Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft are probably better known as the easier to pronounce D.A.F. (The guys you see above are the two remaining members.)
They've done a whole lot of brilliant and different music since around 1979. Moved from screeming noise and experimental to electro to synthpop, and made this rather jolly and super-gay song in 1985.
Let's play
Let's play
Let's play
Let's play
It's all about the brotherhood of brothers, and playing, loving, and caring for your brother from a different father, or different mother. Together they can play, like brothers do.
It's so good and cheeky and brilliant and while its setup is somewhat simple, it's very different from their early grittier stuff, which was sometimes like dance-punk. Or D.A.F. punk.
D.A.F. - Brothers
Listen / Buy: GEMM / eBay / Music Stack
You have to see the video, with the brothers wiggling their hips in a tent in the desert.
Pyrolator is Kurt Dahlke, one of D.A.F.'s founding members, who left early to focus on his own music. He is one of my favorite artists, there are unbelievably many brilliant songs scattered over his releases, in many different styles.
You should buy whatever Pyrolator stuff you can find, here are two songs so you know why.
From 'Ausland' LP (1981):
Pyrolator - Max
From 'Wonderland' LP (1984):
Pyrolator - Gespraech Mit Der Erde
Kurt Dahlke also founded Ata Tak Records, which released D.A.F. and his own stuff. You can buy all the Pyrolator stuff there. He also blogs about his Tenori On.
Comments(3)
Ohhh I love 'Brothers' so much, great pick. Anything else they've done similar to that? This songs been burning a hole in my iTunes for months now without me investigating further...
Written 20.03.08 20:45
hallo halli
nice to see DAF mentioned somewhere, though i never got into them, not my style. i wasnt sure if they were trying to be synth or industrial, and i couldnt take them seriously. i do have their album (with brothers and 1st step to heaven and other tracks) but i'm looking to get rid of it. do you want it? i'll send it to you. shoot me an email.
Written 08.04.08 10:58
Brian: a lot of their stuff is noisy and weird compared to 'Brothers'. The album it's on has stuff that's kinda like 'Brothers'. Well, kinda, heh.
Pablo: I know what you mean. It's really hit or miss with them for me too. Regarding the album, I'm sending you an email.
Written 14.04.08 10:29