Album

Die Kleinen Und Die Bösen

Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft

1980 · Electronic

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Die Kleinen Und Die Bösen by Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft

Die Kleinen Und Die Bösen is an Electronic album by Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, originally released in 1980. On Gatefold: 27 pressings tracked.

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Die Kleinen und die Bösen (The Small and the Evil) is the second album by Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, released on 13 June 1980. It was the first album ever released on Mute Records. Side A and the first track of side B are studio recordings produced by Conny Plank. The remainder of side B is a live recording from the Electric Ballroom, Camden Town, London. For this album, the band was Gabi Delgado-López, Robert Görl, Chrislo Haas, Michael Kemner and Wolfgang Spelmans. Haas, Kemner and Spelmans left before D.A.F.'s breakthrough follow-up album, Alles Ist Gut. Despite the album's low sales, The Allmusic Guide to Electronica notes its influence: "it helped not merely in establishing the group's cachet, but the label's and, in turn, the whole genre of experimental electronic music in the '80s and beyond." Trouser Press notes the band's movement from industrial noise toward modern dance: "Material is more polished, with anarchic synthesizer work slowly integrating a solid, defined beat." Simon Reynolds, in Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978–1984, describes it as "brilliant and sinister".

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Tracklist

Side A

  1. A1Osten Währt Am Längsten
  2. A2Essen Dann Schlafen
  3. A3Co Co Pino
  4. A4Kinderfunk
  5. A5Nacht Arbeit
  6. A6Ich Gebe Dir Ein Stück Von Mir
  7. A7De Panne

Side B

  1. B1Gewalt
  2. B2Gib's Mir
  3. B3Auf Wiedersehen
  4. B4Das Ist Liebe
  5. B5Was Ist Eine Welle
  6. B6Anzufassen Und Anzufassen
  7. B7Volkstanz
  8. B8Die Lustigen Stiefel
  9. B9Die Kleinen Und Die Bösen
  10. B10Die Fesche Lola
  11. B11El Basilon
  12. B12Y La Gracia

Sound DNA

  • Electronic
  • Industrial
  • abrasive
  • intense
  • punky

The B-side is a live recording of DAF at Electric Ballroom, London, February 29, 1980, supporting Wire.
Die Fesche Lola is a cover of Ich Bin Die Fesche Lola / Kinder, Heut' Abend Such Ich Mir Was Aus, but the songwriters are uncredited.

Credits

The people behind it.

Performers

  • Chrislo HaasSYNTHESIZER, TAPE, SAXOPHONE BASS BASS SAXOPHONE
  • Gabi DelgadoVOCALS LYRICS BY , VOCALS VOCALS , LYRICS BY
  • Robert GörlDRUMS, VOCALS DRUMS DRUMS , SYNTH
  • Wolfgang SpelmansGUITAR, SYNTHESIZER GUITAR GUITAR , SYNTH
  • Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft

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