Die haut
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Die Haut were an experimental German
post-punk
post-rock band, who enjoyed some local success in the Berlin of the 1980s and 1990s, with one record where Nick Cave
was involved in the mixdown, Burnin' The Ice. The only constant member was Christoph Dreher
.
Formed as an instrumental rock quartet, many of their recordings and live performances featured an array of international guest vocalists.
Their last full-length album was "Spring" (1997) followed by a remix album called "Springer" (1998). At the same time the band went on hiatus, Remo Park and Christoph Dreher
have continued to work as separate acts , and Jochen Arbeit
with Rudi Moser
joined the Berlin-based underground legend Einstürzende Neubauten
.
Guest vocalists live and on recordings include: Nick Cave
, Kid Congo Powers
, Anita Lane
, Debbie Harry
, Paul Outlaw, Mick Harvey
, Jeffrey Lee Pierce
, Blixa Bargeld
, Lydia Lunch
, Alexander Hacke
, Arto Lindsay
, Kim Gordon
, Cristina Martinez, Laurie Tomin, Alan Vega
, Louisa Bradshaw, Danielle de Picciotto
, Gordon W.
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
post-punk
Post-punk
Post-punk is a rock music movement with its roots in the late 1970s, following on the heels of the initial punk rock explosion of the mid-1970s. The genre retains its roots in the punk movement but is more introverted, complex and experimental...
post-rock band, who enjoyed some local success in the Berlin of the 1980s and 1990s, with one record where Nick Cave
Nick Cave
Nicholas Edward "Nick" Cave is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, and occasional film actor.He is best known for his work as a frontman of the critically acclaimed rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, established in 1984, a group known for its eclectic influences and...
was involved in the mixdown, Burnin' The Ice. The only constant member was Christoph Dreher
Christoph Dreher
Christoph Dreher is a German filmmaker, musician and scriptwriter. Since 2000, he has been a professor of audiovisual media....
.
Formed as an instrumental rock quartet, many of their recordings and live performances featured an array of international guest vocalists.
Their last full-length album was "Spring" (1997) followed by a remix album called "Springer" (1998). At the same time the band went on hiatus, Remo Park and Christoph Dreher
Christoph Dreher
Christoph Dreher is a German filmmaker, musician and scriptwriter. Since 2000, he has been a professor of audiovisual media....
have continued to work as separate acts , and Jochen Arbeit
Jochen Arbeit
Jochen Arbeit is a German guitarist. He is a member of the band Einstürzende Neubauten and was a long-time-member of Die Haut , which also included Einstürzende Neubauten percussionist Rudi Moser and Thomas Wydler, drummer of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.Since 2008 he is also working with Gerd...
with Rudi Moser
Rudi Moser
Rudi Moser is the drummer for Einstürzende Neubauten as well as the latest incarnation of Die Haut, which also includes EN guitarist Jochen Arbeit....
joined the Berlin-based underground legend Einstürzende Neubauten
Einstürzende Neubauten
Einstürzende Neubauten is a German post-industrial band, originally from West Berlin, formed in 1980. The group currently comprises Blixa Bargeld , Alexander Hacke , N.U...
.
Membership
- 1982: Christoph DreherChristoph DreherChristoph Dreher is a German filmmaker, musician and scriptwriter. Since 2000, he has been a professor of audiovisual media....
, Remo Park, Martin Peter, Thomas WydlerThomas WydlerThomas Wydler , is a Swiss musician best known for being a core member of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, of which he has been a drummer since 1985. Prior to joining them, he was a member of the experimental German band Die Haut. Wydler has been present on almost every Bad Seeds album, making his...
, Rainer Berson; Berson left later that year. - 1984: Christoph DreherChristoph DreherChristoph Dreher is a German filmmaker, musician and scriptwriter. Since 2000, he has been a professor of audiovisual media....
, Remo Park, Jochen ArbeitJochen ArbeitJochen Arbeit is a German guitarist. He is a member of the band Einstürzende Neubauten and was a long-time-member of Die Haut , which also included Einstürzende Neubauten percussionist Rudi Moser and Thomas Wydler, drummer of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.Since 2008 he is also working with Gerd...
, Thomas Wydler, Oliver Schütz; Rainer Lingk joined later that year. - 1985: Christoph DreherChristoph DreherChristoph Dreher is a German filmmaker, musician and scriptwriter. Since 2000, he has been a professor of audiovisual media....
, Rainer Lingk, Jochen Arbeit, Thomas Wydler. - 1997: Christoph DreherChristoph DreherChristoph Dreher is a German filmmaker, musician and scriptwriter. Since 2000, he has been a professor of audiovisual media....
, Rainer Lingk, Jochen Arbeit, Rudi MoserRudi MoserRudi Moser is the drummer for Einstürzende Neubauten as well as the latest incarnation of Die Haut, which also includes EN guitarist Jochen Arbeit....
.
