Die Warzau
Formed in 1987 by performance artists Jim Marcus and Van Christie, Die Warz… Read Full Bio ↴Formed in 1987 by performance artists Jim Marcus and Van Christie, Die Warzau (originally referred to as Die Warzau Synfony) has operated on the fringes of industrial music, creating a unique sound. An everpresent and important part of Die Warzau's appeal is the sociopolitical lyricism and emotive vocals of Jim Marcus.
Originally signed to Chris Parry's Fiction Records, the band released Disco Rigido in the late 1980s (distributed in the United States by Atlantic Records), which featured "Welcome To America", "Land of the Free" and "I've Got To Make Sense". Though the album falls solidly into the EBM genre, it contains hints of the experimentation and genre-bending that later recordings would feature (e.g. "Y Tagata en Situ").
A second album, Big Electric Metal Bass Face, built on the foundation laid with Disco Rigido and upped the ante with excursions into funk (listen to "Funkopolis" as well as the live take of "Coming Down"). Contributors to the band at the time included Chris Vrenna and James Woolley, who both served time in Nine Inch Nails during the mid-Nineties.
Marcus and Christie then teamed up with Jane Jensen to form Oxygiene 23, and released an album ("Blue") on Fifth Column Records.
Engine, a 1995 release on WaxTrax!, was a huge jump forward and found critical acclaim for its decimation of genre boundaries. Die Warzau could no longer be simply pigeonholed into the "industrial" category, as their music became more organic, rounder on the edges yet still retaining their trademark knack for insistent rhythm and pure, unrefined electronic noise. "Liberated" and "All Good Girls" became trademark songs for the group. Fellow WaxTrax! act Sister Machine Gun "inherited" an unused song from this period ("Hole In the Ground"), which they included on their Burn album.
Die Warzau as a group then went on hiatus for a number of years, with Marcus and Christie working on other projects--Jim Marcus founded the pure funk group Everplastic while Van Christie worked on Eco-Hed.
By 2005, though, the duo had reconvened and released Convenience (on their Chicago-based Pulseblack Records). A continuation of the path they started on with Engine, songs like "Radiation Babies", "Kleen" and "Linoleum" further blur any genre lines and leave something truly original. More output is expected from the group in 2006, including a collaboration with funk pioneer George Clinton.
Originally signed to Chris Parry's Fiction Records, the band released Disco Rigido in the late 1980s (distributed in the United States by Atlantic Records), which featured "Welcome To America", "Land of the Free" and "I've Got To Make Sense". Though the album falls solidly into the EBM genre, it contains hints of the experimentation and genre-bending that later recordings would feature (e.g. "Y Tagata en Situ").
A second album, Big Electric Metal Bass Face, built on the foundation laid with Disco Rigido and upped the ante with excursions into funk (listen to "Funkopolis" as well as the live take of "Coming Down"). Contributors to the band at the time included Chris Vrenna and James Woolley, who both served time in Nine Inch Nails during the mid-Nineties.
Marcus and Christie then teamed up with Jane Jensen to form Oxygiene 23, and released an album ("Blue") on Fifth Column Records.
Engine, a 1995 release on WaxTrax!, was a huge jump forward and found critical acclaim for its decimation of genre boundaries. Die Warzau could no longer be simply pigeonholed into the "industrial" category, as their music became more organic, rounder on the edges yet still retaining their trademark knack for insistent rhythm and pure, unrefined electronic noise. "Liberated" and "All Good Girls" became trademark songs for the group. Fellow WaxTrax! act Sister Machine Gun "inherited" an unused song from this period ("Hole In the Ground"), which they included on their Burn album.
Die Warzau as a group then went on hiatus for a number of years, with Marcus and Christie working on other projects--Jim Marcus founded the pure funk group Everplastic while Van Christie worked on Eco-Hed.
