Tracks:
- Ad Infinitum
- Unlimited
- Bite of God
- Chronovision
- Vertex
- Necrophilia
- In the Evening of Life
- Room 342
- Submachine
- Simulator
- Delta Neurosis Activation
- Imagine
- Erotic Non Stop
- Doctor X
- Transcode
- Doctor X2
This album was originally released on Germany's Hyperium label, but has been out of print for most of the years since its 1993 release. Now available domestically on the Metropolis label with many tracks from the Tears of Eros maxi-cd.
Die Form have been making their own distinctively unsettling brand of dark electronic music for nearly two decades. Comprised of synthesist/vocalist Philippe Fichot and vocalist Eliane P, Die Form's approach to electronic music is stark, sensual, and strikingly beautiful - filled with operatic overtones, classical textures, tribalism, and the type of sensual imagery that is normally kept hidden deep within our most intimate closets.
It is the band's imagery that has garnered them the most notoriety - elements of bondage and sadomasochism continually pepper their albums, but these images are used with a strong sense of good taste. Die Form raises erotica to an art form that is not to be surpassed in the field. Sensuality, not just sexuality, is their guiding light. This approach to sensuality is evident in their music. Soothing, pulsing, filled with Gregorian-styled female vocals, yet also underpinned with a darkness that leaves the listener slightly off-balance - the music of Die Form is as beautiful as your first encounter with love, yet just as disquieting as discovering this same lover in the arms of an incubus.
Duality was the duo's Metropolis debut: a musical study of the opposites of light and dark, male and female, beauty and tragedy, acoustic and electronic, and, as always, love and passion. Die Form's exploration continues in 1999 with Histories, a 20-year synopsis of their journey up until then. Die Form returned in 2000 with their newest offering, Extremum which is to be a reflection on the absurd, the madness, and the excessivness of culture and society. Extremum represents a sound peak, a mathematical extreme, and also a look on the past century, the real and the unreal, the manipulations, the barbarity and the (de)construction of the body.
In addition to Die Form, Philippe Fichot has had many side projects over the last 20 years. Now Metropolis is pleased to announce the release of AKT, a double CD featuring many of these side-projects. Included are the rarest of the rare, as well as club hits, and unreleased material to show the continued evolution of Die Form. This release begins a series of re-mastered, re-vamped, re-releases of early Die Form albums. The re-issued material includes: Die Puppe, Some Experiences With Shock, Poupee Mechanique, Archives & Documents, Corpus Delecti, and Photogrammes.
Following up on the series of re-issues started last year, Metropolis Records is pleased to announce the re-release of the out of print Confessions and Ad Infinitum. Originally released in 1992 as an early best of, Confessions is a vibrant stream into the seedy realms of Die Form. Containing the Die Form classic "Silent Order," Confessions boasts electronic dance tracks with fast temp rhythms. The re-release contains two unreleased remixes and new versions of "Silent Order." Heralded as one of the best Die Form release of all time, the 1993 out of print Ad Infinitum has been sought by collectors, fans, and DJs alike. As part of the series of Die Form re-releases, Metropolis Records now brings this amazing achievement back to life. Ad Infinitum is a dark, suffocating climate, much like Die Form’s experimental side projects. The new re-mastered Ad Infinitum contains several tracks from Tears of Eros and a new version of "Doctor X."
Die Form will take hold of your soul, and lead you into dark rooms you never knew existed. It will lead you to a stranger's bed; it will caress your mind with such soft intensity as to leave you helplessly awaiting your lover's return. It will join the darkest corners of your mind with the most blinding light that your love has to offer.
Die Form offers more than just music. It offers a doorway into corridors you never knew were there. Be daring, and open the door.