Phallus Über Alles
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Phallus Über Alles is a digital hardcore
band from Bloomington, Indiana
. The group combines layered female shouts, distorted beats, and punk guitars with feminist and anarcho-political lyrical themes.
as a solo project for Diesel Sam, who was a founding member of the noise band Slave Cylinder along with bandmate Remy Brecht. Previously, the group had been using their ventures into the digital hardcore sound as encores for their live performances, with Diesel screaming improvised rants over the music. After relocating to Las Vegas in 2001, Diesel began to refine these pieces into finished songs. Live shows during this period include a performance at the Avant Garden festival and a set at punk venue The Cooler Lounge.
After moving to New Hampshire in 2003, the band recorded a four-song demo and sent it to labels. Atari Teenage Riot
member Hanin Elias
expressed interest in signing the project to Fatal Recordings
, and the Iron Woman album was released worldwide in November 2004.
This same year, Phallus Über Alles performed at the Detroit Electronic Music Festival
(abbreviated DEMF, now the Movement Festival) along with such acts as Cdatakill, Iszoloscope
, Larvae
, and Xanopticon
.
The next year, PÜA moved to Detroit and began to play shows regularly in and around the area, including such events as the Alec Empire
-endorsed Digital Hardcore Festival in Toronto and the Industrial Movement II festival at St. Andrews Hall
in Detroit alongside such bands as DJ? Acucrack
, The Final Cut
, and Meat Beat Manifesto
. They released a new EP, Les Femmes de la Guerre, on D-Trash Records
in 2007.
As of 2009, the band is completing work on a five-piece series of EPs collectively titled "Five Fingers Make a Fist" and tracks for their seond album, which is tentatively titled Le Femme Terrible.
Digital hardcore
Digital hardcore is a subgenre of hardcore punk incorporating influences from electronic music. Digital hardcore fuses elements of hardcore punk with various forms of electronic music...
band from Bloomington, Indiana
Bloomington, Indiana
Bloomington is a city in and the county seat of Monroe County in the southern region of the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 80,405 at the 2010 census....
. The group combines layered female shouts, distorted beats, and punk guitars with feminist and anarcho-political lyrical themes.
Members / History
Phallus Über Alles began in 20002000 in music
See also:* 2000 in music Record labels established in 2000-Events:*January – Gary Glitter is released from jail, two months before his sentence for sexual offences ends.*January 1**John Tavener is knighted in the New Year's Honours List....
as a solo project for Diesel Sam, who was a founding member of the noise band Slave Cylinder along with bandmate Remy Brecht. Previously, the group had been using their ventures into the digital hardcore sound as encores for their live performances, with Diesel screaming improvised rants over the music. After relocating to Las Vegas in 2001, Diesel began to refine these pieces into finished songs. Live shows during this period include a performance at the Avant Garden festival and a set at punk venue The Cooler Lounge.
After moving to New Hampshire in 2003, the band recorded a four-song demo and sent it to labels. Atari Teenage Riot
Atari Teenage Riot
'Atari Teenage Riot' is a German digital hardcore group formed in Berlin in 1992. The name was taken from a Portuguese Joe song 'Teenage Riot' from the 'Teen-age Riot' album, with the word 'Atari' added as an Atari ST computer was used to create compositions...
member Hanin Elias
Hanin Elias
Hanin Elias is a German industrial/techno artist. She was a member of Atari Teenage Riot and is now a solo artist....
expressed interest in signing the project to Fatal Recordings
Fatal Recordings
Fatal Recordings is a feminist record label, established by German industrial / techno artist Hanin Elias.Fatal focuses on left-wing political music. It was formed in part because Hanin Elias felt that women did not have a place to record and create electronic music...
, and the Iron Woman album was released worldwide in November 2004.
This same year, Phallus Über Alles performed at the Detroit Electronic Music Festival
Detroit Electronic Music Festival
The Detroit Electronic Music Festival , and its successors comprise an annual series of electronic dance music showcases held in Detroit each Memorial Day weekend since 2000...
