Die Warzau, (originally referred to as Die Warzau Synfony), is an industrial music band formed in 1987 by performance artists Jim Marcus and Van Christie.
Originally signed to Chris Parry's Fiction Records, the group 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, ...
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Die Warzau, (originally referred to as Die Warzau Synfony), is an industrial music band formed in 1987 by performance artists Jim Marcus and Van Christie.
Originally signed to Chris Parry's Fiction Records, the group 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 ("Funkopolis" and the live take of "Coming Down"). Contributors to the band at the time included, Chris Vrenna and James Woolley, both members of Nine Inch Nails during the mid-1990s and to round out the band, audio/video artist, Burle Avant, he went on to co-create MTV-Amp(tv series) the...
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