By 2005, though, the duo had reconvened and released Convenience (on their Chicago-based Pulseblack Records). A continuation of the path they started on with Engine, songs like "Radiation Babies", "Kleen" and "Linoleum" further blur any genre lines and leave something truly original. More output is expected from the group in 2006, including a collaboration with funk pioneer George Clinton.
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Die Warzau Lyrics
All Cut Up Walking is a strain in the pouring rain, but you…
All Good Girls Daddy's little girl, she had bright blue eyes She was just…
Allgoodgirls Daddy′s little girl, she had bright blue eyes She was just…
As We Are So We Are As we are so we are lost in our minds Complete…
Big Hit Radio Save yourself Slave yourself You know you got a big hard dis…
Big Hit Radio (Desktop Porn Mi Save yourself Slave yourself You know you got a big hard …
Bliss Moving bloody water Washing my own life I gave you everyth…
Bodybag It's in your body Oh, it's in your Pay the country, ? al…
Brand New Convertible Car Money walks, money talks, money breathes Money breeds imagi…
Burning You might think it's a malady But the fires don't go…
Coming Down Buy-out city got a right to run Deep into the night…
Crack Radio On the radio, listen to me Subliminal on TV Release your m…
Crusaders You can't believe Anything you say Bodies revealed Broken…
Curious Maybe I'm inside To cut the strings that bind us Take the…
Dying in Paradise One more word in the wrong place Let your body go Let…
Funkopolis Lost my hope, I see a sign Everyone can see I'm…
Glare Outside my bedroom window No, don't stop me Let me continu…
Go Going Gone Go, going, gone Someone like me right next to me Black i…
Gone Chemical Maybe I'm falling Maybe I'm not Surrounded by people Unin…
Grounded Too much too free Don't let it go Ejaculation Mutilatio…
Heroin A.D. Needles in my skin, curiously I'm invulnerable I'm livin' so…
I've Got to Make Sense We have neither jobs nor houses!…
Insect We terrorizing? Want to touch? Turn away While awaiting …
Jack Hammer Jackhammer Jackhammer This time around we're in the huma…
King of Rock and Roll There is nothing you wanted You could do nothing We still …
Kleen There's a world outside your heart Never used to be the…
Land of the Free Free in the land of the free Free in the land…
Last Generation Though I can't see I'm a shepherd now Take off to…
Liberated TAKE ME TO THE HIGHER SPACES WHITE HORSES AND BLUE GODS LET…
Linoleum Wake up wanting Why should I? Watch the face identify The…
Man Is Meat We all know that you can read and write A lesson…
Material I cannot talk to you, you so material…
Missing It I'M SCREAMING FOR WORDS AGAIN AND I'M CURIOUSLY ALIVE SOMETH…
Mona Lisa Communista I'm gonna help you up when you are down I know…
Money After All No more Money It's only money after all No So, h…
Muck Come on... take me higher Goin' down... Not afraid of …
My Pretty Little Girlfriend Can it really be too bad - is it terror…
Never Again See the man - see the man in the uniform Set…
Permission I will not hide from you I will not ask for…
Pig City Everyone on the street is a monkeyman Try to imagine how…
Radiation Babies You know you realize that you’re ugly You rise above in…
Red All Over 25 to life - some kind of life Sitting on the…
Shake Down Shake Take it off till you like what you see I've got…
Shakespeare I'm never never I'm never never I'm never never I'm never…
Shine Here you are inside a space Look into the world Look into…
Shock Box Our father who art in hell, ten thousand years of…
Strike to the Body A chance of curiosity No frying pan no fire This is smooth…
Strike to the Body (Ampalang m Strike, strike! A chance of curiosity No frying pan, no …
Suck It Up Little itty bitty Girlie in the city Why, you don't look s…
Superbuick Human filth in the gasoline spill Riding hard to perdition …
Tear It Down I can't remember I can't recall the indecision The shame of…
Terrorform Round round medicine mind Change your world wanna change yo…
Welcome to America This is a racist nation Big hands of provocation If this d…