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SIEGELHEAD COMMUNIQUE #1
Leon Trotsky* once said: 'before things get better, they get worse - and our job is to make it worse faster'. Siegelhead have decided to take this mission in the context of Berlin's music and clubbing scene.
As legend goes, it was Atari Teenage Riot who welded punk with rave to put Berlin on the map again in the 90's. One of the bands to come out of the DHR movement was Cobra Killer, who, with their emphasis on dirty garage beats and dirty live shows, inspired a Canadian schoolteacher called Merrill Nisker to rename herself Peaches and throw Berlin into the next level - electroclash.
Another 5 years have passed and all the young (and old) soul rebels are scratching their heads and asking themselves, where next? From politics and noise to sex and grooves, from The Destroyer to the Fatherfucker, what is Siegelhead's statement? As usual in every military organisation, the answer is divided to a 3-point strategy:
TO TAKE ELECTROCLASH TO ITS EXTREME LOGICAL CONCLUSION AND BY THAT NEGATING IT AND CREATING THE OPENING FOR A NEW MOVEMENT
TO MAKE RETRO REGRET AND REPENT
TO TRANSGRESS TRANSGRESSION BY INSULTING PERVERSION
One of Siegelhead's proposed earlier monikers was Cheaper Trick. Not only an initial hint of Siegelhead's deep respect to the 70's which goes beyond retro and reaches religion (more on that in future communiqués), but a statement of intent and a threat to be cheap and stupid enough to create a cultural explosion akin to the meeting of matter and anti-matter, or more precisely, matter and something else which doesn't matter. Hmm.
By that we do not mean silly as in slapstick but a conceptual approach to music making based on professionally re-building lo-fi versions of ultra-produced hits in order to demonstrate the underlying dramatic power even when stripped bare, and by that bring electroclash to a dead end.
The choice of the name Siegelhead is based on a desire to focus our propaganda on the Berlin scene, and Germany at large. The tribute to legendary disco producer Ralph Siegel is clear and it is not cynical in any way. The further tribute to Siegel's biggest concurrent, Frank Farian, is brought to a massive conceptual head in the song 'Ralph Farian' which mixes Farian's and Siegel's takes on the primitivist, wild and occult allures of Russia into a pop-cultural popping fuse which nullifies history. Retro loses its meaning when it refers to Mongolians. More on this song and the song 'Quantum Jump' in Communiqué #2
Lastly, Siegelhead will be the last people to complain against the feminine dominance apparent in electroclash. However, in order to pre-empt a reactionary wave of low-IQ clubbers who forgot that dressing up as Texan truck drivers is in fact a tribute to Thelma and Louise, Siegelhead feel a duty to further confuse the scene's sexuality with BEARDED MEN IN DENIM JACKETS AND DRESSES. Peaches' multi-genderism is only the first step. Siegelhead exchange Love In A Void to sex in a void, stating that beards are meant to attract lesbians, dresses to attract heteros, and guns, big bucks and fast cars to attract gays. CHAOS IS FEMININE.
Siegelhead are no trendy provocateurs. Siegelhead operate by the book - and that book is the TORCH HERESY ALMANAC. The Almanac outlines the meanings of all musical modes and portrays each mode's cosmic archetypal role and concrete material resonance. More about the Almanac will only be revealed in Communiqué #4
*That is not to hint that Siegelhead are communist. In fact, Siegelhead are 20% capitalist, 20% anarchist, 25% nihilist and 35% occult.
