DAT p o l i t i c s

(old) news:

DAT Politics. just finished a new deviant Hit called 'Bubble Queen' for Clicks'n Cuts 3 comp on Mille Plateaux, it should be in stores in November 2002. September is a good time to work hard on new remixes : one for Numbers on Tigerbeat6, one for Electronicat on Angelika Köhlermann one for Jaga Jazzist on Smalltown Supersound .

dat politics live dates:
Sat 9th of nov  London (UK) @ ICA Lektrolab DAT Politics +.. Sat 16th of nov
Bourges (FR) @ Emoson festival DAT Politics +...
=46ri 29th of nov Breda (NL) @ Mezz DAT Politics +... Sat 30th of nov
Roubaix(FR) @ Gymnase DAT Politics + Chicks On Speed
DAT Politics will also be on tour in Italy From The 5th till the 15th of
december please check out : www.Mdbs.at www.ski-pp.com

For more gig info, see: http://www.mdbs.at/.

album info:

Plugs Plus is the fourth and new album of the computer trio DAT POLITICS. Based in the historic industrial city of Lille, their cheap laptops generate more than ever some epileptic micro-rhythm escorted by childlike acid melodies. But the real novelty resides in the warped and distortioned singing exercises which are this time mixed-up to their digital hymns.

Help in their experiments came by some protagonists of the international electronica jet-set, as BLECTUM FROM BLECHDOM (two lovely ladies from California: Christine Erickson and Bevin Kelley, who also released on Kid 606's Label Tigerbeat6), MATMOS (Björk programmer on her Vespertine release), KID 606, FELIX KUBIN or LESSER, DAT POLITICS flash by the way of music but also texts some pixellised and pop snapshot focused on failed flirt and gastronomy.

After work with innovative and respectable labels as A-MUSIK; MILLE PLATEAUX, SKIPP or TIGERBEAT6, now the laptop band collaborates with electro trash label from the Berlin-based trio CHICKS ON SPEED to diffuse their domestic and terribly exotic new sonic adventures. Funny, futuristic and radical: THIS is future electronic pop! The CD is designed by CHICKS ON SPEED in cooperation with DAT POLITICS.

Watch the stories with the band in the April 2002 issues of Groove, de:bug and Spex: it'll be an eyecatcher.

Release Info:

DAT Politics
Plugs Plus (CD)
cosr 006 / efa 29906-2
March 28 2002

Tracklisting:

1. dat politics
2. re - folk
3. pie (feat. Blectum From Blechdom)
4. Allo! Pepperberg
5. Morgens, Mittags (feat. Felix Kubin)
6. Senior Actif
7. tout bleu
8. icq
9. food
10. nitpickers
11. love noodle (feat. Blectum From Blechdom)
12. nude noodle (feat. Blectum From Blechdom)
13. pass our class (feat. Matmos and Kid 606)

Recorded at Lovestock Studio Summer/Fall 2001.
All tracks by Dat Politics.

With voices & lyrics by:
Kristin Erickson (3, 9, 11)
Bevin Kelley (3, 9, 11)
Felix Kubin (5)
Jo Zimmermann (11)
Martin Schmidt (13)
Gaëtan Colet (3, 7)
Drew Daniel (13)
Claude Pailliot (7)
Jason Doerck (13)

Additional sounds & keyboards: Emaric Aelters (4, 11), Felix Kubin (5), Miquel Dipedro (13).

Thanks for their participation:
Alex, Kiki, Melissa & Chicks on Speed team, Blectum From Blechdom, Schlammpeitziger, Felix Kubin, Lesser, Kid 606, Matmos, Aelters.

Photography by Elsa Pharaon.

Design by Skipp on Speed.

Thanks also to: all the bookers, gig organizers & friends who helped us.

Published by Edition Chicks SACEM.

Digipak inlay with an image and credits

[See more graphics from DAT POLITICS page.]

Reviews:

The Wire

Links:

http://www.ski-pp.com/

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