However, a positive thing about it is, it continued exactly where DAF of the time left off towards the more disco-familiar territory (with 'First Step To Heaven').
This very first demo cassette is typically raw and sounds too similar a flat reproduction of DAF's to be distanced from that band alone. Nitzer Ebb alone should be responsible for hordes of DAF imitators (at this very early stage themselves included) that continue to lean on the very same DAF pattern to this present day - however, the duo of Bon Harris and Douglas McCarthy (at first Dave Gooday was also a member) remain a unique force which, unlike many after them, had the luck to improve DAF's legacy, providing the original with a desired hardcore update. Somehow, it still got their foot in the door. Wildly different from the Nitzer Ebb we know, on its face it doesn’t seem a particularly strong contemporary of anyone in industrial music’s earliest melodic spaces. Most follow a painfully basic formula: spare drum patterns and loud crash cymbals, repetitive synth stabs from one keyboard with similar notes across multiple songs, and McCarthy delivering not his signature gravelly yell but soulful half-singing in the style of Bauhaus’ Peter Murphy. The first eight songs Harris, McCarthy, and Gooday were brave enough to commit to tape comprised a demo to shop to labels and a product to sell to early fans and concertgoers. ⚠️ DIGITAL ALBUM CONTAINS ONLY TRACKS PREVIEWS ⚠️
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