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December 15th, 2003: If you want to see a trailer for the forthcoming BUNNY LAKE project, go to www.bunnylake.net. More stuff will be online on the beginning of 2004.Meanwhile, Christian Fuchs aka Bunny Fox and Dr. Nachtstrom are very happy to work with a wide range of associates and accomplices. Foremost are several female singers, but there is also Italian composer Teho Teardo, an old collaborator of FETISH 69 and the whole New York post-punk scene as well. And then BUNNY LAKE are proud to announce another members of the collective: Austria¹s most eccentric photographer Max Wegscheidler, the extraordinary website designers Super Fi, and NYC-based visuals artists Suk & Koch with their mind-blowing digital creations. November 25th, 2003: For a indefinite period of time the members of FETISH 69 are working again on their solo activities. Singer and mastermind Christian Fuchs created an ambitious music project together with his longtime friend Dr. Nachtstrom called BUNNY LAKE. Inspired by noir films as well as italian giallo movies, photographers like Guy Bourdin and Terry Richardson and artists like Georgina Starr, the first tracks sound like twisted electronic pop music.October 15th, 2003: Today a few things call for a celebration: One is a brandnew music video for the track "Cocoon", filmed and directed by Viennese newcomers LENZO and Didi Sommer. Filmed on various locations the clip is an hommage to the road movie-genre and features Austrian shooting star model Teresa Rotschopf, together with FETISH 69 singer Christian. Yu can watch it here and here.The other reason to party tonight at the Fluc club is the release of a cool vinyl single on the highly acclaimed Klanggalerie label. One side of the limited 7" is a jazzy and moody FETISH 69-collaboration with the infamous Dr. Nachstrom ("All The Screens Are Dark Tonight"), the flipside includes a song together with Industrial Rockers Schlund ("Retox"). You can order this exclusive piece of vinyl at www.klanggalerie.com. September 15th, 2003:
May 31st, 2003: In addition to the confirmed live-dates in Austria, Fetish 69 will also play european dates in late autumn, together with the one and only Dr. Nachtstrom from Mego Records.
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March 8th, 2003: February 26th, 2003: Finally german producer Mario Thaler (The Notwist, Lali Puna, Console), who worked also on the "Geek"-album, mixed again some of the most outstanding songs in his Uphon-studio in Weilheim. One very slow and dark monstertrack called "Detox" came out of a collaboration between Fetish 69 and Humbucker aka Wolfgang Frisch, a member of Vienna's infamous dub-groove-band Sofa Surfers. How to describe the sound of the new album? Be ready for a mixture of leftfield-rock, moody experimental electronics and for the first time some nearly pop-hooks as well. This is Fetish 69 again purging the past and taking a big step into the future. February 5th, 2002: A new album in the pipelines:It's a very long time since the last update, how can we apologize? But finally here are exciting news from the Fetish 69-headquarters. First, a brandnew studio album is right now in the making. All the basic tracks are finished, the band is now working on drum-edits and Christian prepares to record his vocals. It is still not decided where to mix the records. "For the first time my lyrics are not dealing with claustrophobic situations and personal isolation only", he explains. "The new album will deal much more with the world outside the door, with the boredom and frustration of daily life in a typical western city on the beginning of the new millennium. You can say the 'geek' from our last studioalbum left his small appartment and confronts his surroundings." "About the musical side, I'm very enthusiastic", tells the singer, "we take all the experience we had with electronic music in the last years - especially after 'Dysfunctions & Drones' - and use it to construct deeply emotional songs. Maybe my bandmembers disagree, but for my ear it's the perfect mixture of everything Fetish 69 ever did well. It's state-of the-art-electronics crossed with the energy and melancholy of our most rocking stuffs" But you also may ask: what happened during the last year with Fetish 69? Besides working with Toxic Lounge and various musicians, Mr. Christian "Fetish" Fuchs finished his first english book, ready for release in march 2002. It's called Bad Blood and simply tries to be the most complete guide about killers and psychopathic outsiders and their influence on films and mass media. Started as an english version of Christian's german book KINO KILLERS, after a while it took a life of it's own. Bad Blood is published by London's Creation Books, where the Fetish 69-singer joins proudly the company of writers like David Kerekes (Headpress), Jack Sargeant, Suehiro Maruo or Lydia Lunch, not to speak of DeSade or Lovecraft. The preface is written by none other than (in-)famous Berlin filmmaker Jörg Buttgereit. Check out www.creationbooks.com and order Bad Blood at amazon.com. More detailed information follows soon. Guitarplayer Robert Lepenik turned into a fulltime member of Tonto, a cool record label from Graz, specialising in wicked experimental music of all kinds. Check out their wide range of releases at www.tonto.at (including a lot of stuff from Robert himself) and be prepared for some weird futuristic stuff coming. Robert plays and records with LaLeLoo (a duo with Austrian avant-composer Bernhard Lang), the Vienna Loop Orchestra and in Bernhard Lang's "DW2" with the Klangforum Wien. He is