DAF - Die Kleinen und die Bösen

DAF - Die Kleinen und die Bösen

Label: Grönland 

Formato: LP 

Re-release of DAF’s 2nd  album, originally released in 1980 on MUTE RECORDS - It was actually the first album EVER released on Mute Records, a label that was climbing to world success later with bands such as Fad Gadget, Depeche Mode, Yazoo, Nick Cave…

At that time, Chrislo Haas (of Liaisons Dangereuses fame!) was still a member of D.A.F….

Side A and the first track of side B are studio recordings produced by legendary Conny Plank. The remainder of side B is a live recording from the Electric Ballroom, Camden Town, London.

The Allmusic Guide to Electronica notes its influence: "it helped not merely in establishing the group's cachet, but the label's and, in turn, the whole genre of experimental electronic music in the '80s and beyond."

Trouser Press notes the band's movement from industrial noise toward modern dance: "Material is more polished, with anarchic synthesizer work slowly integrating a solid, defined beat."

Simon Reynolds, in ‘Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978–1984’, describes it as "brilliant and sinister".

Tracks:

A1 Osten währt am Längsten

A2 Essen dann schlafen

A3 Co Co Pino

A4 Kinderfunk

A5 Nacht Arbeit

A6 Ich gebe Dir ein Stück von mir

A7 De Panne

B1 Gewalt

B2 Gib's mir

B3 Auf Wiedersehen

B4 Das ist Liebe

B5 Was ist eine Welle

B6 Anzufassen und Anzufassen

B7 Volkstanz

B8 Die lustigen Stiefel

B9 Die Kleinen und die Bösen

B10 Die fesche Lola 

B11 El Basilon 

B12 Y la Gracia