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artist · ilsa gold
release · regretten? rien!
year · 2003
genre · terror
label · mego
catalogue · mego 058
website · www.ilsagold.at
date · 12-dec-2003
quality · 192kbps/44,1khz
source · compact disc
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cd1: regretten?
01 intro: dreimal roggenbrot 0:04
02 silke 7:11
03 bosnia 303 5:08
04 silke sⁿchtig 5:53
05 ...und was meint peter cornelius dazu? 0:22
06 sonnenpenis 5:09
07 flieger remix 6:06
08 trashcan session (live from the funkhaus) 12:26
09 happy (put your hands in my body) 6:12
10 raver's nature 2:15
11 eggs they see 19:09
cd2: rien!
01 for blond nuns 5:32
02 radioshow pt. 1 - rattenburg 3:42
03 up 6:29
04 radioshow pt. 2 - winterreise 3:23
05 elastico 6:33
06 radioshow pt. 3 - b.u.c.h.s.t.a.b.i.e.r.e. 0:34
07 new york 4:18
08 vienna hardcore 6:45
09 stoned faces don't lie 6:03
12 for blond nuns (chicago remix) 5:22
11 under fire 22:00
playtime · 02h 20m 35s
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they were the darlings of the young rave nation, the nightmare of
investigative party journalism and, needless to say, the kings of
scheiss-house: they were ilsa gold, austria's legendary and
probably most irritating contribution to the history of electronic
music.
it was 1993 that artist and record dealer christopher just joined
forces with party organizer peter "dj pure" votava" the year that
techno was set to become the sound of the decade. starting with
their very first record on vienna's mainframe label, they turned
into shooting stars of the new movement: frontpage, the official
organ of the german techno world, placed "ilsa gold i" at the top
of its charts, and "up" was the track that set the pace on rave
dancefloors that summer.
that same year, "ilsa gold ii" followed with the hits "silke" and
"elastico", which again topped frontpage's charts and managed to
get ilsa gold invited to germany's rave mecca, "mayday" the first
austrian act to do so. but their performance was a provocation:
since the event's organizer gave them only 15 minutes of playing
time, ilsa gold put a dat recorder onstage and spent the time
playing back their hits with the aid of a yogurt machine. the rave
community were distraught.
1994: the big rip-off begins. marusha's "somewhere over the
rainbow" storms the charts, and "bravo" posterboys like marc 'oh
construct their hits according to the ilsa gold formula. ilsa gold
respond to such cases of tastelessness with increasingly merciless
(self-)parody: on "ilsa gold 3" they help themselves to 4 non
blondes' unavoidable hit "what's up" in order to compress 5 years
of techno history into 4 minutes and 30 seconds ("for blond nuns")
and, with the peter cornelius / karel gott medley "silke 2"
sⁿchtig" hand the rave generation its "lucy in the sky with
diamonds". anyone who believed that they alienated their audience
with this introspective, quotation-mad horrorshow would have been
sorely disappointed, however, since according to christopher just,
"the ravers ate it up anyway." in comparison, "winterreise", a
mature late recording in melancholic classical artwork which was
released at the same time, was ignored: not enough fun.
at their next "mayday" performance ilsa gold began with the
statement "ecstasy helps tolerate mayday better", and proceeded to
entertain the audience for 10 minutes with the issue of drug
consumption. by the time dj westbam declared the existence of the
"raving society", ilsa gold had already decided to make no more
live appearances and instead took up media guerilla tactics: in
the tabloid paper "tΣglich alles", to an audience of millions,
peter and christopher outed themselves as romantic homosexuals
("das erste mal"); under pseudonyms they founded the heavy-duty
"sons of ilsa"; and they staged a mudslinging campaign against
their supposed archrivals, which finally culminated in the
legendary scandal of the "la boum deluxe" radio program.
after only three excessive years, in 1996 peter and christopher
decided to go their musical separate ways. since then christopher
just has ironized electronic dance music in the guise of punk
anderson, disco dancer, and house motherfucker, while dj pure has
devoted his efforts to experimental electronica, for mego among
others.
now in 2003 the influential oeuvre of ilsa gold is being
celebrated in due and fitting extravagance. on a double cd,
"regretten? rien!" documents the history of vienna's most
successful export article to the rave generation as a balancing
act between actionism and foofaraw, as battlefield between pop and
subversion. besides all of their hits, the cd set includes
unreleased tracks, rare remixes, and of course an excerpt of the
historic "la boum deluxe" program. there is nothing to regret.
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