Die Warzau

Die Warzau
Origin	Chicago, Illinois
Genres	New Wave, Synthpop, Industrial, EBM
Years active	1987–2011
Labels	Fiction, Atlantic, Mercury, Polygram, WaxTrax!, Pulseblack
Associated acts	Apartment 26 Dead On TV The Dreaming Eco-Hed Everplastic Go Fight KMFDM Pigface Sister Machine Gun Stabbing Westward
Website	http://diewarzau.com
Past members
Van Christie Dan Evans Abel Garibaldi Christopher Hall Jim Marcus Chris Vrenna Xmas Smits Kevin Temple Mars Williams

Die Warzau (originally Die Warzau Synfony) was an industrial music band formed in 1987 by performance artists Jim Marcus and Van Christie.

History

Originally signed to Chris Parry's Fiction Records, the group released Disco Rigido in the late 1980s.

A second album, Big Electric Metal Bass Face, was released in the early 1990s. Contributors to the band at the time included Chris Vrenna and James Woolley (both members of Nine Inch Nails during the mid-1990s), and audio visual artist Burle Avant, who went on to co-create the MTV television series Amp.

Engine, a 1995 release on Wax Trax/TVT, was the last album the group released before going on hiatus for almost a decade, and included contributions from Chris Randall of the band Sister Machine Gun (SMG). One of the songs written by Die Warzau during this time, "Hole In the Ground," ended up on the SMG album Burn.

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 another project called Eco-Hed.

In 2004, the duo re-united, together with new members Abel Garibaldi and Dan Evans, releasing Convenience on their Chicago-based label Pulseblack Records.

2008 saw the release of Vinyl 88, a collection of remixes and previously unreleased tracks including "Born Again" (for which a controversial video^{[according to whom?]} was released) and "Hitler's Brain", a collaboration with funk pioneer George Clinton. While some of the tracks had seen prior release, many of the remixes featured re-recorded elements.

In 2009, Die Warzau made several songs – many from the recent Convenience and Vinyl 88 releases – available for remixing at RemixGalaxy.com The different musical elements (vocals, drums, bass, etc.) of each song are available as separate tracks, which allows fans (and/or budding remixers) the opportunity to create their own versions of the songs or incorporate the parts into their own original tracks under personal, non-commercial license.

In 2011, Die Warzau announced on their Facebook page that their performance at the WTII Minifest 2 on June 12 would be the band's last performance before breaking up. The live personnel included Jim Marcus, Dan Evans, Vince McAley, and Jay Ramirez.

Discography

Disco Rigido (1989)

1. Welcome to America
2. Man Is Meat
3. Jack Hammer
4. Bodybag
5. Sexus
6. Money After All
7. Strike to the Body
8. I've Got to Make Sense
9. National Security
10. Shake Down
11. Tear It Down
12. Bodybag [Edit][Dub]
13. Free Radio Africa
14. Tagata en Situ
15. Cross Burning, Pt. 2
16. Land of the Free

Big Electric Metal Bass Face (1991)

1. Crack Radio
2. Funkopolis
3. Never Again
4. Shock Box
5. Brand New Convertible Car
6. Burning
7. All Cut Up
8. Coming Down [Live]
9. My Pretty Little Girlfriend
10. Red All Over
11. Pig City
12. Dying in Paradise
13. Suck It Up
14. Head

Engine (1995)

1. Missing It
2. Liberated
3. Lizardoplacentis
4. Muck
5. Cyberdelia Non Corborundum
6. Grounded
7. Heroina.d.
8. Belly
9. Ultraplanet
10. Pughead (Badacidanimals)
11. Allgoodgirls
12. Material
13. Shakespeare
14. Amphibious
15. America

Convenience (2004)

1. Crusaders
2. Go Going Gone
3. Permission
4. Radiation Babies
5. Glare
6. Bliss
7. Linoleum
8. Superbuick
9. Terrorform
10. Curious
11. Gone Chemical
12. Kleen
13. King of Rock and Roll
14. Come as You Are
15. As We Are so We Are
16. Shine

Vinyl88 – Not the Best of Die Warzau (2008)

1. Insect (Butterfly Re Edit)
2. Land of the Free (Red Metal Mix)
3. Born Again (Reborn Edit)
4. All Good Girls (Girls Redrawn KMFDM Remix)
5. Glare (Album Edit)
6. Funkopolis (To Le Funk Mix)
7. Crusaders (Mission to Mars Mix)
8. Welcome to America (Single Cell Remix)
9. Coming Down (Black Ops Mix)
10. Kleen (Cleaner Mix)
11. Last Generation (Rapture Re Edit)
12. All Cut Up (Twist and Scar Remix)
13. Nitelight (Medicated Mix)
14. Smacktime
15. Permission (Album Edit)
16. Hitler's Brain

Borghild (2009)

1. Big Hit Radio (Desktop Porn Mix)
2. We Are Electric (Tens Rod Re-Edit)
3. Insect (Waspkiller Fetish Mix)
4. Mona Lisa Communista (Chastity Mix)
5. The Gun Song (Penile Extension Mix)
6. UNS (Unnatural Selection) (Unnatural Sex Mix)

Trivia

• Both Christopher Hall (Stabbing Westward / The Dreaming) and Chris Vrenna were members at one point.
• Kevin Temple (Sister Machine Gun, Apartment 26) was a member during the Engine era.
• Warzone Recorders was started by Van Christie and Jim Marcus in part of Cabrini Green Housing Projects Sonic Boom Interview
• PULSEBLACK Records, a Chicago Indie Label is now home to Die Warzau Pulseblack Records
• In 1991 Die Warzau supported Nine Inch Nails on tour. NIN Hotline
• Van Christie worked at Traxx Records (from 1994–2004) and worked with Lil Louis on the hit "French Kiss"
• Abel Garibaldi who is credited on "Convenience" is head recording engineer for R. Kelly
• Jim Marcus is a well-respected typeface designer for T26 Font Foundry.
• Album "Convenience" wins Industrial Album of the Year, 2006 Just Plain Folks Music Awards

External links

• Myspace Page
• Facebook Page
• Announcement
• Concert Review: WTII Minifest 2