Sunday 24 September 2017

Deutsch-Amerikanische-Freundschaft ‎– "Kebabträume / Gewalt" & "Der Räuber Und Der Prinz / Tanz Mit Mir" (Mute MUTE 005/011) 1980/81



DAF mark 1 produced a couple of great singles too before Guitarist Spelmans left the band before they turned Disco.
"Kebabträume" is nothing short of a minimal synth classic, backed by electronic noise-fest "Gewalt".
As for "Der Räuber Und Der Prinz" & "Tanz Mit Mir", this represents the difference between Deutsch-Amerikanische-Freundschaft and what would become DAF. The A-side is missing the angular guitar attack of Wolfgang Spelmans, and "Tanz Mit Mir" is classic DAF mark 1,as heard on their first two albums....I remember buying this single from Revolver in Leicester,perfectly pronouncing the full band name to the deaf ears of the sales assistant until the penny dropped, and he said "Ahhhh....you mean DAF!?"......sometimes I don't know why I ever bother?

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3 comments:

Pisŧöff said...

you've been holding out on us Jonny

Henk Madrotter said...

THANKS A MILLION TIMES JONNY :)

So many acts that turned disco back then.....

I remember going to a Palais Schaumburg concert way back, must've been '83... I loved their albums and still do... What we got was a show with loads of practiced disco dance routines and brooms with contact microphones, it was.... weird.....

Einsturzende Neubauten with the great band Abwaerts a few months later, in the same place.... Now that was a concert.... I don't know how they did it but they ended the concert with the bomb alarm that you can hear every first Monday of the month in Rotterdam, IN THE CONCERT HALL (Hall 4 the place was called), the place was empty within 5 minutes, nobody shouting for an encore.....

Anyway, the D.A.F. posts are GREAT!!!!

jonder said...

Vielen dank fur alle DAF. Here's an interesting new interview with Gabi and Robert on the occasion of the DAF box set release:
thequietus.com/articles/23350-daf-interview-strange-world

"... the Neue Deutsche Welle - the new thing - was getting really big at this point. very stupid and very cheap and we were being integrated, associated, with this movement. So we had to stop, just like that. No more D.A.F. We didn’t want to be part of something we did seriously support. And I think that was one of the wisest decisions in our history. We gained immediate cult status. This was the D.A.F. philosophy. Macht was du wilt. Do what you like, don’t tell anyone else tell you what to do."