Andreas Dorau S/D

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I know next to nothing about Andreas Dorau but I was somewhat taken by "Fred Vom Jupiter" when I heard it on one of the 'Soulwax' 2 Many DJs mixes (part 8, I think) and now I can't get it out of my head.

I searched the archives and found a few positive references to Dorau and Kohncke's "Durch die nacht" and also "Girls in Love". What, if anything, else should I look for?

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Sunday, 21 November 2004 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)

das telefon sagt du!

― :| (....), Sunday, 21 November 2004 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

omg there is a perplexer remix of that. breathe slsk! goddammit breathe!

― :| (....), Sunday, 21 November 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

'fred vom jupiter' is one of my favourite songs ever, i too want to know if any other stuff is any good.

― DJ Salinger (joni), Sunday, 21 November 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I have "Der Lachende Papst" 7", which is very not-poppy and quite funny, "Antworten Auf Brennende Fragen", which is straighter (more band-sounding) music but very enjoyable, "Demokratie", which is poppy and has interesting arrangements, and "70 Minuten Musik Ungeklaerter Herkunft", which I would say the same about, except it has more of a disco sound at times. I have a couple of CD singles as well, including a Bee Gees song retitled "Die Menschen sind Kalt" and "So Ist Das Nun Mal" (original on "70 Minuten..."); I'm not so interested in the remixes, though, as it's mostly the writing I tend to like.

― Pangolino (ricki spaghetti), Sunday, 21 November 2004 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

He made some good records with Holger Hiller, if you're into electronic baroque operetta about trousers.

― Momus (Momus), Sunday, 21 November 2004 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I've wanted to hear that one for years!

― Pangolino (ricki spaghetti), Sunday, 21 November 2004 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

There was a compilation that came out a few years ago that wasn't so bad (I think it was Atatak, but don't quote me on that). You can find various singles on NDW comps, and you get the added bonus of other treats (Nichts! Spider Murphy Gang! Joachim Witt! The White Stripes (Nena's old band)).

― Guymauve (Guymauve), Sunday, 21 November 2004 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

"Girls In Love" is great, esp. the Grungerman (Wolfgang Voigt) mix.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 21 November 2004 22:02 (twenty-one years ago)

if you can read german, check out "Verschwende Deine Jugend" by Juergen Teipel. it's a very good interview-based about the independent music scene in late 70s/mid 80s germany that andreas dorau was very much a part of. he's in it quite a bit.

http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3518397710/qid=1101075364/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_11_3/302-9573087-6457643

one of the best music books i know. highly recommended!

― xenografia, Sunday, 21 November 2004 22:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Also check out his work as a member of Red Crayola on the 'Malefactor Ade' lp.

― lefty, Sunday, 21 November 2004 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Whaa??? Red Crayola? What did he do on that LP?

― Pangolino (ricki spaghetti), Sunday, 21 November 2004 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Dunno exactly. The credits aren't specific. 'Malefactor Ade' came out in 1989, when Mayo Thompson was living and working in Germany. The band on the album is Thompson, Albert Oehlen, Werner Buettner, Andreas Dorau, and Ruediger Carl.

Some idiot at Pitchfork has this to say about it (and can't spell "Dieter" properly):

"Naturally, this incarnation of Red Crayola features a backing band that consists of severe Deiter-like German types. These goofy Kraut noise-makers assist Thompson in bringing forth his garbled musical vision: there's plenty of ridiculously off-beat drumming, maybe a few programmed beats here and there, and someone's bass burps occasionally. Certainly, this is apt nonsensical backing music for Thompson's nonsensical lyric-writing and palsied guitar strumming. Every once in awhile, classical-sounding backward tape loops flutter about like so much discarded newspaper caught in a breeze. And with songs covering such insightful topics as frogs that resemble baby Jesus, auto- mechanical sex, dead actors' gardens, coasters, and blue jeans, what's to love?"

― lefty, Sunday, 21 November 2004 23:06 (twenty-one years ago)

nobody listens to pitchfork.

said perplexer mix is graet. the bits that arent fucked up by trance buildups and rave sounds and corny synth choir arpeggios dont sound dated at all. (theres also a mike ink mix that sounds like it was made yesterday. by robag wruhme.)

― :| (....), Monday, 22 November 2004 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost

That's an odd band. I don't know who Werner Buettner is, and didn't know that Albert Oehlen even did music, but I say Ruediger Carl and Andreas Dorau are two people you want to have in your band. "severe Deiter-like German types"... great.

― Pangolino again, Monday, 22 November 2004 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks for all your suggestions, I've got a few things queued on slsk and might order something from atatak if I like them.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 22 November 2004 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

five months pass...

kein liebeslied, the new single, is total crap

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 08:26 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

Woah.

― Tim F, Sunday, 15 February 2009 12:50 (seventeen years ago)

six years pass...

great stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gv_Kr0dy5E

― niels, Saturday, 23 January 2016 16:27 (ten years ago)

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