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siegelhead - pop's not dead siegelhead - Berlin's music clubbing scene Atari Teenage Riot Berlin 90's DHR movement Cobra Killer dirty garage beats live shows Canadian Canada Merrill Nisker Peaches electroclash noise grooves RETRO 70's lo-fi version ultra-produced produce hits hit propaganda Berlin Germany Ralph Siegel Frank Farian Farian's Siegel's Russia feminine dominance MEN IN DENIM JACKETS Peaches capitalist anarchistnihilist occult Berlin's music clubbing scene Atari Teenage Riot Berlin 90's DHR movement Cobra Killer dirty garage beats live shows Canadian Canada Merrill Nisker Peaches electroclash noise grooves RETRO 70's lo-fi version ultra-produced produce hits hit propaganda Berlin Germany Ralph Siegel Frank Farian Farian's Siegel's Russia feminine dominance MEN IN DENIM JACKETS Peaches capitalist anarchistnihilist occult Berlin's music clubbing scene Atari Teenage Riot Berlin 90's DHR movement Cobra Killer dirty garage beats live shows Canadian Canada Merrill Nisker Peaches electroclash noise grooves RETRO 70's lo-fi version ultra-produced produce hits hit propaganda Berlin Germany Ralph Siegel Frank Farian Farian's Siegel's Russia feminine dominance MEN IN DENIM JACKETS Peaches capitalist anarchistnihilist occult electro trash berlin electro pop trash electro trash berlin electro pop trash poptrash berlin electropop berlin electrotrash electroclash berlin bastard bastardpop berlin electro trash berlin electro pop trash electro trash deep berlin berlin electro pop trash electro trash berlin electro pop trash german germany israeli israel electro trash berlin electro pop trash electro trash berlin electro pop trash electro trash berlin electro pop trash electro trash berlin electro pop trash electro trash berlin electro pop trash music sound deep berlin
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Jet October 21st - Berlin, West Germany, Berlin-Kreuzberg September 17th -
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July 30th Tierpark Berlin July 18th - Bastard Club Kastanienallee 7-9 July 9th - nbi with ASSID (phaser.se gothenburg) MUJIK (delta-b buenos aires) TETSUO (beturecords) TONY TELEX, Assid July 8th - Festsaal Kreuzberg, July 8th Festsaal Kreuzberg with miss kittin (nobody's bizzness),the hacker(goodlife LIVE), hwa young (freizeitglauben), henrik deroux (catch22), intergalactic hufdisco (ponylounge) June 23rd compact Space DJ MissFitz Kathedrale (Schliemannstr. 40) Spinster Sister Deep (Prenzlauer Allee 246) Hufdisko (Ponylounge) Woody + Lars Sommerfeld (Fumakilla) Silversurfer (bpitch control) Eddie da Silva (gmf) Nicole (roots2fruits) J-Star (London) schnappi darkwave berlin schnappi
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siegelhead - pop's not dead siegelhead - Berlin's music clubbing scene Atari Teenage Riot Berlin 90's DHR movement Cobra Killer dirty garage beats live shows Canadian Canada Merrill Nisker Peaches electroclash noise grooves RETRO 70's lo-fi version ultra-produced produce hits hit propaganda Berlin Germany Ralph Siegel Frank Farian Farian's Siegel's Russia feminine dominance MEN IN DENIM JACKETS Peaches capitalist anarchistnihilist occult Berlin's music clubbing scene Atari Teenage Riot Berlin 90's DHR movement Cobra Killer dirty garage beats live shows Canadian Canada Merrill Nisker Peaches electroclash noise grooves RETRO 70's lo-fi version ultra-produced produce hits hit propaganda Berlin Germany Ralph Siegel Frank Farian Farian's Siegel's Russia feminine dominance MEN IN DENIM JACKETS Peaches capitalist anarchistnihilist occult Berlin's music clubbing scene Atari Teenage Riot Berlin 90's DHR movement Cobra Killer dirty garage beats live shows Canadian Canada Merrill Nisker Peaches electroclash noise grooves RETRO 70's lo-fi version ultra-produced produce hits hit propaganda Berlin Germany Ralph Siegel Frank Farian Farian's Siegel's Russia feminine dominance MEN IN DENIM JACKETS Peaches capitalist anarchistnihilist occult electro trash berlin electro pop trash electro trash berlin electro pop trash poptrash berlin electropop berlin electrotrash electroclash berlin bastard bastardpop berlin electro trash berlin electro pop trash electro trash deep berlin berlin electro pop trash electro trash berlin electro pop trash german germany israeli israel electro trash berlin electro pop trash electro trash berlin electro pop trash electro trash berlin electro pop trash electro trash berlin electro pop trash electro trash berlin electro pop trash music sound deep berlin
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Jet October 21st - Berlin, West Germany, Berlin-Kreuzberg September 17th -
Club 103, Falckensteinstr. 47 , August 26th - Rio
