Die Kleinen und die Bösen
| Die Kleinen und die Bösen | ||||
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 Original 1980 LP sleeve | ||||
| Studio album by Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft | ||||
| Released | 1980 | |||
| Recorded |
March 1980 at Conny Plank's Studio, Neunkirchen, Germany; Electric Ballroom, London | |||
| Genre | Electropunk | |||
| Label |
Mute STUMM-1 | |||
| Producer | Conny Plank | |||
| Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft chronology | ||||
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| Professional ratings | |
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| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
Die Kleinen und die Bösen (The Small and the Bad) is the second album by Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft. It was the first album ever released on Mute Records.
Side A and the first track of side B are studio recordings produced by Conny Plank. The remainder of side B is a live recording from the Electric Ballroom, Camden Town, London.
Personnel
For this album, the band was Gabi Delgado-López, Robert Görl, Chrislo Haas, Michael Kemner and Wolfgang Spelmans. Haas, Kemner and Spelmans left before D.A.F.'s breakthrough follow-up album, Alles Ist Gut.[1]
Reception
Despite the album's low sales, 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."[2] 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."[3] Simon Reynolds, in Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978–1984, describes it as "brilliant and sinister".[4]
Track listing
Side A:
- Osten Währt Am Längsten 5:44
- Essen Dann Schlafen 1:05
- Co Co Pino 3:25
- Kinderfunk 3:02
- Nachtarbeit 1:53
- Ich Gebe Dir Ein Stück Von Mir 1:41
- De Panne 2:34
Side B:
- Gewalt 1:24
- Gib's Mir 1:01
- Auf Wiedersehen 1:59
- Das Ist Liebe 1:22
- Was Ist Eine Welle 1:15
- Anzufassen Und Anzufassen 1:44
- Volkstanz 0:47
- Die Lustigen Stiefel 1:50
- Die Kleinen Und Die Bösen 1:05
- Die Fesche Lola 1:41
- El Basilon 2:51
- Y La Gracia 2:05
References
- 1 2 Die Kleinen und die Bösen at AllMusic
- ↑ Ned Raggett. "DAF." AllMusic Guide to Electronica: the definitive guide to electronic music, p114. Vladimir Bogdanov, ed., 2001. Backbeat Books. ISBN 0-87930-628-9.
- ↑ Grant, Steven; Robbins, Ira. "DEUTSCHE AMERIKANISCHE FREUNDSCHAFT". Trouser Press. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
- ↑ Reynolds, Simon (February 2006). "18: Electric Dreams: Synthpop". Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978–1984 (paperback) (US ed.). Penguin Books. ISBN 1-4295-2667-X.