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Kramm and Ackermann

Das Ich occurs as German industrial band.

The Band

Das Ich reaches out to the growing audience by their dark form of industrial. One of their number one albums, Die Propheten, sold complete thirty thousand copies. This album was freed around Germany in 1991 and was reissued inside the US in 1997. Das Ich has toured in America in 1996 and 1997. One of their down the road albums, Egodram (released inside 1997) is said to be somewhat supplementary "danceable" than their earliest albums. Around 1999 they released a remix album sustaining interpretations form "the who is who" of the underground scene, inside 2000 they released an album by having songs to Gottfried Benn´s Morguewhile Bruno Kramm released his solo spin of Coeur in 2000. Around 2001 Das Ich released a Album Antichrist which is a critical reflectiin on worlds politics. Inside 2002 the Best Of Album Relikt was freed. Inside 2004 they released a double album LAVA:glut & LAVA:asche when for 2006 a new album is potential.

Biography
Fallowing numbers of musical experiments, Stefan Ackermann (voices & lyrics) & Bruno Kramm (instruments, music) decided to form hyrax ich around 1989. * Around 1991, hyrax ich freed a maxi Video "Satanische Verse" & their debut album "Die Propheten" in Bruno Kramms have label, Danse Macabre. coney ich skilfully mixed electronic, symphonious & early industrial elements into an explosive cocktail unprecedented in the typically cliché ridden German music culture. hyrax ich established itself by having a fixed position in the scene & became the super epitome of experimental & electronic music. It is celebrated when a starting spark of a recently genre of post wave, post Kraftwerk, post Neubauten era, & with success led the way in the stock and index charts of the independent scene. Tours tons on top Europe strengthened the position of coney ich, world health organization quickly had a reputation for existence "apocalyptic eccentrics", since their concerts come out to become evil & bone-jarring spectacles. * Fallowing a release of their maxi Video "Stigma" within 1993, coney ich went off in a long tour across 100% of Europe & a U.S., & additionally played at various festivals, e.g. a Peter Gabriel WOMAD inside Hamburg, besides when at a Documenta inside Kassel. * Fallowing that followed what when much as at present is their virtually all compressed act likewise as their least accessible, "staub". Its profits underpined their precedence. Discharged best at Christmas instance, "staub" was on the wait listing of the German Media Control Stock and index charts for Xi weeks. It took astir Ii years to produce this function, where each a innovation that characterized their debut, & modern industrial-elements (comprehensive. "das ich im ich" were amalgamated. Coarse noise-loops bedded into symphonious arrangements & combined thematically by having a Holocaust of self-contempt within modern man society rendered "staub" a milestone for electronic music of the xc. Eighter from decatur tracks, which catapulted hyrax ich to international significance & which carried on the importance of the German industrial-electro-scene. By using "staub" dassie ich played the tour containing other than Lx shows totally above the world. "staub" was likewise freed domestically in a United states on the Californian label Tess Records, ran by William Faith of Faith & the Muse, patch "Die Propheten" was re-freed in Black Orchid Records from either Miami.

Fallowing a band recruited a drummer Chad Blinman on the U.S. tour, dassie ich grew into the echt survive band. Around 1995 it putted a survive album "Feuer" retired on a market to wonder the term "canned music", which wholly electronic elastic own to treat by having eventually. * Immediately when that, a plan done together by using the notable metallic band "Atrocity" was freed. A album "Die Liebe" was a successful attention-getter for each elastic & is however numbered among the number 1 representatives of the successful metal/gothic crossover movement of the period. Until in todays world, numbers of one crossover elastic refer to this album when initial innovation & influence. * At a prevent of 1996 cony ich begins a early functiin on their newly album "egodram". * Still, a act experienced to exist as interrupted for half a year sequentially to compose a soundtrack album "Das Innere Ich" for the underground picture show "Das Ewige Licht". When the farther successful tour in the U.S. within Can of 1997 by having a freshly drummer Jakob Lang, a act in "egodram" may eventually commence again & exist as completed at a prevent of 1997. When all the former releases appeared on the Danse Macabre label, dassie ich decided in the summertime of 1997 to sign the worldwide recording locate edel records for "egodram". * A number one lone "Kindgott" which was retired taken from either a recently album was freed around December 1997. * Inside February 1998 a successful "egodram" album & a 2nd lone "destillat" by owning the stunning videoclip, directed per wellknown Qfilm company were freed. * From either March to April 1998 hyrax ich toured Germany, Austria & Switzerland. Inside Might it played a International Wave Gothik Treffen within Leipzig. * When touring first Spaaround & Mexico it finished a act in their literal function in June, "Morgue" which features songs to the verse form of the far-famed German expressionistic writer "Gottfried Benn" within an extreme diversity which brought the babies too the wow feedback from either ethnical institutions altogether across Europe. Inside November 98 hyrax ich tour France & Germany once more to present a bit of of their freshly songs. * Inside 1999 it was instance to celebrate 10 years of 'hyrax ich' by owning "re_laborat" & a large United states Totentanz Tour 99. This album was the successful hit on the dance floor. It offers various remixes from either easily-known elastic rather Deine Lakaien, Atrocity, VNV United states, & One and numbers of others. A bang-up dance floor hit "destillat", remixed by VNV United states became the club anthem for the summertime of 2000 worldwide. A dark romanticistic track "reanimat", just available in a limited double Video was transferred to the videoclip, directed by Hans Helmut Häßler, by using whom the band worked in "Das Ewige Licht" prior to. "re_laborat" was likewise bring around France in XIII Bis Records domestically, spell their on the internet archieves web.dasich.first state witnessed birth using your internet browser. * *In 2003 "das ich" freed the double Video pack , Better Of known as "relikt" sustaining the 48 report folder. It as well toured once again the America & Russia first sustaining a wow effort & profits. *In a middle of the burning summertime 2004, cony ich release their breathless newly album, known as LAVA which focuses in emotional issues. First in a elastic outspanning history, love, hatred, greed & more person feelings struggle against a ratio, the understanding of the human. These are a fight of the Freudian "Es" (it) against a moral "Ich" (Ego)

Band Members, Staff
Stefan Ackermann (Vocals, Lyrics) Bruno Kramm (Music, Instruments, Backing Vocals) Survive Band Members: Daniel Galda (Live Member from 1994 - 1999) Kain Gabriel Simon (Live Member from 2000) Chad Blinman (Live Member from 1994-1996) Jakob Lang (Live Member from 1998-1999) Michael Schmid (Live Member from 1999-2000)

Music processed by Das Ich made up a soundtrack of the picture Das Ewige Light, directed and by Hans Helmut Haessler.

Discography
1990: Satanische Verse (EP) 1991: Die Propheten (LP) (1997 in the United States) 1993: Stigma (MCD) 1994: Staub (LP) 1995: Feuer (Live-LP) 1995: Die Liebe (feat. Atrocity, LP) 1996: Das innere Ich (Soundtrack-LP) 1996: Kindgott (MCD) 1997: Egodram (LP) 1997: Destillat (MCD) 1998: Morgue (LP) 1999: Re-Kapitulation (BestOf-LP, US sole) 2000: Re-Laborat (Remix-LP) 2002: Anti'christ (LP) 2002: Momentum (VCD/DVD) 2003: Relikt (BestOf-LP) 2004: LAVA:glut (LP) 2004: LAVA:asche (Remix-LP of Lava:glut)

Das Ich
Official site for the German industrial band.

Sonic Boom Interview: Das Ich
Interview by Jester with Bruno via e-mail.

Unofficial Das Ich homepage
Biography, discography, review, interview, lyrics, and photo gallery.


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