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Biography
Norefs|date=August 2011Infobox musical artist| name = Die Warzau| image =| caption =| background = group_or_band| origin = Chicago , Illinois| genre = New wave music|New Wave , Synthpop , Industrial music|Industrial , Electronic body music|EBM | years_active = 1987–2011| label = Fiction Records|Fiction , Atlantic Records|Atlantic , Mercury Records|Mercury , Polygram , Wax Trax& #33; Records|WaxTrax! , Pulseblack | associated_acts = Apartment 26 Dead On TV The Dreaming (band) – USA|The Dreaming Eco-Hed Everplastic Go Fight KMFDM Pigface Sister Machine Gun Stabbing Westward | website = http://diewarzau.com| past_members = Van Christie Dan Evans Abel Garibaldi Christopher Hall (musician)|Christopher Hall Jim Marcus Chris Vrenna Xmas Smits Kevin Temple Mars Williams Die Warzau (originally Die Warzau Synfony ) 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 group released Disco Rigido in the late 1980s.
A second album, Big Electric Metal Bass Face , was released in the early 1990s. Contributors to the band at the time included Chris Vrenna and James Woolley (both members of Nine Inch Nails during the mid-1990s), and audio visual artist Burle Avant, who went on to co-create the MTV television series Amp (TV series)|Amp .
Engine , a 1995 release on Wax Trax / TVT Records|TVT , was the last album the group released before going on hiatus for almost a decade, and included contributions from Chris Randall (musician)|Chris Randall of the band Sister Machine Gun (SMG). One of the songs written by Die Warzau during this time, "Hole In the Ground," ended up on the SMG album Burn (Sister Machine Gun 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 2004, the duo re-united, together with new members Abel Garibaldi and Dan Evans, releasing Convenience on their Chicago-based label Pulseblack Records.
2008 saw the release of Vinyl 88 , a collection of remixes and previously unreleased tracks including "Born Again" (for which a video was released) and "Hitler's Brain", a collaboration with funk pioneer George Clinton (musician)|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 http://www.remixgalaxy.com RemixGalaxy.com The different musical elements (vocals, drums, bass, etc.) of each song are available as separate tracks, which allows fans (and/or budding remixers) 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.
Discography
Disco Rigido (1989)
#Welcome to America #Man Is Meat #Jack Hammer #Bodybag #Sexus #Money After All #Strike to the Body #I've Got to Make Sense #National Security #Shake Down #Tear It Down #Bodybag EditDub#Free Radio Africa #Tagata en Situ #Cross Burning, Pt. 2 #Land of the Free
#Crack Radio #Funkopolis #Never Again #Shock Box #Brand New Convertible Car #Burning #All Cut Up #Coming Down Live#My Pretty Little Girlfriend #Red All Over #Pig City #Dying in Paradise #Suck It Up #Head
Engine (1995)
#Missing It #Liberated #Lizardoplacentis #Muck #Cyberdelia Non Corborundum #Grounded #Heroina.d. #Belly #Ultraplanet #Pughead (Badacidanimals) #Allgoodgirls #Material #Shakespeare #Amphibious #America
Convenience (2004)
#Crusaders #Go Going Gone #Permission #Radiation Babies #Glare #Bliss #Linoleum #Superbuick #Terrorform #Curious #Gone Chemical #Kleen #King of Rock and Roll #Come as You Are #As We Are so We Are #Shine
Vinyl88 – Not the Best of Die Warzau (2008)
#Insect (Butterfly Re Edit) #Land of the Free (Red Metal Mix) #Born Again (Reborn Edit) #All Good Girls (Girls Redrawn KMFDM Remix) #Glare (Album Edit) #Funkopolis (To Le Funk Mix) #Crusaders (Mission to Mars Mix) #Welcome to America (Single Cell Remix) #Coming Down (Black Ops Mix) #Kleen (Cleaner Mix) #Last Generation (Rapture Re Edit) #All Cut Up (Twist and Scar Remix) #Nitelight (Medicated Mix) #Smacktime #Permission (Album Edit) #Hitler's Brain
Borghild (2009)
#Big Hit Radio (Desktop Porn Mix) #We Are Electric (Tens Rod Re-Edit) #Insect (Waspkiller Fetish Mix) #Mona Lisa Communista (Chastity Mix) #The Gun Song (Penile Extension Mix) #UNS (Unnatural Selection) (Unnatural Sex Mix)
Trivia
Both Christopher Hall (musician)|Christopher Hall ( Stabbing Westward / The Dreaming (band) – USA|The Dreaming ) and Chris Vrenna were members at one point.
Kevin Temple ( Sister Machine Gun , Apartment 26 ) was a member during the Engine era.
Warzone Recorders was started by Van Christie and Jim Marcus in part of Cabrini Green Housing Projects http://www.sonic-boom.com/interview/warzone.interview.html Sonic Boom Interview
PULSEBLACK Records, a Chicago Indie Label is now home to Die Warzau http://www.pulseblack.com Pulseblack Records
In 1991 Die Warzau supported Nine Inch Nails on tour. http://www.theninhotline.net/nin_historian/show_posters.html NIN Hotline
Van Christie worked at Traxx Records (from 1994–2004) and worked with Lil Louis on the hit "French Kiss"
Abel Garibaldi who is credited on "Convenience" is head recording engineer for R. Kelly
Jim Marcus is a well-respected typeface designer for http://www.t26.com/fonts/designer/645-Jim-Marcus T26 Font Foundry.
Album "Convenience" wins Industrial Album of the Year, 2006 http://www.jpfolks.com/home.html Just Plain Folks Music Awards
