DIE VERBOTEN
08/07/2008

Die Verboten is a music project of David and Stephen Dewaele, Riton and designer Fergadelic.

Summer 2009 they released their first EP 'Live in Eivissa', a full album is expected later this year.

It will probably be released on a DVD (or 'Die Verboten Disc' as David called it in an interview).

LIVE IN EIVISSA
08/07/2008

From The Vinyl Factory website:

'Live In Eivissa' is the world-wide debut release by Die Verboten, an audio-visual side-project that can best be described as 'space music', bringing together the musical and visual talents of Soulwax, Riton and Fergadelic.

Die Verboten is a project that uses the studio as a compositional machine and a sound laboratory; a project that integrates sound and image.

This hand-numbered and stamped first edition includes an exclusive, 12" vinyl-only release of 'Live In Eivissa', an 18-minute epic recorded in Ibiza, on the A-side, and a unique laser-etched artwork on the B-side.

Created by artist Fergadelic, the folding pyramid features tapestry artwork and treated photographs taken at the Die Verboten recording sessions in Ibiza.

Inner sleeve also features exclusive artwork, and a list of all the analogue synthesizers and studio kit used in the sessions.

'Live In Eivissa' pressed on super-heavyweight 200-gram 12" vinyl crafted on the legendary EMI 1400. This edition is limited to only 300 copies worldwide!

MAKING OF
08/07/2008

From The Vinyl Factory website:

Recording:

As the name suggests, 'Live In Eivissa' was recorded in live in Ibiza.

"We had a mini-studio set up by the pool outside, with a mixing desk, synths, sequencers, guitars and drums," recalls Fergadelic of the Die Verboten recording sessions.

"We work in a very angst-free way anyway and working in Ibiza we had the added dimension of recording outdoors, in the warm in a really beautiful environment with a whole bunch of people hanging out there. I'll never forget recording outside as the sun was setting. Most Balearic."

Musical influences:

"Various continental European music, like kraut, new beat, cosmic, N.D.W, Vangelis (especially his 'Earth' album!), Balearic, French stuff (from Heldon to Plastic Bertrand), etc. We love Neu!, Can, Kraftwerk, Ashra, Harmonia, Peter Baumann, Michael Bundt, Lilienthal, Achim Reichel, Harald Grosskopf, Klaus, the Tangerines, Amon Duul II, Popul Vuh, Faust, La Dusseldorf, Phantomband and pretty much anything on the Sky, Brain and Innovative Communication labels."

Production:

Hand-crafted by The Vinyl Factory, this limited edition has been produced to the very highest standards here in the UK. All our vinyl is pressed using the finest machinery in the world, the EMI 1400 press, with the most advanced mould ever made.

PRESS QUOTES
08/07/2008

From The Vinyl Factory website:

"This supergroup's debut release is suitably cosmic in every way imaginable!"
FACT magazine

"We constantly try to experiment and make music in a very free way. The whole experience is an experiment, in fact."
Fergadelic

"The mere fact that it took two years for this piece of music to surface, shows the infinite love we have for the concept of 'space'."
Die Verboten