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 Laibach (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Laibach are also known for their cover versions, which are often used to subvert the original message or intention of the song - most notable being their cover version of the song "Life is Life" on the album Opus Dei, which completely changes the meaning of the song from the original writers' intentions.
Laibach have frequently been accused of both far-left and far-right political stances due to their use of uniforms and aesthetics and also due to the Wagnerian influence found in some of their music, notably the thunder in "Sympathy for the Devil (Time for a Change)" and releases such as Macbeth.
Laibach is a Slovenian industrial, martial, Neo-classical and experimental music group.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laibach_(band)   (801 words)

  
 WAT - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
WAT released September 8, 2003 is an album by Slovenian industrial/techno music group Laibach.
The CD included a bonus video of "Tanz Mit Laibach" and the vinyl LP and promo CD "Reject or Breed".
"B Mashina" performed by Laibach / Tomi Meglič - 3:50
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAT   (101 words)

  
 the Slovenian
Laibach used the last "Beatles" album to mirror the events of Yugoslavia's disintegration.
Laibach had been previously recording their music on consumer grade four track tape machines.
The concert was recorded and released later that year as a semi-official bootleg titled after the festival.
http://home.cogeco.ca/~slovenianamerica/articles/campbell.htm   (4215 words)

  
 TrouserPress.com :: Laibach
Laibach's version of Let It Be (an LP the group has said it considers the Beatles' worst) realizes the entire album (minus the title track) as melodramatic drinking and fighting songs, with horns, synthesized strings and military beats.
Laibach has always maintained that Western pop music is simply an expression of capitalism, that rock stars should be viewed as successful businessmen and that concerts are akin to political rallies for canned rebellion.
Laibach themselves contribute two non-Kraftwerk pieces (quasi-liturgical under their own moniker and frenetically sampledelic as Kraftbach) which open and close the album, setting it in the broader framework of Slovenian vs. Trans-European cultural identity.
http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=laibach   (1532 words)

  
 Slovenija Expo 2000 - info
The Band of the Avseniki Brothers has been performing for four decades and has released over 50 record albums.
So far the band has produced thirty original compositions which are, for the most part, composed, but the band is also given to improvisation to some extent.
The driving force of the band is Iztok Turk, the originator and key composer of the Slovenian techno music.
http://www.slovenija-expo2000.com/info/eng/nastopajoce_skupine.html   (1452 words)

  
 [mute] Laibach: Anthems / The Videos
Laibach Anthems will be released on 4th October as a 2 x CD hardbook package.
CD1 of the album is a collection of the best of Laibach's anthemic songs including previously unreleased material while CD2 will contain mixes, some of which are unavailable elsewhere.
Containing seven mixes of the song, including previously unreleased material, the single is released on CD and 12".
http://www.mutelibtech.com/laibach   (202 words)

  
 [ NSKSTATE.COM ]  [ LAIBACH ] [ Post Modern Post Mortem ]   
WAT is the band's simplest, most minimal techno album, stripped down to Laibach's basest potencies.
The first line on the title track of Laibach's new album "WAT" is "we are no ordinary type of group".
Therefore, the album's title, We Are Time, spells Laibach's confusing and tantalizing play with icons, images and ideas from the entire history of the 20th century.
http://www.nskstate.com/laibach/interviews/wat-avi.php   (1740 words)

  
 Plug In music : Review of Laibach - Laibach
Laibach’s sinister image was further reinforced in the public mind by the band’s stark drum-and-synthesizer sound, Nuremberg-rally-like live shows, and mostly German lyrics sung in a devilish death-metal croak, backed by eerie, Wagnerian choirs of boys and women.
After an inflammatory appearance on state-run television, Laibach were banned from performing or releasing albums for seven years (they continued to perform and release records, though they never put the Laibach name on the covers or posters).
Fortunately, it’s hard to miss the band smirking inwardly behind their stone-faced masks on this particular video, in which Milan Fras portrays Mick Jagger’s lyrical Lucifer as a full-on Dracula-style super villain, sitting down for a feast of flesh and blood with his uniformed band mates and pet wolf.
http://www.pluginmusic.com/review.php?page=laibach   (981 words)

