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PostPosted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 7:10 pm


[this is taken from Wikipedia]
KMFDM is an industrial rock band and the brainchild of founding member Sascha Konietzko. KMFDM was founded in Paris on February 29, 1984 as a joint effort between Konietzko and German painter/multi-media performer Udo Sturm to perform for the opening of an exhibition of young European artists at the Grand Palais. Sturm had no lasting musical aspirations and Konietzko was interested in studio recordings more than the occasional art-performance, therefore he joined forces with then-Hamburg-based studio owner Raymond Watts and drummer Klaus Schandelmaier, later known as En Esch. After working the Hamburg underground and releasing three albums on European labels they began their relationship with Wax Trax! Records in Chicago, Illinois. After touring with Ministry in 1989–1990, they were signed to Wax Trax! Records and quickly became a part of the industrial music scene in Chicago that included Ministry, Front 242 and My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult. Konietzko then moved to Chicago; Esch followed a year later. After close friend and president of Wax Trax! Records Jim Nash died of AIDS, KMFDM relocated to Seattle, Washington.

KMFDM has no fixed line-up; rather, it is a "revolving-door" collaboration of contributors. Konietzko is the only member that has been directly involved with every KMFDM project. En Esch, Raymond Watts, and guitarist Günter Schulz are other key members in the band's history.

Other notable musicians that have contributed to KMFDM projects include Bill Rieflin of Ministry/R.E.M., Nivek Ogre from Skinny Puppy and ohGr, John DeSalvo of Chemlab, Tim Skold of Shotgun Messiah/Marilyn Manson, F.M. Einheit of Einstürzende Neubauten, Nina Hagen, and spoken word artist Nicole Blackman. Additionally, Chemlab, Die Warzau, Nine Inch Nails, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, and Giorgio Moroder have remixed music for KMFDM.
PostPosted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 7:13 pm


[albums]
Opium (1984) (Remastered & reissued, 2002)
What Do You Know, Deutschland? (1986) (Remastered & reissued, 2006)
Don't Blow Your Top (198 cool (Remastered & reissued, 2006)
UAIOE (1989) (Remastered & reissued, 2006)
Naïve (1990) (Remastered & Reissued, 2006)
Money (1992) (Remastered & Reissued, 2006)
Angst (1993) (Remastered & Reissued, 2006)
Naïve/Hell to Go (1994) (Out of print)
Nihil (1995) (Out of print)
Xtort (1996) (Out of print)
(a.k.a. Symbols) (1997) (Out of print)
Adios (1999) (Out of print)
Attak (2002)
WWIII (2003)
Hau Ruck (2005)

[singles]
Kickin' a** (1987)
Don't Blow Your Top (198 cool
More & Faster (1989)
Virus (1989)
Godlike (1990)
Naïve/The Days of Swine & Roses (1991)
Split (1991)
Vogue (1992)
Money (1992)
Help Us/Save Us/Take Us Away (1992)
Sucks (1993)
A Drug Against War (1993)
Light (1994)
Glory (1994)
Sin Sex & Salvation (1994)
Juke Joint Jezebel (1995)
Juke Joint Jezebel: The Giorgio Morodor Mixes (1995)
Year of the Pig (1995)
Trust/Juke Joint Jezebel (1995)
Brute (1995)
Rules (1996)
MDFMK (199 cool
Boots (2002)
Ruck Zuck (2006)

[live albums]

Sturm & Drang Tour 2002
WWIII Live 2003

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Flinty
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 7:24 pm


The current members of KMFDM is:
Sascha Konietzko, Lucia Cifarelli, Jules Hodgson, Steve White, and Andy Selway.

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