also the master-mind of the strange (sl)eazy listening-group Melville. In the meantime, drummer Rainer founded with his twin-brother (or is it just a similar looking buddy?) and female vocalist Makki the band Binder & Krieglstein, getting a lot of airplay from alternative stations. Far away from the doom'n'gloom of Fetish 69 Rainer follows a sampledelic groovy-schmoovy direction, with dancefloor-tracks full of hooklines that would not sound out of place on labels like Wall of Sound or Skint. Check out www.zeiger.com for upcoming Binder & Krieglstein news. On the other hand there's Schlund, the grim industrial-electro-meltdown of percussionist and keyboarder Garfield, together with Austrias legendary vocalist Didi Bruckmayr. December 10th, 2000: Forget the usual boring remix-compilations. "Dysfunctions & Drones", the new Fetish 69 double-cd, is available now on Trost-Records. Featuring collaborations, remixes and brandnew experimental songs by Fetish 69, this is the missing link between old school-industrial and new rock, abstract electronics and ambient headz-music.After many changes (some collaborators missed the deadline, others arrived in the very last minute) we're proud to present the full line up:
Leading Art & design wizard Andi Ehrenberger worked again on the coverlayout, featuring pictures by the mysterious JJ Kucek, one of Austrias upcoming photographers. November 3rd, 2000: Finally the Fetish 69 remix- and collaboration-album has a title: "DYSFUNCTIONS AND DRONES". Because so many cool tracks arrived in the band-headquarter, the Fetish-guys decided together with Viennas Trost-Records to release a limited edition enhanced double CD (!) including two videoclips as well. Last week the band took their most ambitious project so far to the mastering studio. Watch out for the complete tracklist soon on this pages.July 20th, 2000: Remix-and collaboration-news galore:Since more and more tracks arrive in the Fetish-headquarters (the most recent one a crawling piece of ueber-darkness by Crooklyn N.Y doom-hop ill saint SPECTRE!) the next album project seens to transform into a double CD! If this really happens, there are plans to release the whole package as a limited edition containing visual material as well. Stay tuned... Spaghetti Nightmares: Together with acts like Therapy? and Linea 77 the gentle geeks from Fetish 69 played the cool Nome Di Rock-festival near Roma, Italy. What will be most remembered (besides the show) is a simple cardrive with Patrizio from local promoters Spurgo Productions. Imagine the rural landscape outside Roma somewhere around noon. Now imagine dust, heat, fire (have you read about all the burning forests in the newspapers?), voyeurism (street prostitution seems quite normal in Italy), violence (a car accident including a bleeding victim) and a heavy drinking driver and you've got the perfect scenario for future Lynch and Cronenberg collaborations. Anyway, if you want to know more about the extreme parts of the italian psyche (think about Lucio Fulci-movies, Don Corleone, Caligula), just ask Christian (vocals) and Robert (guitar) now... April 14th, 2000: More news about the Fetish 69 remix- and collaboration-project coming in autumn. The title is still t.b.a.First be warned: This will not be a conventional remix-album. After Geek Fetish 69 take one big step further into the hardcore electronic listening zone. But it is not the "official band direction", it's more of a sidestep. Aproject especially created to explore very experimental and often instrumental forms of music. "Even if most of the time we ignored typical rock conventions, we worked always within kind of song structures", says Christian, the singer and founder of the band. "But for this forthcoming project we want to go as far as possible into the field of experimental music." The journey started with a few samples from the "Geek"-archives and took soon a route far away from any typical dancefloor-orientated remix-albums. First the band created brandnew tracks out of the ruins of older material. Then Fetish 69 started to ask friends from the Austrian experimental music scene as well as a few international musicians they really admire. Tracks from the following artists already arrived:
March 8th, 2000 Fetish 69 are proud to announce that Cheap Records-mixingdesk wizard Patrick Pulsinger will deconstruct "Back Downhill" (from "Geek") for a vinyl-only EP on Vienna's Trost-Records. The EP will also include remixes of Trost acts Bul Bul and Bottervogel by people like Schorsch Kamerun (Goldene Zitronen) and Pita Rehberg (Mego).Fetish 69 are also planning an album of remixes, deconstructions & collaborations for an early autumn 2000 release. The title is t.b.a. as are the international remixers the band contacted so far. But some very interesting persons from the electronic scenes in Graz and Vienna are already done with their work: Dr. Nachtstrom, one of Austrias gloomiest and most talented breakbeat-artist (and probably the poppiest musician on the otherwise extreme Mego-Label) nearly finished his version of "Incompatible". Be ready for some jazzy dark-hop nachtstrom.widerstand.org FM4 agent provocateur Fritz Ostermayer deconstructs another track as is Avant-Techno musician Kaplan. And expect some heavy beats-treatment from Schlund-mastermind (and Fetish 69-keybord maniac) Garfield. The album will also include some brandnew Fetish 69-material that started as remixes but drifted soon into complete unknown experimental territory. These tracks are called WENT VOICELESS, SURVIVAL DRONE and TUMOR DUB and will be finished soon. |
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