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Despite the album's low sales, ''The [[Allmusic]] Guide to Electronica'' notes its influence: "it helped not merely in establishing the group's cachet, but the label's and, in turn, the whole genre of experimental electronic music in the '80s and beyond."<ref name="allmusicguide">Ned Raggett. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GJNXLSBlL7IC&lpg=PT511&ots=R8YywatBhd&dq=queer%20%22wolfgang%20press%22%20allen%20version&pg=PT65#v=onepage&q&f=false "DAF."] ''AllMusic Guide to Electronica: the definitive guide to electronic music'', p114. Vladimir Bogdanov, ed., 2001. Backbeat Books. ISBN 0-87930-628-9.</ref> ''Trouser Press'' notes the band's movement from industrial noise toward modern dance: "Material is more polished, with anarchic synthesizer work slowly integrating a solid, defined beat."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=deutsche_amerikanische_freundschaft|title=DEUTSCHE AMERIKANISCHE FREUNDSCHAFT|publisher=[[Trouser Press]]|first1=Steven|last1=Grant|first2=Ira|last2=Robbins|accessdate=2 March 2014}}</ref> [[Simon Reynolds]], in ''[[Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978–1984]]'', describes it as "brilliant and sinister".<ref>{{cite book
Despite the album's low sales, ''The [[Allmusic]] Guide to Electronica'' notes its influence: "it helped not merely in establishing the group's cachet, but the label's and, in turn, the whole genre of experimental electronic music in the '80s and beyond."<ref name="allmusicguide">Ned Raggett. [https://books.google.com/books?id=GJNXLSBlL7IC&lpg=PT511&ots=R8YywatBhd&dq=queer%20%22wolfgang%20press%22%20allen%20version&pg=PT65#v=onepage&q&f=false "DAF."] ''AllMusic Guide to Electronica: the definitive guide to electronic music'', p114. Vladimir Bogdanov, ed., 2001. Backbeat Books. ISBN 0-87930-628-9.</ref> ''Trouser Press'' notes the band's movement from industrial noise toward modern dance: "Material is more polished, with anarchic synthesizer work slowly integrating a solid, defined beat."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=deutsche_amerikanische_freundschaft|title=DEUTSCHE AMERIKANISCHE FREUNDSCHAFT|publisher=[[Trouser Press]]|first1=Steven|last1=Grant|first2=Ira|last2=Robbins|accessdate=2 March 2014}}</ref> [[Simon Reynolds]], in ''[[Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978–1984]]'', describes it as "brilliant and sinister".<ref>{{cite book
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Die Kleinen und die Bösen (The Small and the Bad) is the second album by Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft. It was the first album ever released on Mute Records.

Side A and the first track of side B are studio recordings produced by Conny Plank. The remainder of side B is a live recording from the Electric Ballroom, Camden Town, London.

Personnel

For this album, the band was Gabi Delgado-López, Robert Görl, Chrislo Haas, Michael Kemner and Wolfgang Spelmans. Haas, Kemner and Spelmans left before D.A.F.'s breakthrough follow-up album, Alles Ist Gut.[1]

Reception

Despite the album's low sales, The Allmusic Guide to Electronica notes its influence: "it helped not merely in establishing the group's cachet, but the label's and, in turn, the whole genre of experimental electronic music in the '80s and beyond."[2] Trouser Press notes the band's movement from industrial noise toward modern dance: "Material is more polished, with anarchic synthesizer work slowly integrating a solid, defined beat."[3] Simon Reynolds, in Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978–1984, describes it as "brilliant and sinister".[4]

Track listing

Side A:

  1. Osten Währt Am Längsten 5:44
  2. Essen Dann Schlafen 1:05
  3. Co Co Pino 3:25
  4. Kinderfunk 3:02
  5. Nachtarbeit 1:53
  6. Ich Gebe Dir Ein Stück Von Mir 1:41
  7. De Panne 2:34

Side B:

  1. Gewalt 1:24
  2. Gib's Mir 1:01
  3. Auf Wiedersehen 1:59
  4. Das Ist Liebe 1:22
  5. Was Ist Eine Welle 1:15
  6. Anzufassen Und Anzufassen 1:44
  7. Volkstanz 0:47
  8. Die Lustigen Stiefel 1:50
  9. Die Kleinen Und Die Bösen 1:05
  10. Die Fesche Lola 1:41
  11. El Basilon 2:51
  12. Y La Gracia 2:05

References

  1. ^ a b Die Kleinen und die Bösen at AllMusic
  2. ^ Ned Raggett. "DAF." AllMusic Guide to Electronica: the definitive guide to electronic music, p114. Vladimir Bogdanov, ed., 2001. Backbeat Books. ISBN 0-87930-628-9.
  3. ^ Grant, Steven; Robbins, Ira. "DEUTSCHE AMERIKANISCHE FREUNDSCHAFT". Trouser Press. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
  4. ^ Reynolds, Simon (February 2006). "18: Electric Dreams: Synthpop". Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978–1984 (paperback) (US ed.). Penguin Books. ISBN 1-4295-2667-X.
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