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Currently listening to industrial rock band KMFDM. Just got their 1996 Wax Trax! compilation Retro in the mail, with songs from previous albums: Xtort, Nihil, Angst, Money, Naïve/Hell to Go, Uaioe, What Do You Know, Deutschland?, and Don’t Blow Your Top. For some reason, I gravitate towards more and more aggressive music nowadays, especially those with extreme totalitarian aesthetic like KFMDM, and its close cousin Nitzer Ebb. Must be the stress of dissertation writing. Both bands sport Soviet propaganda art on their album covers. Aidan “Brute!” Hughes, for example, has been doing stunning graphic art–a cross between Russian constructivism and Roy Lichtenstein–for KMFDM’s sleeves since 1985. In 1993 he also animated their music video A Drug Against War.
2 July 2008 at 8:40 am
More stress = more aggressive music. Excellent remedy for thesis-induced mental constipation. :D
Oh yes, I dropped by your blog to inform you that we’re planning to revise and update the old Sci 10 book we’ve been using for the past years. Might you be interested in updating your own articles…right after working on your dissertation papers?
2 July 2008 at 10:15 am
No problem! Tell Armand I’ll be glad to do participate once again with the Sci10 project.
Best,
Ted
10 April 2009 at 8:30 pm
I’ve always been a fan of kmfdm’s ablum art. Brute is fucking fantastic. He should do comic books!
10 April 2009 at 11:59 pm
I agree. He can totally do something noirish like Sin City.