Disco Inferno

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地区: United Kingdom 英国

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by Andy Kellman

Disco Inferno was formed by teenagers Ian Crause (guitars and vocals), Paul Willmott (bass), Daniel Gish (keyboards), and Rob Whatley (drums) in Essex in 1989. By autumn of that year, Gish was no longer part of the band after its restructuring; he would later join Bark Psychosis; the remaining trio began gigging around London to indifferent pub crowds. The bands early work, summed up on the accurately titled In Debt, bears the heavy influence of Joy Division, Wire, and other significant post-punk bands of the late 70s and early 80s. Though derivative and not nearly as experimental and imaginative as the bands later work, the material on In Debt successfully pays tribute (and at times rivals) the output of their predecessors. Without knowing it, you might think them to be a Factory band, circa 1981 — dark, jagged, and haunting.

Crause soon became infatuated with the unique sounds of My Bloody Valentine and the Young Gods, as well as the Bomb Squads revolutionary production and sampling on Public Enemys records. A major turning point for Disco Inferno, they began to issue a series of some of the most uncompromising and experimental music of the mid-90s. The Summers Last Sound EP in 1992 marked this new beginning. Percolating indifference and economic troubles on the part of the bands label, Cheree, came to a head, and Rough Trade came to the rescue and began to issue the bands releases. The new label saved the bands life, as the members believed that they were too challenging for anyone else to understand or care for. The years of 1993 and 1994 turned out to be Disco Infernos most productive and creative, yielding four EPs and an LP, D.I. Go Pop. Disorienting, confusing, and highly schizophrenic, the challenging releases were in direct contrast to the prevailing Brit-pop scene of the time. They took A.R. Kanes futurist pop a couple steps further and secured a devout and small following that found solace in their wildly imaginative, peerless nature.

After the Its a Kids World EP, Crause found himself in a creative rut and hadnt the slightest clue as to what their follow-up should entail. Feeling creatively drained from Go Pops boundary-breaking vision and inability to gain sustainable recognition, Crause and company mustered enough creative strength to record Technicolour, which didnt find release until 1996 and failed to register a blip on the commercial and critical radar. By that time, the group dissolved out of frustration and a seemingly endless, downward financial spiral. The bands last recording session saw posthumous release as a six-song EP on the Tugboat label. Crause continued to record under the Floorshow alias, but none of his work surfaced commercially until a single of salvaged material (issued under his own name) hit the racks in 2000.

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