Leather Strip - Civil Disobedience - 2CD

Release Date: 11.04.08 In 1988, young angry Danish teenager Claus Larsen would ignite an electro/industrial firework that is still exploding high and loud 20 years later and across the whole world… The brutal LEAETHER STRIP machine really knows no “stop” button and has again switched back to “attack mode” loaded with the brand new double-CD “Civil Disobedience”. A new album full of hate, venom and frustration, but also a new album so true, so direct and so deep that it can be heard as a forceful call through a megaphone for revolution, action and reaction. Claus Larsen’s rise to fame-cult status is 100% the fruit of his uncompromising artistic attitude, which has always brought him where his dark soul would carry him, without ever conceding ground to compromise or any trend. Album after album, Danish EBM legend LEAETHER STRIP has constantly fueled the underground dancefloors and he will set the fire again in 2008 with monster power tracks like the instant hit “When Blood Runs Dark”, the solid “Jagtvej 69”, the punkish “Pissing On My Territory”, “The Cradle of Death” or yet “Going Nowhere”. Like he enjoys singing it, Claus Larsen also “wears black on the inside” and he this time jumps onto the street to fight the system and question the leadership. To mark these 20 years in dark blood, Claus Larsen also seized this unique anniversary opportunity to write the conceptual “one-nine-eight-two” CD, a collection of forbidden art that Claus Larsen devoted to the good old years of moogs and 808s… An electronic tribute to the magic year 1982, when he bought his first synthesizer, his beloved Moog Prodigy that radically scrambled his life for the many decades to follow, and would transform a frustrated revolted teenager hiding his homosexuality into a happy and obsessed daydreamer with a noir soul carried away by his flood of creativity and composing frenzy. The young man had found a way expressing himself… This beautiful album of pure eighties synth lines and fat bass sounds is exclusively available as bonus album in the deluxe carton box edition of the “Civil Disobedience” album. An impressive 3CD package revealing where LEAETHER STRIP comes from and where it stands today anno 2008: amongst the leaders of underground dark industrial / electronic music. Happy Birthday LEAETHER STRIP. NOTE: CD2 also features an amazing cover-version of DIE KRUPPS famous track ‘Machineries of Joy! Tracks CD1: 01 Civil disobedience 02 The Damaged people 03 When blood runs dark 04 Bite until you taste blood 05 Jagtvej 69 06 Going nowhere 07 I said I’m sorry 08 Pissing on my territory 09 It hurts doesn’t it 10 One day 11 The devils daughter CD2: 01 A whore for Jesus 02 I wear black on the inside 03 Machineries of joy 04 Snakebite 05 Soul collector 06 Could ya did ya 07 In the arms of a demon 08 One more reason 09 The cradle of death 10 Stains 11 The evil in Putin’s eyes