  
 ARTMARGINS: Winifred Griffin - LAIBACH: The Instrumentality of the State Machine
Laibach were not allowed to appear in concert under the name "Laibach," but the band continued to perform concerts announced through posters invoking Kassimir Malevich's Suprematist image, the Black Cross.
Laibach is a musical group that first began performing in the mining town of Trbovlje in central Slovenia in 1980.
I want to discuss the post-punk, industrial music band Laibach in terms of their aesthetic use of the symbols and rhetoric of totalitarianism and nationalism.
http://www.artmargins.com/content/feature/griffin1.html   (3706 words)

  
 knot.magazine : print
Perhaps Laibach's best original tunes appear on 1996's Jesus Christ Superstar, most notably the sinister "God is God." But even on this tight and well-produced album, a cover of Prince's "The Cross" characterizes Laibach as still willing to take familiar American music and twist it into their own foreign message.
One of the only other clearly discernable aspects of this "band" is the music.
In 1990, Laibach released Sympathy for the Devil, basically a single with nine title tracks working around the Rolling Stones' infamous jam.
http://www.knotmag.com/?print=399   (752 words)

  
 Laibach: WAT - PopMatters Music Review
Laibach themselves had abandoned the style for their last album, 1996's religious-themed Jesus Christ Superstars, exchanging their by-then trademark combination of hard electronic beats, Wagnerian classical flourishes, and operatic choirs for a metallic guitar onslaught, not unlike the sound Rammstein would eventually introduce to the world with less associated baggage.
This also allows the band to return to the use of a musical backdrop that has become all-but-extinct in the new millennium.
As a result, the band is able to function outside of the current state of their outmoded genre.
http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/l/laibach-wat.shtml   (907 words)

  
 Stinkweeds Online Music: Your independent source for indie, rare, new, import CDs, LPs and reviews.
Laibach never did just compose noisy, bombastic songs, but anthemic, huge, bombastic musical statements.
You can gather, from Laibach’s music, the evolution of industrial music.
The presentation of the tracks on this double disc gives credence to Laibach’s bravado and braggadocio.
http://www.stinkweeds.com/review_detail.cfm?rvID=503   (603 words)

  
 New York Press
While he insists that many of the songs had been recorded even before the idea was consolidated, both bands worked together on the track list to make the song order on the album as cohesive as possible.
Led by minimalist-driven guitarist David First (who had, by the time the band was conceived, already played with pianist Cecil Taylor's band), the Notekillers were meant as an escape from free jazz into a more primal punk take on atonal scales.
Both bands seem to savor the same inspirations, mixing a lot of 90s influences with their own styles.
http://www.nypress.com/print.cfm?content_id=11439   (3506 words)

  
 Willamette Week Online Music MUSIC & NIGHTLIFE LIFE IS LIFE (11/17/2004)
While the first disc features some of Laibach's most rousing tracks, the second disc includes remixes of its most popular songs, as well as a handful of unreleased recordings.
The album's success inspired the band to give some classic pop songs the full Laibach treatment.
Although the band plays with fascist imagery and Wagnerian grandeur, its artistic intent is far more subversively anti-authoritarian.
http://www.wweek.com/story.php?story=5750   (795 words)

  
 www.LawrenceRock.com
By the time Laibach charged into the 1990s, all traces of their native Slovene were gone, and one finds only the occasional German track amidst albums recorded almost entirely in English.
In 1987 Laibach saw two important releases, Slovenska Akropola (Slovenian Acropolis), an album in both Slovene and German, and Opus Dei, and album in both German and now English, with no songs recorded in Slovene.
Kraftwerk is widely known and respected for being one of the first bands, and certainly the most well-known, to successfully combine electronic music with enough of a pop flavor to draw international distribution as well as radio and club play.
http://www.lawrencerock.com/articles/language.html   (1651 words)

