Member Since: 9/19/2006
Band Website: electrumlux.com/
Band Members: DARIO DELL'AERE alias David Swan:Lead Vocal
VICTOR LIFE: Keyboards-Computer
MARKUS MOONLITE: LyricsThe story of the FOCKEWULF 190 starts in 1980, when singer DARIO DELL'AERE, alias David Swan, and keyboards player VICTOR LIFE form the Diamond Dogs. At the end of the 70's David Swan used to have a mime show, like the glam clichès of David Bowie, while Victor Life was experimenting electronic sound, ispired by Kraftwerk's music.
These first-time influences of the new group, which started recording in October 1980, were album like "Reproduction" by the Human League and John Foxx's "Metamatic". The first concerts took place in 1981, at the "Taxi Club", a cult-club of Milan-Mailand that was following the tendences of London's "Blitz" and of the New Romantic trend, the one with Visage and Ultravox as godfathers.
With the help of other musicians, the duo invented live shows with a strong futurist imprinting and mystic theatrality, with surprising success. In 1982 guitarist Stan After joins the band, and the first, self-produced, single comes out, "No Sex": in this occurrency the band changes its name in "Ice Eyes".
Thanks to this song, that did good in the underground scene, they succeed in signing a contract with a label and so publish, alias Fockewulf 190, two electrodance singles: Body Heat" and "Gitano", that sold very well (150000 copies) overall Europe, in particular in Germany.
The following tour, in summer 1984, took on stage the first Fockewulf 190 album, that, indeed, never saw the light because of personal problems that obliged singer Victor Life to left the group. Dario dell'Aere, anyway, published a solo single, "Eagles in the night", which was appreciated specially in France.
The italian market trend was not ready for their musical message, so the project stopped to start again only in 1988. The reunion published a cover of Heaven 17, "The eight of the fighting", that unfortunately did not realize the expectations of success. In 1990, the two original members move to the Riviera Romagnola and produce a couple of techno singles under different names, while their interest was switching towards esotherism and the study of classical mysticism. The next ten years are dedicated to the study of the cabbalist methodology of Sepher Yetzirah, and to the relation with different persons of the occult scene. These experiences are inspiring for some projects as the creation of the website.Castel Del Monte il Tempio dell'Apocalisse", and for some musical experiments in different occult websites, with the aim, of Dario dall'Aere, to find a contact with bidimesional entities. Life, from his part, starts writing an esoteric novel: "The golden Last Metamorphisis".
At the end of the 90's, Life starts a new musical collaboration with Arix Studio, in Milan, belonging to sound engineer Arix Dubaz. The new interest in synth pop and a rush of inspiration bring him to create a new project, ELECTRUM LUX, with David Swan again at vocals, and Markus MOONLITE, that had already participated in old projects, as lyrics writer.
The inner scope of the project comes from the possibility to make music out of the limiting italian cultural boundaries that caused its delay: a sort of return to the future, an electronic pray from a mind drowned in the magic world of evocations."
Influences: David Bowie, Kraftwerk, Ultravox and Roxy Music.
Sounds Like: FOCKEWULF 190-VICTOR LIFE
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