Die Warzau


Die Warzau was an industrial music band formed in 1987 by performance artists Jim Marcus and Van Christie.

History

Originally signed to Chris Parry's Fiction Records, the pair released Disco Rigido in 1989.
A second album, Big Electric Metal Bass Face, was released in 1991. Contributors to the band at the time included Chris Vrenna and James Woolley, and audio visual artist Burle Avant, who went on to co-create the MTV television series Amp. Die Warzau supported Nine Inch Nails on tour the same year.
Warzone Records was started by Van Christie and Jim Marcus in 1994 as part of Cabrini Green Housing Projects.
Engine, a 1995 release on Fiction/Wax Trax! and distributed by TVT, was the last album the group released before going on hiatus for almost a decade, and included contributions from Chris Randall of the band Sister Machine Gun. One of the songs written by Die Warzau during this time, "Hole In the Ground," ended up on the SMG album Burn.
Die Warzau as a group then went on hiatus for a number of years, with Marcus and Christie working on other projects. Jim Marcus founded the pure funk group Everplastic while Van Christie worked on another project called Eco-Hed.
In 2005, the duo re-united, together with new members Abel Garibaldi and Dan Evans, releasing Convenience on their Chicago-based label Pulseblack Records. The album won the Just Plain Folks Industrial Album of the Year in 2006.
2008 saw the release of Vinyl 88, a collection of remixes and previously unreleased tracks including "Born Again" and "Hitler's Brain", a collaboration with funk pioneer George Clinton. While some of the tracks had seen prior release, many of the remixes featured re-recorded elements.
In 2009, Die Warzau made several songs – many from the recent Convenience and Vinyl 88 releases – available for remixing at The different musical elements of each song are available as separate tracks, which allows users the opportunity to create their own versions of the songs or incorporate the parts into their own original tracks under personal, non-commercial license.
In 2011, Die Warzau announced on their Facebook page that their performance at the WTII Minifest 2 on June 12 would be the band's last performance before breaking up. The live personnel included Jim Marcus, Dan Evans, Vince McAley, and Jay Ramirez.
In 2013, the band announced that they will reunite to play one show at the "Cold Waves II" festival held in Chicago in late September 2013.

Discography

Disco Rigido (1989)

  1. Welcome to America
  2. Man Is Meat
  3. Jack Hammer
  4. Bodybag
  5. Sexus
  6. Money After All
  7. Strike to the Body
  8. I've Got to Make Sense
  9. National Security
  10. Shake Down
  11. Tear It Down
  12. Bodybag
  13. Free Radio Africa
  14. Y Tagata En Situ
  15. Cross Burning, Pt. 2
  16. Land of the Free

    Big Electric Metal Bass Face (1991)

  17. Crack Radio
  18. Funkopolis
  19. Never Again
  20. Shock Box
  21. Brand New Convertible Car
  22. Burning
  23. All Cut Up
  24. Coming Down
  25. My Pretty Little Girlfriend
  26. Red All Over
  27. Pig City
  28. Dying in Paradise
  29. Suck It Up
  30. Head

    Engine (1995)

  31. Missing It
  32. Liberated
  33. Lizardoplacentis
  34. Muck
  35. Cyberdelia Non Corborundum
  36. Grounded
  37. Heroina.d.
  38. Belly
  39. Ultraplanet
  40. Pughead
  41. Allgoodgirls
  42. Material
  43. Shakespeare
  44. Amphibious
  45. America

    Convenience (2004)

  46. Crusaders
  47. Go Going Gone
  48. Permission
  49. Radiation Babies
  50. Glare
  51. Bliss
  52. Linoleum
  53. Superbuick
  54. Terrorform
  55. Curious
  56. Gone Chemical
  57. Kleen
  58. King of Rock and Roll
  59. Come as You Are
  60. As We Are so We Are
  61. Shine

    Vinyl88 – Not the Best of Die Warzau (2008)

  62. Insect
  63. Land of the Free
  64. Born Again
  65. All Good Girls
  66. Glare
  67. Funkopolis
  68. Crusaders
  69. Welcome to America
  70. Coming Down
  71. Kleen
  72. Last Generation
  73. All Cut Up
  74. Nitelight
  75. Smacktime
  76. Permission
  77. Hitler's Brain

    Borghild (2009)

  78. Big Hit Radio
  79. We Are Electric
  80. Insect
  81. Mona Lisa Communista
  82. The Gun Song
  83. UNS