KMFDM - Tohuvabohu

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KMFDM are an industrial band from Germany, who's been around since 1984. I'm not even going to attempt to go through all their controversial history in details, this entry is just for their 16th studio album Tohuvabohu (Aug 2007).

The man behind KMFDM is named Sascha Konietzko, who created the band as an art/performance work in France. KMFDM stands for "Kein Mehrheit Für Die Mitleid" which translate to "no majority for the pity".

"Looking For Strange" is my favorite track off the new album, Tohuvabohu. Suprisingly their sound hasn't changed much since the first time I heard of them with "A Drug Against War" from 1993. This particular song sounds more like a mix of industrial dance and darkwave and you can clearly hear the vocals from Lucia Cifarelli. Incidentally she officially married Konietzko a few years ago, having been with the band since 1999 when the band was known as MDFMK.

As with all the KMFDM's artwork, this is another pop-art from Aidan "BRUTE!" Hughes. The original artwork's background was replaced with a different background, and the artist was apparently less than thrilled about it:

New KMFDM cover
Thursday, June 7, 2007, written by Rakem 'Rak' Rakem

I recently submitted my final draft for the recently-released KMFDM album 'Tohuvabohu'. However, when I saw the print version, the background was entirely different to my version. When I asked why it had been changed, I was informed by KMFDM that it had been 'remixed'. I'm not a big fan of music and know even less of its workings but don't artists usually have a say in how their music is remixed? It's like discovering the babysitter has tattooed a rude name on your kid's head.

In February, KMFDM is planning on releasing Brimborium, which is basically Tohuvabohu remixed by different DJs and mixers. Perhaps if you ever got tired of Tohuvabohu's original songs, you might enjoy the remixes.

Reading their announcement it's targetted toward dance fanatics: "offering dancefloor freaks and ultra heavy beat fans a disc that is packed with remixes and never before released material."

 01/05/2008 19:14:55  vu my♥posts www.kmfdm.net myspace