  
 Siddharta: Aiming at the World
Rare for Slovene bands, they released "Lunanai" as a five-track CD single.
– one for the band, one for the orchestra and one for nearly 50 dancers.
The band’s flirtation with English has culminated into their first English-language album, released on 3 September.
http://www.geocities.com/ljubljanalife/Siddharta.htm   (1749 words)

  
 Bagatellen: Laibach/Killing Joke
A Laibach song, heard out of context, is just a weird Teutonic techno track.
Laibach forces me to rethink my position on the uses of irony in music.
They concede absolutely nothing to the listener; the band doesn’t seem to care if anyone "gets it." Over time, though, that stone face has cracked.
http://www.bagatellen.com/archives/reviews/000327.html   (597 words)

  
 Laibach Links
There is a short history of the band and, if you search around, some old audio samples.
Good site for finding out about Laibach's rare concerts and CD releases.
You can buy Laibach CDs from this site.
http://www.ottava.co.uk/laibach/lailinks.htm   (1083 words)

  
 Dark Culture Magazine - REVIEWS
Intentional or not, it's ironic to say the least that a band so wed to sexless, utilitarian imagery would lace their music with such blatant homoerotic overtones.
You can glower all you want, but you aren't going to convince me that a band that remakes Beatles and Rolling Stones classics as disco marching songs doesn't have a sense of humor.
Visit the fictional country of Laibach at www.laibach.nsk.si.
http://www.darkculture.net/archive/reviews/laibachwat.shtml   (552 words)

  
 Laibach
During 2005 Laibach were a little less active than the previous two years but still quite busy performing around 35 live dates plus releasing a new album by their sub-group 300,000VK.
They are putting the finishing touches to a highly anticipated new album, which should be released by Mute before the end of the year.
A number of musical projects were released, notably the new 300,000VK album Titan, also released were exclusive tracks for the compilations 'Trans Slovenia Express 2' and 'Looking For Europe'.
http://www.gla.ac.uk/~dc4w/laibach/laibach.html   (375 words)

  
 Rammstein - The Laibach Influence
The band formed in 1994, with six members from East Germany releasing their first single and album Herzeleid the following year.
A band from Germany with a hard Teutonic sound, singing mainly in German and with plenty of unashamedly Germanic attributes.
Although Rammstein have admitted to a Slovene magazine the large influence of Laibach, to their sound, other influences can be heard such as Kraftwerk, Einstruzende Neubauten and even Depeche Mode however the overall bombastic nature of the sound tends to highlight the Laibach elements.
http://www.gla.ac.uk/~dc4w/laibach/rammsteinv1.html   (560 words)

  
 [ NSKSTATE.COM ]  [ LAIBACH ]  [ The Slovenia of Athens ]   
Anyway, the new album "WAT" will show where the spaceship LAIBACH is heading to for the next decade.
Although they contain a great deal of interesting and progressive philosophical, ethical, social and religious subjects and perspectives, the lyrics of the album could (maybe with some exceptions) as well be found on a CD of any other metal-/gothic band.
Up to 1997 I would have come to the conclusion that if a band like RAMMSTEIN was seen as a pocket calculator, LAIBACH would be a spaceship.
http://www.nskstate.com/laibach/reviews/pratolive-review1.php   (708 words)

  
 News
The militaristic band hope to release a DVD of a 1993 concert event that was previously held back by Slovenian Media.
The UK band is currently in Japan touring their "100th Window" CD which also brings them to New Zealand, UK and Europe.
states that this in no way jeopardizes the future of the band and is feverishly working on a new album.
http://www.releasemagazine.net/News/news0303b.htm   (1893 words)

