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POPGEFAHR TOUR CONTINUES ! / MERCHANDISING
Posted by KalXIII, the 11.07.2010 / EDIT 01.09.2010 |
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 First, sorry for the lack of updates during these few weeks, but we had troubles with our internet provider : ]
Well, new shows are confirmed since our last update:
27/08/2010 - UK - Bradford - INFEST 2010
08/09/2010 - DE - Hannover (Niedersach) - Muzikzentrum
09/09/2010 - DE - Oberhausen (Nordrhein) - Saint
10/09/2010 - DE - Dresden (Sachsen) - Tante JU
11/09/2010 - DE - Potsdam (Brandenburg) - Lindenpark
16/10/2010 - BUL - Sofia - Sofia Live Club
10/12/2010 - FI - Helsinki - Kylmä Festival
16/12/2010 - FR - Paris - La Scene Bastille
22/01/2011 - POL - Szczecin - LU Lu Club/in the past Can Can
18/06/2011 - SWE - Stockholm - SGA festival
So at first, De/Vision will be headlining the first day of the Infest Festival.
In september, they are back in Germany for 4 dates. They will be supported by Tenek & Iris at Hannover and Oberhausen, and by Tenek & Slave Republic for Dresden & Potsdam shows.
In December they will come in Finland for the first time ever if I'm not mistaking.
They will be back in France, with the support of Waiting for Words.
And they will finally be back in Poland where they were supposed to play a few weeks ago, but the show was cancelled due to the tragic death of Poland's President.
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The band announced that they will be back in America around november, and they will tour together with Clan Of Xymox.
EDIT 01/09/2010: De/Vision won't go in US this year:
"it was planned to tour the USA in November but our plans have been upset!
Details will follow soon and we hope to come back in spring 2011!
...Cheers and have a great rest of the week
DE/VISION"
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The merchandising of POPGEFAHR tour is now
available @ POPONAUT
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POPGEFAHR TOUR page is now open with all the dates of the past gigs and setlists of some of them
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DIGITAL DE/VISION REVIEW OF POPGEFAHR
Posted by KalXIII & FFKR, the 09.03.2010 |
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 POPGEFAHR
mAndroids
Rage
What Love Is All About
Time To Be Alive
Plastic Heart
Be A Light To Yourself
Ready To Die
Flash Of Life
Twisted Story
Until The End Of Time
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Here are our 2 reviews of the upcoming album POPGEFAHR
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Well after a few days listening it over and over here is my review.
For my first listening, I have to admit that I wasn't immediatly that impressed. The first thing I only notice was its homogeneity, the fact that all the songs were good and indeed very electronic ! As a matter of fact, POPGEFAHR looks really like NOOB for the way it sounds, but don't get me wrong POPGEFAHR kicks NOOB ass so far... In fact POPGEFAHR JUST KICKS ASS. The more I listen to this album the more I love it.
I was not very a fan of NOOB, I like its electro sound but I always found something was missing in it, I often found that the verses were absolutely awesome but the chorus didn't follow as well. I found NOOB missed memorable chorus with melodies that can't get out of your head, although there were some exceptions like "The Far Side Of The Moon". Well POPGEFAHR erase that statement, D/V's melodies are at their best.
The name of the album is POPGEFAHR and yes it really suits its name it's really good pop music. The sound is very far from albums like 6 Feet Underground or VOID which had a rougher sound with experimental or distorted synth sounds even if there are still some in background. The synths sound is highlighting clean synth sound this time, the albums that are closest to POPGEFAHR are NOOB of course and Devolution, but they're not as good as D/V new baby. The only thing that I could reproach to this album is the fact that 10 songs feel like it's short, 1 or 2 songs more would have been great. But anyway the 10 songs presented are all very good songs, I think they are all what a De/Vision Fan could expect:
First mAndroids, this song is just a perfect way to begin the album, great rythm, full of energy, very entertaining. It's a very danceable song like it was the case of NOOB's "Flavour Of The Week". The chorus is immediatly in your head. De/Vision asked what song would be next single, well my answear is mAndroids, this song is just kicking asses.
By the way... it is hard to choose for a next single, every track has the potential to be the next one.
Rage, deserved to be the first single, I ever reviewed it last week. I still prefer the extended version of the single, hope they will do it this way live ! However, I find this track is not very representative of the whole album, Time To Be Alive is more close to POPGEFAHR in its globality.
What Love Is All About, is a slower track comparing to mAndroids and Rage. It's a beautiful song, its global atmosphere make me thinking of the "Subkutan" Era.
Time To Be Alive is ever reviewed before, this version got's a better break at the end with the "No it's the time" with the vocoder. You can still hear it @ +welt myspace I think.