Guest vocalists live and on recordings include: Nick Cave
Nick Cave
Nicholas Edward "Nick" Cave is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, and occasional film actor.He is best known for his work as a frontman of the critically acclaimed rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, established in 1984, a group known for its eclectic influences and...
, Kid Congo Powers
Kid Congo Powers
Kid Congo Powers is the stage name of Brian Tristan , an American rock guitarist and singer, best known as a member of The Gun Club, The Cramps and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.-Biography:...
, Anita Lane
Anita Lane
Anita Lane is an Australian singer and songwriter who directly influenced the early 1980s European post-punk landscape.-Birthday Party:Lane was born in Melbourne, Australia in the late 1950s. Lane began singing and writing songs at age 16. She was a classmate with Rowland S. Howard who would...
, Debbie Harry
Debbie Harry
Deborah Ann "Debbie" Harry is an American singer-songwriter and actress, best known for being the lead singer of the punk rock and new wave band Blondie. She has also had success as a solo artist, and in the mid-1990s she performed and recorded as part of The Jazz Passengers...
, Paul Outlaw, Mick Harvey
Mick Harvey
Michael John Harvey , is an Australian rock musician, composer, arranger and record producer. He is best known for his long-time collaboration with the singer and songwriter Nick Cave...
, Jeffrey Lee Pierce
Jeffrey Lee Pierce
Jeffrey Lee Pierce was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. He was one of the founding members of the 1980s punk band The Gun Club...
, Blixa Bargeld
Blixa Bargeld
Blixa Bargeld is a composer, author, actor, singer, musician, performer and lecturer in a number of artistic fields...
, Lydia Lunch
Lydia Lunch
Lydia Lunch is an American singer, poet, writer, and actress whose career was spawned by the New York No Wave scene...
, Alexander Hacke
Alexander Hacke
Alexander Hacke is a guitarist, bass guitarist, singer, experimental / industrial / electronic musician from Germany....
, Arto Lindsay
Arto Lindsay
Arthur Morgan Lindsay is an American guitarist, singer, record producer and experimental composer. He is a 1974 graduate of Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida....
, Kim Gordon
Kim Gordon
Kim Althea Gordon is an American musician, vocalist, artist, record producer, video director and actress. She has sung and played bass and guitar in the alternative rock band Sonic Youth, and in Free Kitten with Julia Cafritz...
, Cristina Martinez, Laurie Tomin, Alan Vega
Alan Vega
Alan Vega For several years other sources stated that he was born in 1948 – see 'Myth' section is an American vocalist, primarily known for his work with electronic protopunk duo, Suicide...
, Louisa Bradshaw, Danielle de Picciotto
Danielle de Picciotto
Danielle de Picciotto is an American born artist, musician and film maker. She was born in Washington, USA, but now lives and works in Berlin, Germany...
, Gordon W.
Discography
- Schnelles Leben mini-LP (Monogram 008, 1982)
- Wilde Pferde (Wild Horses)
- Our Captain Speaking (vocal: Rainer Berson)
- Spanisches Öl (Spanish Oil)
- A. Karina
- Gefährliche Nächte (Dangerous Nights)
- Ticket Brasil-New York
- (Never Going Back To) 5th Avenue (vocal: Rainer Berson)
- "Der Karibische Western" 12" (Zensor CM2, 1982), CD (WSFA SF99, 1990)
- Der Karibische Western (vocal: Lydia Lunch)
- Virginia
- Die Faulen Hunde Von Tijuana
- Burning The Ice LP (Illuminated SJAMS30, 1983; Crown Records CROWN1708; Paradoxx PA5502) — vocals: Nick Cave
- Stow-A-Way
- Tokyo Express
- Truck Love
- The Victory
- Pleasure Is The Boss
- Dumb Europe
- This Flame Will Never Die
- "Fandango" 12" (Megadisc MD125283, 1987)
- Fandango
- Burn It Down (vocal: Paul Outlaw credited as John Paul Brasuell)
- Nevada (vocal: Paul Outlaw credited as John Paul Brasuell)
- Headless Body In Topless Bar LP (WSFA SF83, 1988)
- Another Ship In The Night
- Escape From Yoghourt Ranch
- S.H.C.
- Indianapolis, Round 69
- Wheels Over Me
- I Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) (vocal: Nick Cave)
- Sad Dark Eyes (vocal: Mick Harvey)
- You Seen Angel Jesus? (vocal: Kid Congo Powers)
- My Gift To You (vocal: Kid Congo Powers)
- The Bells Belong To The Ashes (vocal: Anita Lane)
- Die Hard LP (WSFA SF91/EFA LP02691, 1989)
- Urge (vocal: Arto Lindsay)
- P.S.Y.C.H.O.
- Coming Through Slaughter
- Aischa
- Garden Of Agony (Pt.2)
- Anschlag!