  
 Laibach MP3 Downloads - Laibach Music Downloads - Laibach Music Videos
Since the band hailed from a small industrial town in Yugoslavia, it was only natural for their music to reflect their surroundings (look no further than the repetitive, pulsating factory-clang of the track "Battles").
Previously only available as an import in the U.S., Laibach's classic self-titled 1985 debut was finally released domestically (and the first time on CD) in 1995.
The music is consistently dark, creepy, and stark, which shows that Laibach were extremely cutting edge, and sadly far ahead of their time.
http://www.mp3.com/albums/9269/summary.html   (293 words)

  
 Metal Invader - The True Metal Experience
Now, LAIBACH is a very special band — perhaps one of the most interesting modern bands you may encounter.
Then LAIBACH came on stage (drums, one guitar, bass, and, of course, Milan Fras, on the vocals) and started with the opening track of “WAT”, “B-Mashina”.
The second one was that LAIBACH would be supported by another band, called BONFIRE MADIGAN.
http://www.metal-invader.com/live_27.html   (920 words)

  
 news
After the release of their second album Loverboy, Ljubljana is worth living in again; it seems that after Laibach, we finally have a band that combines musical innovativity with cosmopolitan intellectualism, and is not afraid of concepts.
Loverboy is the second album of a five-piece band formed in 1992, produced again by the Coptic Rain and Laibach producer Peter Penko.
Indeed, this debut from the band from Slovenia is as exciting and varied as discovering an unknown city.
http://www2.arnes.si/~sudpsenk/niowt/reviews.html   (2322 words)

  
 Laibach: Anthems review
This collection, which coincides with a DVD release of their videos, is a 2-disc set; the first being the hits, and the second being remixes.
Laibach has existed as a group for nearly a quarter-century now, so it’s about damn time a “best-of” album came out for the Slovenian-EBM/Industrial pioneers.
The rest of the album has all the classics from “Leben Heisst Leben” (though putting the classic English version, “Life Is Life,” on the disc would have been cool) to “Get Back,” from the song for song cover of The BeatlesLet It Be.
http://www.freewebs.com/titaniumexpress/articles/laibach.htm   (472 words)

  
 Blather.net: Shitegeist: Laibach in Dublin
Eventually, amidst the strobes and fragmentrary projections, the band stride off stage in through a wall of noise, only reappear to play the orchestral cut-up of Anti-semitism, and a peculiar version of the Rolling Stones Sympathy for the Devil.
The band starts into God is God while the ice maidens - 'Helga' and 'Heidi' lash into the two drums, showing off gym-oriented cum drummer-boy dance routines, all the while providing ethereal operatic backing vocals.
This appropriation of cover versions is a staple weapon in the LAIBACH holster - they've even subverted a whole album of Beatles covers (Get Back).
http://www.blather.net/shitegeist/2004/05/laibach_in_dubl.htm   (1023 words)

  
 LAIBACH
The title alludes to the Austrian group Opus which had a huge hit in 1986 with "Live is Life." Laibach covers the song both in German, and then in English with this heavy, fascist orchestrated sound, which makes me smirk, remembering the original craze the pathetically popish song inspired.
I've been listening to alot of Laibach recently.
They also cover Queen's One Vision, and have a bunch of amazing original pieces, some of which are in Slovenian.
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Flats/5589/music/laibach.html   (669 words)

  
 New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock Z
Zingale were an Israeli band who recorded one album (nine tracks) and five singles in the early to mid-seventies.
The music on this CD consists of the main body of their material which was released on LP in probably '77 or '78, and two "bonus" cuts which were recorded by a significantly different lineup of the band in '74.
Zyma are a band from Germany whose CD "Thoughts" was released in 1998 on Garden of Delights.
http://www.gepr.net/z.html   (8005 words)

