black Strobe, and David Carretta, moved towards this techno/EBM crossover style.

There has been increasing convergence between this scene and the old school EBM scene. Some artists have remixed each other. Most notably, Terence Fixmer joined with Nitzer Ebb's Douglas McCarthy to form Fixmer/McCarthy.


Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft - Der Mussolini (HD music video 1981)




DAF - der Sheriff [Anti-Amerikanische version]




DAF - Ich Und Die Wirklichkeit




DAF - Greif nach den Sternen




DAF - Liebe auf den Ersten Blick






DAF - SATO SATO (WESTBAM/ML Remix) Official Video




DAF - Der Raeuber und der Prinz (Original Video) - 1981




DAF - El Que (Video)




DAF - Brothers












DAF on Making Music With No Tradition | Red Bull Music Academy

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Re: Oldschool EBM
« Reply #1 on: September 09, 2021, 04:15:50 AM »
Container 90 - United




Container 90 - Guttersnipe


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Re: Oldschool EBM
« Reply #2 on: September 09, 2021, 04:20:22 AM »
Ad:KeY - That's It




AD:Key - Hoch die Hämmer


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Re: Oldschool EBM
« Reply #3 on: September 09, 2021, 04:27:22 AM »
Spetznaz - Apathy




Straftanz - Tanzt Kaputt, Was Euch Kaputt Macht! (Straftanz Original)


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Re: Oldschool EBM
« Reply #4 on: September 09, 2021, 04:32:03 AM »
UGH...! Banana



Chrome Corpse

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« Reply #5 on: September 09, 2021, 04:43:23 AM »
ELITE! - Work or Riot




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Re: Oldschool EBM
« Reply #6 on: September 09, 2021, 04:50:26 AM »
Orange Sector - I Hate You




Orange Sector - Fascination


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« Reply #7 on: September 09, 2021, 05:15:35 AM »
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That Orange Sector song has haunted me for 22 years! I heard it at a club, and could never figure out who it was
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« Reply #8 on: September 09, 2021, 05:16:16 AM »
Spark! - Infectious [Feat. Spetsnaz]




DARKMEN - Legs Like Gold



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« Reply #9 on: September 09, 2021, 07:43:19 PM »
Spetsnaz - Reign of Wolves

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« Reply #10 on: September 13, 2023, 12:37:49 AM »


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« Reply #11 on: February 02, 2024, 07:27:26 AM »





FEED THE EBM MACHINES!
by ELECTRONATION EBM





released January 3, 2024






STOP THE WAR! (EBM & INDUSTRIAL TRACKS)
by ELECTRONATION EBM




 EBM & INDUSTRIAL: CLASSIC GENERATION 3, V.A. - EBM OLDSCHOOL & ANHALT [09], V​.​A. - ANHALT & EBM OLDSCHOOL [07], EBM HAMMER AND ANVIL: OLDSCHOOL & ANHALT, ELECTRONATION: EBM KILLER TRACKS! (MILDREDA EFFECT), DJ SET MIX [04] EBM OLDSCHOOL & ANHALT, EBM & INDUSTRIAL (OLDSCHOOL 80'/ 90'), EBM & INDUSTRIAL: CLASSIC GENERATION 2, V.A. - EBM TRACKS REMIXED by PLASTIC NOISE EXPERIENCE, DJ SET MIX [05] TRACKS REMIXED by PLASTIC NOISE EXPERIENCE, DJ SET MIX [03] HISPANIC EBM OLDSCHOOL & ANHALT, STOP THE WAR! (EBM & INDUSTRIAL TRACKS), V.A. - EBM OLDSCHOOL & ANHALT [06], V​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​A. - EBM OLDSCHOOL & ANHALT [05], V.A. ANHALT & EBM OLDSCHOOL [08], V​​​​​​​.​​​​​​​A. - EBM OLDSCHOOL & ANHALT [04], V​​​.​​​A - EBM OLDSCHOOL & ANHALT [03], V​.​A. - EBM OLDSCHOOL & ANHALT [10], NEW BEATS: VINIL VERSIONS 2, EBM & INDUSTRIAL: CLASSIC GENERATION, V.A. - EBM ELECTRO SOLDIER, NEW BEAT: VINIL VERSION, V​.​A. - EBM OLDSCHOOL & ANHALT [02], DJ SET MIX [01] EBM OLDSCHOOL & ANHALT, E.B.M. Elektronisch Herrschaft, V.A. - EBM & INDUSTRIAL: Brasil Edition, V.A. - NEW BEAT: CLASSIC GENERATION!, V.A. - EBM OLDSCHOOL & ANHALT [01], DJ SET MIX [02] EBM OLDSCHOOL & ANHALT, and V​.​A. - NEW BEAT: CLASSIC GENERATION 2.



V​.​A. - EBM OLDSCHOOL & ANHALT [09]
by ELECTRONATION EBM




EBM & INDUSTRIAL: CLASSIC GENERATION 3, V.A. - EBM OLDSCHOOL & ANHALT [09], V​.​A. - ANHALT & EBM OLDSCHOOL [07], EBM HAMMER AND ANVIL: OLDSCHOOL & ANHALT, ELECTRONATION: EBM KILLER TRACKS! (MILDREDA EFFECT), DJ SET MIX [04] EBM OLDSCHOOL & ANHALT, EBM & INDUSTRIAL (OLDSCHOOL 80'/ 90'), EBM & INDUSTRIAL: CLASSIC GENERATION 2, V.A. - EBM TRACKS REMIXED by PLASTIC NOISE EXPERIENCE, DJ SET MIX [05] TRACKS REMIXED by PLASTIC NOISE EXPERIENCE, DJ SET MIX [03] HISPANIC EBM OLDSCHOOL & ANHALT, STOP THE WAR! (EBM & INDUSTRIAL TRACKS), V.A. - EBM OLDSCHOOL & ANHALT [06], V​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​A. - EBM OLDSCHOOL & ANHALT [05], V.A. ANHALT & EBM OLDSCHOOL [08], V​​​​​​​.​​​​​​​A. - EBM OLDSCHOOL & ANHALT [04], V​​​.​​​A - EBM OLDSCHOOL & ANHALT [03], V​.​A. - EBM OLDSCHOOL & ANHALT [10], NEW BEATS: VINIL VERSIONS 2, EBM & INDUSTRIAL: CLASSIC GENERATION, V.A. - EBM ELECTRO SOLDIER, NEW BEAT: VINIL VERSION, V​.​A. - EBM OLDSCHOOL & ANHALT [02], DJ SET MIX [01] EBM OLDSCHOOL & ANHALT, E.B.M. Elektronisch Herrschaft, V.A. - EBM & INDUSTRIAL: Brasil Edition, V.A. - NEW BEAT: CLASSIC GENERATION!, V.A. - EBM OLDSCHOOL & ANHALT [01], DJ SET MIX [02] EBM OLDSCHOOL & ANHALT, and V​.​A. - NEW BEAT: CLASSIC GENERATION 2.

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