Adios [Remaster]

Performer: KMFDM
Artist: Nina Hagen
Distributor: Alternative Dis. Alliance

Notes: KMFDM: Sascha Konietzo (vocals, guitar, programming); Tim Skold (vocals, bass, programming); En Esch (vocals, cymbals, programming); Cheryl Wilson, Nina Hagen, Ogre (vocals); Gunter Schulz (guitar); Frank Chotai, William Rieflin (programming). Producers: Sascha Konietzko, Tim Skold, Chris Shepard. Engineers: Sascha Konietzko, Tim Skold, Chris Shepard. KMFDM: Nina Hagen, Ogre (vocals); G�nter Schulz, Sascha Konietzko (guitars); Tim Skold (bass instrument); En Esch (drums); Frank Chotai, William Rieflin (programming); Cheryl Wilson (background vocals). Audio Remasterer: Brian Gardner . Mistakenly billed as the industrial band's swan song at the time of its original 1999 release, KMFDM's last album of the '90s is also one of its most accessible, with its lighter tracks, such as "Witness" and "R.U.OK?," recalling the '80s electro-pop of the Human League and Depeche Mode. Those assuming the band had gone soft were in for a rude awakening, however, with the ominous cadences of cuts such as "Bereit" and the twitchy menace of "D.I.Y." providing a gothic counterpoint to the album's frothier moments. ADIOS was re-released in 2007 as part of a planned retrospective of the band's back catalog. Mistakenly billed as the industrial band's swan song at the time of its original 1999 release, KMFDM's last album of the '90s is also one of its most accessible, with its lighter tracks, such as "Witness" and "R.U.OK?," recalling the '80s electro-pop of the Human League and Depeche Mode. Those assuming the band had gone soft were in for a rude awakening, however, with the ominous cadences of cuts such as "Bereit" and the twitchy menace of "D.I.Y." providing a gothic counterpoint to the album's frothier moments.

Alternative Press (10/99, p.94) - 4 out of 5 - "...ADIOS is one hell of a good-bye....KMFDM are settling the score with one last deadly blast of - well, more beat-driven, guitar-fueled, diva-wailing action....it provides a campy and caustic exit for KMFDM." CMJ (5/10/99, p.24) - "...[ADIOS] continues in the group's grand tradition of techno-informed industrial-fueled beat manipulation....The programmed, scintillating beats form an electrifying chemistry with the subtle guitars and female backing vocals...a satisfying sendoff for KMFDM." New Music Monthly (7/99, p.51) - "...every new KMFDM album has consistently meant jackhammer beats and martial rhythms, techno bloops and overdriven metal guitars....ADIOS ladles up a heaping helping of the KDFM essentials..."

The German industrial dance act KMFDM were one of the first bands to recognize the link between the mechanical ferocity of industrial music and the unrelenting rhythms of the dance floor. Although they formed in Germany in 1984, they soon made a name for themselves in the United States as one of the premier bands on the seminal Chicago industrial label Wax Trax. While their popularity faltered a bit in the wake of more cartoonish American versions of KMFDM's aesthetic, the band's influence on industrial music can not be underestimated.

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