  
 Laibach -- Let It Be
Fortunately, Slovenian band Laibach was not content to let it be.
Any honest Beatles fan would tell you that Let It Be was by far the worst Beatles album of them all.
If you're not familiar with Laibach, buy their entire catalog first -- you might have to get used to Laibach, especially Ivan's gutteral vocals -- then buy Get Back, on which Laibach covers every song on Let It Be except "Let It Be." That Slovenian humor...
http://www.deuceofclubs.com/tunes/laibach.htm   (117 words)

  
 the Slovenian
Laibach has a strong image and a very distinctive sound so they have always attracted a lot of curiosity and there are those who simply love the bombastic loudest of Laibach’s music.
The ironic point here is that the press had often inspired me to check out a variety of bands but it didn’t with Laibach not until I had actually heard their music, however now that I had heard them these articles furthered my interest.
They made an instant impact with clips of 'Life is Life' and 'Geburt Einer Nation', the programme also made use of other Laibach tracks such as 'FIAT' and 'The Great Seal' as background music throughout the show.
http://home.cogeco.ca/~slovenianamerica/articles/campbell1.htm   (1292 words)

  
 Laibach Lyrics - All Good Tabs and Lyrics
Laibach lyrics, drum tabs, bass tabs, guitar chords and guitar tablature.
Laibach Lyrics - All Good Tabs and Lyrics
Search or browse for Laibach lyrics, drum tabs, bass tabs and guitar tablature
http://www.all-good-tabs.com/lyrics-bands-laibach-3488.html   (125 words)

  
 ZARAZA - Reviews
The Laibach cover of 'Nova Akropola' fits in perfectly with this concept and also provides Zaraza with an opportunity to pay their respect to a band that has been a major influence for them.
This is the absolute worst way to experience this band, which after a few listens I've realized are quite brilliant in their extraordinarily abstract approach.
The result is 8 songs of polish-canadian doom, 7 original compositions and 1 Laibach cover.
http://zaraza.ca/reviews.php?id=4   (2731 words)

  
 Choler Magazine Interview: Laibach
Although Fitch and Flinn intended to broadcast the taped interview on KDVS, 90.3 fm for their radio program HeadcleaneR, the poor sound quality of the recording made such a broadcast undesirable.
SF: So when they say "Laibach," they don't think of Ljubljana, they think of the band.
And they're still very much a vibrant part of pop culture, even releasing new albums and documentaries.
http://www.choler.com/articles/laibach.shtml   (3881 words)

  
 Stumpy Moose - Tales from Suburban Bohemia
After seeing the Slovenian band's concert at Divadlo Archa, I'm still not sure.
Unsurprisingly for a band so often linked with fascism, Laibach are very punctual and are already onstage when I reach the auditorium.
Most of the ingredients of a big rock show are here: The triumphalism, the noise, the lights, the relentless repetition of the band insignia, the audience clapping along en masse to the beat.
http://www.stumpymoose.com/suburbanbohemia/archive.asp?ID=94   (823 words)

  
 The Omega Universe presents - Omega's Laibach Web Page
As this was the first song I heard by Laibach, it left me wanting more.
This song could hold its own against a battle with Type O Negative which is my favourite gothic band.
"double LP with all tracks recorded before the first LP Laibach, many unique tracks with the first singer, who left the band in the early time"
http://www.pathcom.com/~omega/laibach.html   (877 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Anthems: Music
First cd of the album is a collection of the best of Laibach's songs from '80'S to 2004 (including the lust studio album WAT and some previously unreleased material).
You need must to have this double cd compilation in your private collection, it's HISTORY of one of the fatality, sparow-hawk and disastrous band in the alternative music of lust and this century.
Sure, if you have all cd single's from LAIBACH you'll have more than 5-6 new songs like Plastikman rmx, Mark Stent, J. Reactor, RANDOM LOGIC etc...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002UJK0O   (443 words)

