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D.A.F. - D.A.F
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 329 MB | Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Virgin # CDV 2533 | Country/Year: Germany 1988
Genre: Electronica, Pop | Style: EBM, Synth Pop, Neue Deutsche Welle

"…Though their impact on the emergent forms of house and techno was huge, D.A.F. has never achieved the recognition they so richly deserve. Nevertheless, for the longest time even Kraftwerk weren't recognized for their contribution to hip-hop, and perhaps ultimately D.A.F. will get their due: they represent one of a very few direct links between avant-garde punk and techno, and flung their lance into the future farther even than Throbbing Gristle."

In relation to my discovery of Rosenberg I owe a debt, deep and wide, to my favourite writer on Scandinavian music, Robert Layton. It was through Mr Layton's writings in 'Golden Age' Gramophone rather than its current thought-byte style Brummagem tin - no disrespect to my native Birmingham) that I sought out Rosenberg's music in the 1970s and 1980s. We can enjoy reading classic Layton (and I hope, both Martin Anderson and the much-missed Richard D.C. Noble - the latter once such a pillar of Records and Recordings) in the newly ……

Rob Barnett @ musicweb-international.com

D.A.F. - Produkt der Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 208 MB | Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Mute # DAF0CD | Country/Year: UK 1999, 1979
Genre: Rock, Electronica | Style: EBM, Synth Pop, Neue Deutsche Welle

"Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft ("German American Friendship"; most commonly abbreviated to D.A.F.) was founded as a five-piece industrial noise outfit in Düsseldorf in 1978, but ultimately winnowed down to a two-man group consisting of vocalist/lyricist Gabi Delgado and drummer/electronic musician Robert Görl. Their early development is linked to the Düsseldorf based group Der Plan, whose members all played in D.A.F. on its first album, Ein Produkt der DAF, minus Delgado, then a member but absent for these recording sessions. Released on the German AtaTak label in 1979 and later re-issued on Mute, Ein Produkt der D.A.F. heralded the beginning of the German branch of industrial music: the first recordings by Einstürzende Neubauten, made two years later, bear a striking resemblance to it…"

Following the success of Sundown, Gordon Lightfoot continued his success by releasing a greatest-hits compilation. A double album (now a single CD), it contained the most popular songs from his Warner Bros. years on disc two, and he re-recorded many of his early songs for side one of record one. Although not as good, perhaps, as the originals, this did bring them up to date with his current sound style. Just about all the favorites are here (except "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," which hadn't been recorded yet when this set was put together and appears on Lightfoot's second volume of Gord's Gold), making this a good general overview of a strong talent. When Warner transferred the double LP to CD, "Affair on 8th Avenue" was dropped from the program to make the set fit on a single disc. Randy Newman arranged the orchestration on "Minstrel of the Dawn," by the way.