Plastic Heart sounds very pop ! The verses will make you believe you hear Steffen at the beginning of D/V like in Unversed In Love for example. The chorus is a little retro as well and makes me think a little of old DM sounds or And One. It would be my 2nd choice for a single I think.
Be A Light To Yourself, is a sweet song like we are used to with D/V, the chorus is very mellifluous, very beautiful.
Ready To Die, is the roughest of the album. Steffen sings a bit with anger in it. This song is very entertaining the "mmhh mmhh, haaa haaa" are just unforgetable !
Flash Of Life... Did I ever say my second choice for the next single?... oh F*©K ! This one deserved it as well. This song is just wow, the rythm, the melodies which are very emotional, which goes on and on with the end.
Twisted Story, it seems this song is one of the favorites of the listeners if I consider the poll for the next single. Well it's a great song, it has something retro that I can't explain. This song might be the one I like the less from the album, so I guess I've got shitty tastes :D
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Now... Until The End Of Times... This song is just... "magnifique". What a perfect way to end the album. A very atmospheric song, very emotive, very dark, an unforgetable melody for the chorus that's gonna break your heart deeply. The way this song ends is awesome, with an hypnotic beat that deeply goes you to the end.
Well the only thing you want after this is to push 1 in order to listen it over and over again.
This Album (with a big A) is BIG, such as "Monosex", or "Fairyland". Even if I'm a fan of their "progressive pop" era (6 Feet or Subkutan) I have been totally smitten with POPGEFAHR with its "pure electronic" sound. DE/VISION are coming back at their best, not only musically but Steffen singing is awesome all way long. This is amazing that after more than 20 years De/Vision has still the inspiration to offer here one of their greatest album ever !
mAndroids ***
Rage ***
What Love Is All About **½
Time To Be Alive **½
Plastic Heart **½
Be A Light To Yourself **½
Ready To Die **
Flash Of Life **½
Twisted Story **
Until The End Of Time ***
GLOBAL: **½ almost ***
Bareme:
0 --> :<
* --> :/
*½ --> OK, Good
** --> Good, I like it
**½ --> Very Good, I like it much
*** --> Best songs of all time !
By Kal
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I was warned that the main-title of this album spoke for itself. Popgefahr is pop… well ok… but be careful it could touch you and smash your "Plastic-Heart". For me it's DE/VISION at its best. I used to love their releases with more guitars and acoustic stuff, but honestly, I don't miss it that much on Popgefahr. The band is bringing something new and I can't really compare this album with any other from their discography. All the power of DE/VISION's songs is inside. I mean : songs about love, feelings, everyday-life with perfect catchy melodies, atmospheric-synth, pure recognizable voice, well settled vocoders and brilliant vibes. Let's board this roller coaster…
Popgefahr goes on with the ass-kicking and engaging track called "mAndroids". It's not a habit, listening to that kind of lyric for a DE/VISION's song. But, yey, this is a perfect blame for today's world : "Ye ye ye ye yes, We are all automatic, remote-controlled, we are mandroids, poor mandroids". All said with a massive-bass line (and nice kicks at the end). A brilliant way to began an album.
Then, "Rage" (chosen track for the single release) is one of the most smashing tracks ever released by the band. Groovy beat, massive-bass line again and 'non-habit' angry lyrics : "Last night, I'd killed you in my dream ; Today, I'm gonna make it real". One of their best singles ever released (compared to last ones).
"What's love is all about", the first 'cry from the heart' song. Hell yeah, I'm really touched about this song. Melancholic sounds do everything. Huge and typical atmosphere on this track. One of my faves.
"Time to be alive" is the best way for drying your eyes after such pressure. So you just have to move on and shout "Hey mate, now it's the time to be alive !". Dancable and quite melancholic. The "break" is pleasurable (to be polite). Again a huge track.
"Plastik heart" is just a matter of beautiful melodies and a brilliant way to wake-up. Nothing like the track "Heart of stone" from their "Monosex" album except for the topic.
"Be a light to yourself" really brings you life and energy (before going underground… huh… SO KIND !) by its beautiful lyrics again and atmospheric sounds. Massive chorus !
You'd better be strong, 'cause they are ready to kill you (as they say it).
"Ready to die" is a kicki-ass,rocking track. On this track you can recognize a gimmick from another (huge) band. I'm sure you're gonna recognize it !
With "Flash of life", as I warned you, you're boarding a roller coaster. It seems to be an innocent track from the beginning by its friendly melodies… but it's a backstabber. All a matter of lyrics… "See you in an another life".