  
 CoC : Laibach - Jesus Christ Superstar : Review
Throughout the past 15 years, Laibach have proven to be one of the most experimental industrial band in a genre possessing countless risk takers.
Yep, Laibach have made a passe jump onto the overcrowded industrial metal band wagon, resulting in their most mainstream effort to date.
As with all Laibach albums, _JCS_ is a step above all others in whatever sub-genre they decide to dabble in; the patented Laibachian choirs and overblown symphonic elements are all here, adding a melodic, and quite mystical, dimension that no other industrial metal band can match.
http://www.chroniclesofchaos.com/Articles.aspx?section=2&id=316   (330 words)

  
 Heimdallr
Non Toxique Lost is the legendary German band that released one impossible-to-find album in the 1980s and impressed everybody with their track on the QED compilation.
The trademark of the band from Halle is a successful mosaic of language, music, and representing images.
A limited vinyl edition of 15 numbered copies with a bonus LP and original piece of art by the band.
http://www.heimdallr.ch/News/newsGB.htm   (17571 words)

  
 Dein Schatten
The smooth, captivating, yet hard hitting sounds are indicative of his determination to create a masterpiece with each and every note and lyric.
Born in Dortmund, Germany, 1954, BornZero began at age seven playing the guitar and by the age of twelve escalated to playing in the band TRAUMTORTE.
After ATLANTIS, BornZero played in the kraut rock band, GURU GURU, a kult band popular in Germany and Japan.
http://www.mbus.com/bands/genadm/Dein.Schatten.htm   (475 words)

  
 ArtForum: How Slovenian is it? Michael Benson on Laibach - Music
The occasion was the unveiling of their new album, WAT ("We Are Time"), and gone were the band's trademark pair of bare-chested Aryan drummer boys, replaced by two conventionally attractive women in majorette uniforms making exactly the same moves, only now with a decidedly different effect.
It was therefore all the more gratifying a surprise that their reappearance in late July, in their cradle, the heavily industrialized Slovenian mining town of Trbovlje, was a resounding success--no longer for the band's threats to state power but simply on the level of their formidable onstage skills and "musical" content.
This was one of the most provocative uses of state television by any group of artists, not just in Eastern Europe.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_2_42/ai_109023337   (653 words)

  
 Beatles FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) by Douglas Boynton Quine
The band wanted a fast and loud song and that's what John was going to give to them.
Their popularity and continuing influence is even more staggering due to the fact that, as a signed band, they only existed for seven years.
Personally I would start with "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" or "Abbey Road" for "late" Beatles and "With the Beatles" or "Beatles for Sale" for "early" Beatles.
http://www.quine.org/beatfaq   (8293 words)

  
 Laibach - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Laibach (album), self-titled debut album by that band
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
Congress of Laibach, held in 1821 in Ljubljana/Laibach.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laibach   (108 words)

  
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 Laibach - TheBestLinks.com - Slovenia, Ljubljana, Laibach (band), Disambig, ...
Laibach - TheBestLinks.com - Slovenia, Ljubljana, Laibach (band), Disambig,...
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http://www.thebestlinks.com/Laibach.html   (141 words)

  
 - Media Club - Laibach (MP3, Photo, Lyrics, Covers)
- Media Club - Laibach (MP3, Photo, Lyrics, Covers)
http://mclub.te.net.ua/vcat.phtml?inaff=jrfree&action=va&singer=1052   (9 words)

  
 Fear the kittens. Music- Laibach - Tanz Mit Laibach, animation by Joel Veitch, rathergood.com
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http://www.rathergood.com/laibach   (24 words)

  
 Laibach - WAT : album review
Tanz Mit Laibach - the first single from the album - takes us into serious headbanging territory and as its name suggests, is the closest this band probably comes to a pure dance track, though Achtung!
I'm not sure I've heard a Slovenian band before, let alone one credited with co-founding an art collective that was declared a virtual State in Time, issuing its own passports and staging embassy and consulate events in many countries.
You get the picture - we're talking heavy politics here, which is possibly why Laibach were banned in their home town before their first live performance.
http://www.musicomh.com/albums/laibach.htm   (473 words)

  
 Laibach - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
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