July 30th Tierpark Berlin July 18th - Bastard Club Kastanienallee 7-9 July 9th - nbi with ASSID (phaser.se gothenburg) MUJIK (delta-b buenos aires) TETSUO (beturecords) TONY TELEX, Assid July 8th - Festsaal Kreuzberg, July 8th Festsaal Kreuzberg with miss kittin (nobody's bizzness),the hacker(goodlife LIVE), hwa young (freizeitglauben), henrik deroux (catch22), intergalactic hufdisco (ponylounge) June 23rd compact Space DJ MissFitz Kathedrale (Schliemannstr. 40) Spinster Sister Deep (Prenzlauer Allee 246) Hufdisko (Ponylounge) Woody + Lars Sommerfeld (Fumakilla) Silversurfer (bpitch control) Eddie da Silva (gmf) Nicole (roots2fruits) J-Star (London) schnappi darkwave berlin schnappi
Frankfurt Bremen Dortmund Duisburg Düsseldorf Essen Hannover Stuttgart Dresden Leipzig Nürnberg Bochum Bielefeld Bonn Mannheim Wuppertal Zürich Luzern Aachen Augsburg Braunschweig Chemnitz Erfurt Freiburg Gelsenkirchen Hagen Halle Karlsruhe Kiel Krefeld Lübeck Magdeburg Mönchengladbach Münster Oberhausen Wiesbaden Graz Basel Bern Genf Lausanne Linz Salzburg Innsbruck Bottrop Bremerhaven Cottbus Darmstadt Erlangen Fürth Gera Göttingen Hamm Heidelberg Heilbronn Herne Hildesheim Ingolstadt Jena Kaiserslautern Kassel Koblenz Leverkusen Ludwigshafen Mainz Mülheim Neuss Offenbach Oldenburg Osnabrück Pforzheim Potsdam Recklinghausen Regensburg Remscheid Reutlingen Rostock Saarbrücken Salzgitter Siegen Solingen Trier Ulm Witten Wolfsburg Würzburg Würzburg Zwickau Baden-Württemberg Rheinland-Pfalz Saarland Bayern Nordrhein-Westfalen Hessen Niedersachsen Brandenburg Sachsen-Anhalt Thüringen Sachsen Schleswig-Holstein Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Deutschland Schweiz Niederlande Österreich Luxemburg London
siegelhead - pop's not dead siegelhead - Berlin's music clubbing scene Atari Teenage Riot Berlin 90's DHR movement Cobra Killer dirty garage beats live shows Canadian Canada Merrill Nisker Peaches electroclash noise grooves RETRO 70's lo-fi version ultra-produced produce hits hit propaganda Berlin Germany Ralph Siegel Frank Farian Farian's Siegel's Russia feminine dominance MEN IN DENIM JACKETS Peaches capitalist anarchistnihilist occult Berlin's music clubbing scene Atari Teenage Riot Berlin 90's DHR movement Cobra Killer dirty garage beats live shows Canadian Canada Merrill Nisker Peaches electroclash noise grooves RETRO 70's lo-fi version ultra-produced produce hits hit propaganda Berlin Germany Ralph Siegel Frank Farian Farian's Siegel's Russia feminine dominance MEN IN DENIM JACKETS Peaches capitalist anarchistnihilist occult Berlin's music clubbing scene Atari Teenage Riot Berlin 90's DHR movement Cobra Killer dirty garage beats live shows Canadian Canada Merrill Nisker Peaches electroclash noise grooves RETRO 70's lo-fi version ultra-produced produce hits hit propaganda Berlin Germany Ralph Siegel Frank Farian Farian's Siegel's Russia feminine dominance MEN IN DENIM JACKETS Peaches capitalist anarchistnihilist occult electro trash berlin electro pop trash electro trash berlin electro pop trash poptrash berlin electropop berlin electrotrash electroclash berlin bastard bastardpop berlin electro trash berlin electro pop trash electro trash deep berlin berlin electro pop trash electro trash berlin electro pop trash german germany israeli israel electro trash berlin electro pop trash electro trash berlin electro pop trash electro trash berlin electro pop trash electro trash berlin electro pop trash electro trash berlin electro pop trash music sound deep berlin
siegelhead - pop's not dead siegelhead - pop's not dead siegelhead - Berlin's music clubbing scene Atari Teenage Riot Berlin 90's DHR movement Cobra Killer dirty garage beats live shows Canadian Canada Merrill Nisker Peaches electroclash noise grooves RETRO 70's lo-fi version ultra-produced produce hits hit propaganda Berlin Germany Ralph Siegel Frank Farian Farian's Siegel's Russia feminine dominance MEN IN DENIM JACKETS Peaches capitalist anarchistnihilist occult Berlin's music clubbing scene Atari Teenage Riot Berlin 90's DHR movement Cobra Killer dirty garage beats live shows Canadian Canada Merrill Nisker Peaches electroclash noise grooves RETRO 70's lo-fi version ultra-produced produce hits hit propaganda Berlin Germany Ralph Siegel Frank Farian Farian's Siegel's Russia feminine dominance MEN IN DENIM JACKETS Peaches capitalist anarchistnihilist occult Berlin's music clubbing scene Atari Teenage Riot Berlin 90's DHR movement Cobra Killer dirty garage beats live shows Canadian Canada Merrill Nisker Peaches electroclash noise grooves RETRO 70's lo-fi version ultra-produced produce hits hit propaganda Berlin Germany Ralph Siegel Frank Farian Farian's Siegel's Russia feminine dominance MEN IN DENIM JACKETS Peaches capitalist anarchistnihilist occult electro trash berlin electro pop trash electro trash berlin electro pop trash poptrash berlin electropop berlin electrotrash electroclash berlin bastard bastardpop berlin electro trash berlin electro pop trash electro trash deep berlin berlin electro pop trash electro trash berlin electro pop trash german germany israeli israel electro trash berlin electro pop trash electro trash berlin electro pop trash electro trash berlin electro pop trash electro trash berlin electro pop trash electro trash berlin electro pop trash music sound deep berlin