Then "Twisted story", a nettlesome track again ! A beautiful raging track with huge melodic chorus and break. Steffen's voice at its best ! I've never heard DE/VISION as angry as that ! The track finishes like a twisted story end : a kick in your face, you can hand-bang with these beats, synthetic guitars and bass-line again… huh ! A high-sensed single for me…
For closing all of this "Until the end of the time"… all begins with a "break with the past, this time I will make it last" and atmospheric sounds… it just turns your hunger off and brings you crying once again. Such beautiful melodies as DE/VISION got the secret with a low-beat end.
After all of this and as a child with a roller coaster, you want more… you put the album on once again.
For me, one of the best DE/VISION albums ever.
by FFKR
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RAGE/TIME TO BE ALIVE RELEASE + REVIEW + VIDEOPREMIERE / PICTURE OF THE FAN EDITION ...
Posted by KalXIII, the 05.03.2010 edited the 07.03.2010 |
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RAGE/TIME TO BE ALIVE single is now finaly released !
So the tracklist of the single is strictly the same as the promo single:
01- Rage(radio cut) 3'34
02- Time To Be
Alive (radio edit) 3'44
03- Rage (extented club version) 5'11
You can download it on many legal download-platform such as:
I-Tunes
Amazon (DE)
Amazon (FR)
Amazon (UK)
Musicload (DE)
7-Digital (FR)
It will cost you between 2.6-3 Euros
VIDEOPREMIERE OF RAGE will be 12/03/2010 on official Myspace !
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Now Let's review this single : ]
Let's go straight, Rage/Time To Be Alive is goddamn awesome
I know it's a fan-site so you might thought i'm not partial, but i will try to explain myself.
First, to my tastes, Rage is
a little better than TTBA. The rythm is very catchy, not very dancefloor as could be "Flavour Of The Week" but dancable someway, a little bitchy :D. The lyrics are quite "Evil" for De/Vision ["Last night i killed you in my dream / today i'm gonna make it real / everybody's sinner baby / and so are you ..."] which is quite fresh and fun, hope the videoclip will follow as well !
Time To Be Alive is also a great song, lyrics are sweeter than "Rage" sounds very electronic with a nice melodie. I alltough prefer "Rage" because "Rage" is more surprising and got something more i could'nt explain [it may be subjective]
The single contains this 2 songs in their Radio Edit, so they're shorter than the originals, but it's cut well done.
The 3rd Track is an extented version of "Rage" which is my favorite track of this single: Wanted more "Rage"? Here you got ! This track let the beat goes on and on and i never felt it was too long. Really appreciate to have a very good extented version of a very good song.
Now here are the few bad points:
- First: Only digital-download. For the collectors it's frustrating. But... OK, OK the promo-single will be in the Limited Fan Edition, so it's OK :D
-3 track only, it's a little short some nice remixes or a B-Side would make the single nicer.
Anyway, i don't want to end this with bad points:
Since many years i usually don't like D/V's singles because i felt it was sometime one of the less good song of the album. As far as i am concerned, "Rage" is the best De/Vision single since "Foreigner"
and one of their greatest song ever.
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First Picture of the Limited Fan Edition was revealed today !
Have a look here
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MORE NEWS:
French review of POPGEFAHR @ premonition.fr:
http://www.premonition.fr/
English review of POPGEFAHR @ SideLine:
http://www.side-line.com/reviews_comments.php?id=44305_0_17_0_C
Steffen interview in Deutsch @ depechemode.de:
http://www.depechemode.de/electro/2010/03/im-interview-devision/
Biggest info is that De/Vision is thinking about recording the upcoming tour for an eventual 2007/2010 DVD. Moreover the tour is going to be as visually impressive as the 2007 one (or even more)
A new show is added:
27/05/2010 - ROM - Bukarest - Silver Church Club
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POPGEFAHR LIMITED FAN EDITION
Posted by KalXIII, the 15.02.2010
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Limited fan edition was just revealed today !
As announced before it will be strictly limited to 1500 copies
it will contains:
- Album in digipack
- A 12-page booklet
- CD promo single
RAGE/TIME TO BE ALIVE
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1 magnet plate with cover motive (3mm thick, 8x8cm)
- USB stick alu/black printed with DE/VISION logo, 2GB memory with MP3 (320kbps) (not write-protected)
- A certificate in cover card size
Here is the full tracklist:
CD Album POPGEFAHR:
01- mAndroids
02- Rage (Album Version)
03- What’s Love All About?