- Marodeure
- Gesprengte Ketten
- Mean Machine
- A Shady Haze Of Guenther
- Garden Of Agony (Pt.1)
- "Are You Hectic?" 12" by Alert (Die Haut and Blixa Bargeld) (Cash Beat CB17/EFA MCD02817, 1992)
- Perpetual Mobile Mix
- Eclectic Remix
- Blackout Mix
- Head On LP (WSFA SF122/Triple X 51148, 1992)
- Intoxication (vocal: Kim Gordon)
- Don't Fool With The Franchise (vocal: Alan Vega)
- Burn Crying (vocal: Cristina Martinez)
- Don't Cross My Mind (vocal: Debbie Harry)
- Breaking In Your Daydream (vocal: Jeffrey Lee Pierce)
- Johnny Guitar (vocal: Blixa Bargeld)
- Excited (vocal: Kid Congo Powers, Anita Lane)
- Parts Unknown (vocal: Kid Congo Powers, Lydia Lunch)
- Vandal (vocal: Lydia Lunch)
- Doggin' (vocal: Lydia Lunch)
- How Long (Have We Known Each Other Now) (vocal: Blixa Bargeld, Anita Lane)
- Sweat LP (WSFA SF140/Triple X 51184-2, 1993) — live at BerlinBerlinBerlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
Metropol, August 24, 1992, and ApeldoornApeldoornApeldoorn is a municipality and city in the province of Gelderland, about 60 miles south east of Amsterdam, in the centre of the Netherlands. It is a regional centre and has 155,000 . The municipality of Apeldoorn, including villages like Beekbergen, Loenen and Hoenderloo, has over 155,000...
August 1992- (side 1) Psycho
- Truck Love (vocal: Nick Cave, Alex Hacke)
- Anschlag
- Excited (vocal: Kid Congo Powers)
- Parts Unknown (vocal: Kid Congo Powers and Lydia Lunch)
- SHC
- (side 2) Pleasure Is The Boss (vocal: Nick Cave)
- Sad Dark Eyes (vocal: Nick Cave)
- Aischa
- Victory
- Angel Jesus (vocal: Kid Congo Powers)
- Golden Gate (vocal: Kid Congo Powers)
- Another Ship In The Night
- Johnny Guitar (vocal: Blixa Bargeld)
- CD tracklisting: Psycho, Truck Love, Anschlag, SHC, In The Heat Of The Night (CD only; vocal: Kid Congo Powers), Angel Jesus, Pleasure Is The Boss, Sad Dark Eyes, Aischa, Victory, Golden Gate, Parts Unknown, Excited, Another Ship In The Night, Hand (CD only; vocal: Alex Hacke), Johnny Guitar
- Sweat video (WSFA 140V/Triple X 51184-3, 1993) — live video from Tempodrom, Berlin, August 1992, 66 minutes; directed by Rolf S. Wolkenstein
- Victory
- P.S.Y.C.H.O.
- (You Seen) Angel Jesus? (vocal: Kid Congo Powers)
- In The Heat Of The Night (vocal: Kid Congo Powers)
- Jenseits Von Eden (vocal: Alex Hacke)
- Doggin' (vocal: Lydia Lunch)
- Johnny Guitar (vocal: Blixa Bargeld)
- SHC
- Subterranean World/How Long? (vocal: Blixa Bargeld, Anita Lane)
- Sad Dark Eyes (vocal: Nick Cave)
- Pleasure Is The Boss (vocal: Nick Cave)
- Cisco Sunset (vocal: Lydia Lunch)
- Truck Love (vocal: Nick Cave, Alex Hacke)
- Little Doll (vocal: Nick Cave, Kid Congo Powers, Lydia Lunch, Alex Hacke, Blixa Bargeld)
- Spring LP/CD (Our Choice/Rough Trade RTD195.1914.2, 1997) — Thomas Wydler plays only on "At First ... But Then"
- At First ... But Then
- Blood Meridian
- Happy Trails
- Der Still Don
- P/J
- Morituri Te Salutant
- Okinai (vocal: Laurie Tomin, Louisa Bradshaw)
- Cinema Excessiva (vocal: Alex Hacke)
- No Go (vocal: Danielle de Picciotto)
- The Assisi Machine (vocal: Blixa Bargeld, Gordon W.)
- (sign) ("Very Good Friends")
- Springer LP (Our Choice/Rough Trade RTD195.3363.2, 1998) — remixes of Spring
- Morituri Te Salutant (remix by Scanner)
- Okinai (remix by Atom Heart)
- Cinema Excessiva (remix by Hans Nieswandt)
- Okinai (remix by Jim O'Rourke)
- The Assisi Machine (remix by Deep Space Network)
- Sleepwalker (remix by Oval)
- Sleepwalker (remix by Mad Professor)
- (sign) (remix by Air Liquide)
- (sign) (remix by To Rococo Rot)
- At First ... But Then (remix by Andy Hawkins)
- The Assisi Machine (remix by Alan Vega)
- "Cinema Excessiva" (Hans Nieswandt remix) (Rough Trade, 1998)
Compilation appearances
- "My Gift To You" on Sleep? cassette (Heiliger Strohsack Kartell, 1984)
- "Nevada" on Berlin Now video, 1985
External links
- Die Haut Discography (Maurice Maes)