(abbreviated DEMF, now the Movement Festival) along with such acts as Cdatakill, Iszoloscope
Iszoloscope
Iszoloscope is an industrial band from Aylmer, Quebec, currently based in Montreal. Iszoloscope's music ranges from harsh, rhythmic noise to ambient soundscapes...
, Larvae
Larvae
In Roman mythology, lemures were shades or spirits of the restless or malignant dead, and are probably cognate with an extended sense of larvae as disturbing or frightening...
, and Xanopticon
Xanopticon
Ryan Friedrich , better known by his moniker Xanopticon, is an electronic musician. One of breakcore's most prominent producers, he has toured internationally and released music with several electronic labels including Hymen Records, Mirex, Cock Rock Disco, Entity and Tigerbeat6...
.
The next year, PÜA moved to Detroit and began to play shows regularly in and around the area, including such events as the Alec Empire
Alec Empire
Alec Empire is a German musician who is best known as a founding member of the band Atari Teenage Riot. Also a prolific and distinguished solo artist, producer and DJ, he has released well over a hundred albums, EPs and singles and remixed over seventy tracks for various artists including Björk...
-endorsed Digital Hardcore Festival in Toronto and the Industrial Movement II festival at St. Andrews Hall
St. Andrews Hall
Saint Andrew's Hall is a Detroit music venue and concert hall. Formerly the meeting place for the Saint Andrew's Society of Detroit and never a church, the building is now a host of live bands and DJs .-History:...
in Detroit alongside such bands as DJ? Acucrack
DJ? Acucrack
DJ? Acucrack is an electronic music duo based in Chicago, Illinois. It is a side project of Acumen Nation and is also on the Crack Nation record label...
, The Final Cut
The Final Cut (band)
The Final Cut is an industrial music group, consisting mainly of Detroit's Tony Srock.-Bio:The Final Cut has been an international underground electronic music enigma since emerging from the late 80's Detroit underground. Final Cut began when Anthony "Asrock" Srock, then a radio and club DJ, began...
, and Meat Beat Manifesto
Meat Beat Manifesto
Meat Beat Manifesto, often shortened to Meat Beat or MBM, is an electronic music group originally consisting of Jack Dangers and Jonny Stephens formed in 1987 in Swindon, UK...
. They released a new EP, Les Femmes de la Guerre, on D-Trash Records
D-Trash Records
Formed in 1998, Canada's D-Trash Records started as an online collective by members of Cpuwar and DJ Rabies as the beginnings of an international network of electronic music artists....
in 2007.
As of 2009, the band is completing work on a five-piece series of EPs collectively titled "Five Fingers Make a Fist" and tracks for their seond album, which is tentatively titled Le Femme Terrible.
Discography
- Iron Woman - CD (Fatal, 2004)
- Les Femmes de la Guerre - EP and MP3 (D-Trash, 2007)
- Heatwave - EP and MP3 (D-Trash, 2009)
- Brawl at the Boys and Girls Club - EP and MP3 (D-Trash, 2009)
- Cockpit - EP and MP3 (D-Trash, 2009)
- Fuck the Radio - EP and MP3 (D-Trash, 2009)
- Nur Ein Bisschen - EP and MP3 (D-Trash, 2010)
Compilation appearances
- Slave Indvstries Label Sampler vol.1 - CD (2000)
- Electronic Revolutions - CD (2004)
- The Virus Has Been Spread - CD (2007)
- Pro-Tech Anti-Corp - CD and MP3 (2009)
External links
- Official Website
- Phallus Über Alles on DiscogsDiscogsDiscogs, short for discographies, is a website and database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. The Discogs servers, currently hosted under the domain name discogs.com, are owned by Zink Media, Inc., and are...
- Phallus Über Alles on Last.fmLast.fmLast.fm is a music website, founded in the United Kingdom in 2002. It has claimed 30 million active users in March 2009. On 30 May 2007, CBS Interactive acquired Last.fm for UK£140m ....