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Herpes Ö DeLuxe

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Herpes Ö DeLuxe, formed 1995, is a four piece group from Bern/ Switzerland working in a musical field between atmospheric noise, electronica bruitiste, sombre soundscapes or harsh drones. Their instruments are partly analogue electronic gear, partly self-built or deconstructed tools like tape loops or turntables that are (mis-)used as rhythm machines.Live performances - electronic and acoustic soundscapes, ranging from ambient sounds and playful collages to devastating, rhythmic noise attacks - always refer to the moment. According to this, an exclusive set is elaborated for every event, no one of which is ever performed again in the same form, because the spontaneous aspect would be lost and a reproduction would be in opposition to the interactive play of the four musicians, which depends strongly on the situation of a given event, without being improvised. Shows are often complemented with performance elements or other actions.Besides concerts in the traditional sense, Herpes Ö DeLuxe have been involved in numerous other activities; they made the live music for the theater 'Habgier', and regularly produce the soundtracks for the ‘pyrotechnical interventions’ of the artist Pavel Schmidt (Solothurn/Munich). Those events usually take place in museums or art spaces.
Sporadically they are also teaming up with singer Beat-Man (frontman of the well known Garage Rock/Punk-Band The Monsters). Under the name Reverend Beat-Man & The Church Of Herpes they are producing a more song-orientated brand of music, closer to the common ‘pop’-scheme but with a noisy edge. They call this genre Electronic Gospel Trash.
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Member Since: 5/17/2007
Band Website: www.tollerort.org
Band Members: Von Wurstfinger, Hess, BlindDoc, Roger.Z
Influences: Early Industrial Music, Musique Concrète, Electroacoustic, Dada, Minimal Music, Field Recordings, Sound Art, Noise...and a shitload of other music outside of that narrow range.
Sounds Like:

Untitled Split-LP (2009) with S/T. Ltd ed.100. Buy here: www.tollerort.org

Kielholen CD (2007) Buy here: www.hinterzimmer-records.com

Havarie CD (2003) Buy here: www.everestrecords.ch

REVEREND BEAT-MAN & THE CHURCH OF HERPES
Your Favourite Position Is On Your Knees CD/LP (2006)
Buy here: www.voodoorhythm.com

Record Label: Hinterzimmer Records/ everestrecords
Type of Label: Indie

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Split-Release with S/T

Finally another vinyl release! Fantastic Experimental Krautrock-duo S/T from Frankfurt, Germany, invited us to do a split-release together on their "Pure Pop For Now People"-imprint. Since their CD on...
Posted by on Wed, 06 May 2009 06:35:00 GMT

New compilation track out now!

Fantastic 'Public Guilt Records' from Baltimore released an amazing 3 CD-Set titled 'Unititled' containing 55 tracks by mostly american noise artists like Burning Star Core, Thurston Moore, Dead Machi...
Posted by on Sun, 20 May 2007 04:10:00 GMT

New full length-CD on Hinterzimmer Records

'Kielholen' is the name of the new Herpes Ö DeLuxe full length-CD, released by young swiss label 'Hinterzimmer Records'  (www.hinterzimmer-records.com) although it's not containing new material b...
Posted by on Sun, 20 May 2007 04:22:00 GMT