• Vince Clarke

    Vince Clarke

  • Goldfrapp

    Goldfrapp

  • The Acid

  • Plastikman

  • New Order

    New Order

  • A Certain Ratio

    A Certain Ratio

  • Lee Ranaldo

    Lee Ranaldo

  • Nicolas Bougaïeff

  • Daniel Avery

  • nonpareils

    Nonpareils

  • Daniel Blumberg

  • Chris Liebing

    Chris Liebing

  • K Á R Y Y N

    K Á R Y Y N

  • The Pop Group

  • HAAi

  • Sylph

  • Jake Shears

  • JakoJako

  • Sunroof

  • Miss Grit

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    I Predict a Graceful Expulsion

  • Silicon Teens —
    Music for Parties

  • Carter Tutti Void —
    Transverse

  • Cabaret Voltaire —
    Three Mantras

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    Red Mecca

  • Cabaret Voltaire —
    Voice Of America

  • Cabaret Voltaire —
    The Living Legends

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    Live At The Lyceum

  • Cabaret Voltaire —
    Cabaret Voltaire 1974-76

  • 2×45 —
    2x45

  • Cabaret Voltaire —
    The Original Sound Of Sheffield '78 / '82 Best Of

  • Cabaret Voltaire —
    Live At The YMCA 27.10.79.

  • Cabaret Voltaire —
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  • Cabaret Voltaire —
    Mix-Up

  • Cabaret Voltaire —
    Listen Up With Cabaret Voltaire

  • Cabaret Voltaire —
    Hai!

  • Cabaret Voltaire —
    Yashar

  • Beth Jeans Houghton —
    Sweet Tooth Bird

  • Beth Jeans Houghton —
    Yours Truly Cellophane Nose

  • Moby —
    This Wild Darkness

  • Fever Ray —
    IDK About You

  • Daniel Avery —
    Slow Fade

  • Fever Ray —
    Wanna Sip

  • Moby —
    Like A Motherless Child

  • Fever Ray —
    To The Moon And Back

  • Liars —
    Staring At Zero

  • Lee Ranaldo —
    Moroccan Mountains

  • Lee Ranaldo —
    Thrown Over The Wall

  • Liars —
    Cred Woes

  • Ben Frost —
    Threshold Of Faith

  • ADULT. —
    Uncomfortable Positions (feat. Lun*na Menoh)

  • Lee Ranaldo —
    New Thing

  • Erasure —
    World Be Gone

  • Erasure —
    Love You To The Sky

  • Can —
    Dizzy Dizzy (The Singles Pt. 2)

  • Can —
    She Brings The Rain (The Singles Pt. 1)

  • Lee Ranaldo —
    Circular (Right As Rain)

  • ADULT. —
    We Are A Mirror (feat. Douglas J McCarthy)

  • Lift To Experience —
    Falling From Cloud 9

Laibach

Announce 2016 Sound of Music Tour

THE SOUND OF MUSIC TOUR

JANUARY – APRIL 2016

 35 years on from their genesis in Yugoslavia, Laibach are the most internationally acclaimed band to have come out of the former Communist countries of Eastern and Central Europe, and one of the most enigmatic, prophetic and authentic music (and art) groups in the world. Founded in the industrial city of Trbovlje, in the so-called revolutionary Red District area of Slovenia in the year of the then-Yugoslavia’s leader Tito’s death, and rising to fame as Yugoslavia steered towards self-destruction, Laibach have consistently opposed labels of any kind, be they “rock”, “pop”, “techno” or “industrial”. Self-styled engineers of human souls, Laibach can make you think, dance and march to the same music.

With their latest album SPECTRE (released on Mute in 2014, almost two years before the newest James Bond film with the same title!) Laibach created an important step forward in their career. The group – which has never defined itself politically, but has constantly analysed politics through its work – comes across as politically engaged as never before. SPECTRE sounds like a political manifesto in poetic form. Laibach, who have always given the impression of controversy – particularly in terms of political orientation, now very clearly takes a position on the political spectrum, probably irreversibly abolishing its own political ‘freedom’ and neutrality.

This position adds a new dimension to the recent concert in Pyongyang. In August 2015 Laibach became the first ever band of its kind to perform in the secretive country of North Korea, a reclusive garrison state as well-known for its military marches, mass gymnastics and hymns to the Great Leader, as for its defiant resistance to Western popular culture.

Laibach’s Liberation Day’s concert coincided with the 70th anniversary of the Korean peninsula’s liberation from Japanese colonization and its subsequent division into two enemy states, which confront each other in an uneasy truce to this day. The concert was a great success and provoked a massive media debate around the world. The event and the whole of Laibach’s visit to North Korea was been filmed and will be the subject of the full-length documentary scheduled for premiere in spring 2016. The film trailer and an exclusive sneak preview of footage will be presented at Laibach’s Sound of Music Tour.

Last year Laibach returned from a successful tour across North America, and celebrated their 35th Anniversary with a special 4th of July concert at their home town of Trbovlje, followed by a traditional party gathering at nearby Mt. Kum and a rooftop concert at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb few days later.

The Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana recently presented a historic exhibition on Laibach within their NSK retrospective.

At the 2016 Sound of Music Tour Laibach will present part of the programme that made up the Pyongyang performance including some extraordinary interpretations of the songs from the world’s renowned ‘Sound of Music’ musical during the 2016 tour. In addition, the band will also perform some of their older songs, among them ‘Now You Will Pay’ and ‘The Great Divide’ from the 2003 album WAT – both dealing with the emigrant crisis and refugee problematic in Europe and Middle East.

On this tour the band will also perform a concert in Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt, as a part of events, dedicated to commemoration of the 100 Years of the Big War, and on February 9th Laibach will present a very special show with RTV Symphonic orchestra and mixed choir in Henry Le Boeuf Hall in Palaise des Beaux-Arts in Bruxelles.

THE SOUND OF MUSIC – ANNOUNCED TOUR DATES

13.01. 2016 DE Nuremberg – Hirsch
14.01. 2016 DE Berlin- Haus der Kulturen Der Welt
16.01. 2016 DK Copehagen- Concert Huset
17.01. 2016 SE Stockholm- Debaster Medis
18.01. 2016 NO Oslo- Parkteatret
19.01. 2016 DE Hamburg- Knust
20.01. 2016 DE Cologne- Live Music Hall
21.01. 2016 IT Milano – Circolo Magnolia
09.02. 2016 BE Brussels- The Henry Le Boeuf Hall, BOZAR (with RTV Symphonic Orchestra)
07.04. 2016 DE Frankfurt – Batschkapp
09.04. 2016 FR Audincourt – Le Moloco http://impetusfestival.com/
10.04. 2016 NL Tilburg- Theater Tilburg Concertzaal
12.04. 2016 UK London -The Forum
14.04. 2016 DK Aalborg – Studenterhuset
15.04. 2016 DE Leipzig- Haus Auensee
16.04. 2016 DE Dresden- Alter Schlachthof
17.04. 2016 DE Munich- Muffathalle

For full tour dates and the latest information, please go to: http://spectre.laibach.org/tour-dates/

 

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