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Wuppertal, Germany (1978 – 1986, 2003 – present)

The Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft (DAF) is an influential / band from Düsseldorf, formed in 1978 in Wuppertal, Germany featuring drummer/synth player Robert Görl, vocalist Gabi Delgado-Lopez, guitarist Wolfgang Spelmans, Kurt Dahlke “Pyrolator”, Michael Kemner, bassist and bassist/keyboardist/saxophonist Chrislo Haas. The band’s name is a term that had originally been used in West Germany, without irony, in the early years of the Cold War, at the height of German popular enthusiasm for all things American, and as humoristic counterpart to the “deutsch-sowjetische Freundschaft” (german-soviet-friendship) parole used in the German Democratic Republic. (GDR, or DDR in german)

DAF’s most famous song is the grimly sarcastic “Der Mussolini” from the album “Alles Ist Gut”, a pulsing dance song featuring the lyrics “Dance the Mussolini, move your behind, clap your hands, and now the Adolf Hitler, and now the Jesus Christ, and now the communism …”. The song caused a scandal amongst the more humourless elements of German liberal society.

In interviews they claimed to not target anything or anyone specific while creating lyrics to be taken as a parody of words and phrases floating around in the public media. “Sato-Sato” and “Der Mussolini” are both examples of songs written around Delgado-Lopez’s fascination with the sound of a particular word.
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  • lodyforyou

    Robert Görl lowe!

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  • Sanketh

    All the best for them. Splendid duo.

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    so fucking good

    23 days ago

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    great music ! ;^)

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    im feeling stiff as well [2] This music gives me a hard-on!

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    one of my favourite bands ever, main influence over the pure Old School EBM ;)

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    True. Though Die Rauber Und Der Prinz....

    March 2012

  • wisbech

    Homoerotic - yes, gayest band ever - no. Lyrics are mostly about love/sex with women. Plus this was the 80s everyone looked gay back then

    March 2012
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