04- Time To Be Alive (Album Version)
05- Plastic Heart
06- Be A Light To Yourself
07- Ready To Die
08- Flash Of Life
09- Twisted Story
10- Until The End Of Time
USB sitck REMIXES:
01- What you deserve - Giant Killer Mix, remixed by Ingo Herrmann
02- Life is suffering - Adaptor Remix, remixed by non-aligned: Harold Kastelijn and Pieter Hooghiem
03- Addict - Lars Hausmann Remix, remixed by Lars Hausmann
04- Star-crossed lovers - Lost in space Mix, remixed by Rotoskop
05- Still unknown - Rude Funka Mix, remixed by Soni Code
06- My own worst enemy - Intuition’s US Radio Edit, remixed by Ken Porter
07- Obey your heart - Handheld Mix, remixed by Ingo Herrmann
08- Life is suffering - enc Remix, remixed by enc
09- Still unknown - What goes up must come down Mix, remixed by Soni Code
Promo CD RAGE/TIME TO BE ALIVE:
01- Rage(radio cut)
02- Time To Be
Alive (radio edit)
03- Rage (extented club version)
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You can pre-order it @ POPONAUT for 44,95 €
The songs recorded last week won't figure in this edition, we'll have to wait & see.
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DAC CHARTS / NEWS / NEW EXTRACTS
Posted by KalXIII, the 14.02.2010 |
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RAGE/TIME TO BE ALIVE Promo CD is a great success in the German DJ community. As a matter of fact, it is for 2 weeks in first position in the D.A.C. charts [Deutsche Alternative Charts].
By the way here is the tracklist of this promo-mcd:
01- Rage(radio cut)
02- Time To Be
Alive (radio edit)
03- Rage (extented club version)
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Here is a listing of radios which get RAGE/TIME TO BE ALIVE in their playlist. All are from Germany but some are listenable on the internet. Just a little tip, some of them take request, so don't hesitate to ask them to play the song you want to hear ; ]
Freies Radio Stuttgart
FSK Radio Hamburg
Lübeck FM, Lübeck
OS Radio, Osnabrück
Radio Galaxy, Hof
Radio Dreyeckland, Freiburg
Radio Funkwerk, Erfurt
Radio Lohro, Rostock
Radio Marabu (Satelittensender)
Radio MK, Sauerland
Radio Okerwelle, Braunschweig
Radio Ostfriesland, Nordseeküste
RBB Radio Eins
Radio SAEK, Chemnitz
Radio T, Chemnitz
Radio Tonkuhle, Hildesheim
Radio ZUSA, Lüneburg
Stadtradio Göttingen
Uniradio "Eldoradio", Dortmund
www.darksection.de
www.dunklewelle.de
www.german-gothic-radio.de
www.black-demon-radio.net
www.rautemusik.fm
www.radio-112.de
www.schwarze-welle.de
www.starradio.de
www.tc-fm.de
www.radio.xes-666.de
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RAGE videoclip was shoot last week end. In the same time, D/V has opened their own youtube channel, so it seems that the videoclip will be online there at first.
http://www.youtube.com/popgefahrrecords
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Myspace and official Facebook now presents all the snippets for "POPGEFAHR":
"Twisted Story" &
"Be A Light To Yourself" were the lasts to be revealed.
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Another important news is that the band came back to Schumann & Bach studio in order to record 2 more songs at the begining of the week.
We can expect these songs to appear in the single or in the album fan edition.
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Another news, but a bad one for our website:
due to all this shitty spamming bots, forum is closed for an undetermined laptime...
We would like to dedicate a MAJOR FUCK OFF for all BOTS spamming for porn, viagra and whatever...
For our true readers, well if you wanna talk with us just add us on Facebook
Sorry for any inconvenience :/
Your Digital-Team
DON'T DISCUSS ANYMORE !
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PROMO PICS + ADD US ON FACEBOOK + TOUR NEWS
Posted by KalXIII / FFKR, 12.01.2010, edited 14/01/2010 |
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Hello Everybody !
New PICS for the promotion of the upcoming album are now online, you can have a look right behind these few lines :D
Photos were taken by Alexander Cerkasevich & Zakhar Yaschenko
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Have a look on PLUSWELT myspace page, you will be able to hear Time To Be Alive (album version) !
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Bands supports were announced today for the upcoming tour:
TENEK from 07/05/2010 to 15/05/2010
INTUITION from 11/05/2010 to 15/05/2010
Katharina Nuttall for Zürich show
Other bands will be announced soon.
An other tour date is added:
03/04/2010 - SWE - Göteborg - Musikens Hus
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On another side je just create a page on Facebook !
ADD US
This Facebook Page was created for 4 main reasons:
- Promote the Fansite
- Make announcement for our last updates
- Take benefice of the facebook community in order to share fresh news
- Just for talking with other Fans
To all the ones who added us, we would be gratefull that you recommand this page to every fan of De/Vision you know, all synthpop fan or all potential listeners who don't know D/V
The Fansite is maybe the most complete source of archive for D/V [even if it could be better], now we're hoping to regroup the most active D/V community thx to this Facebook or with the website forum.
And we apologize in advance, if sometimes, our english langage is crappy :D
Thanks for your support,
Kal & FFKR
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