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| Single by KMFDM | ||||
| Released | 22 May 2012 | |||
| Recorded | 2011 | |||
| Genre | Electro-industrial, Industrial Metal, future pop [1] | |||
| Label | Metropolis, [1] dependent, [2] KMFDM [3] | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Sascha Konietzko, Lucia Cifarelli | |||
| Producer(s) | KMFDM | |||
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"Amnesia" is a song by industrial band KMFDM from their album WTF?! [4] It was released as a single on 22 May 2012 in North America [1] and on 25 May 2012 in Europe. [2]
"Amnesia" has been favorably described as "highly danceable", [5] a "club buster", [6] and a "hellish groover". [7]
The cover image for the single was designed by long-time KMFDM associate Aidan "Brute!" Hughes. [1] It was initially conceived by band leader Sascha Konietzko, and is inspired by the Edvard Munch painting The Scream . [4]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Remixer | Length |
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| 1. | "Amnesia (Käpt'n K. Mix)" | Sascha Konietzko, Lucia Cifarelli | Sascha Konietzko | 5:47 |
| 2. | "Amnesia (Album Mix)" | Konietzko, Cifarelli | 5:01 | |
| 3. | "Krank (Morlocks Mix)" | Konietzko | Morlocks | 5:26 |
| 4. | "Come On – Go Off (Rotersand Mix)" | Konietzko | Rotersand | 4:40 |
| 5. | "I ❤ You" | Konietzko | 3:53 | |
| Total length: | 24:47 | |||
Tim Skold is a Swedish musician and record producer, who in addition to producing solo work, has also collaborated with multiple musical groups including Shotgun Messiah, KMFDM, Marilyn Manson and Motionless in White.
KMFDM is a German industrial band from Hamburg led by Sascha Konietzko, who founded the band in 1984 as a performance art project.
William Frederick Rieflin was an American musician. Rieflin came to prominence in the 1990s mainly for his work as a drummer with groups such as Ministry, the Revolting Cocks, Lard, KMFDM, Pigface, Swans, Chris Connelly, and Nine Inch Nails. He worked regularly with R.E.M. following the retirement of Bill Berry in 1997. He was a member of King Crimson from 2013 until his death in 2020.
Nihil is the eighth studio album by German industrial band KMFDM, released on 4 April 1995 by Wax Trax! Records. The album marked the return of former band member Raymond Watts and the first appearance of journeyman drummer Bill Rieflin, and was mostly written by frontman Sascha Konietzko.
Money is the sixth studio album by German industrial band KMFDM, released in February 1992 by Wax Trax! Records. It was originally intended to be titled Apart, with each of the two core members, Sascha Konietzko and En Esch, recording half an album and combining their work. The album ended up using only Konietzko's half, along with additional songs. It received mixed reviews, but spawned a number of club hits. It went out of print in the late 1990s and was re-released in 2006.
What Do You Know, Deutschland? is the second studio album by German industrial band KMFDM, released in December 1986 by Z and Skysaw Records.
Adios is the eleventh studio album released by German industrial band KMFDM. The album was originally conceived as the group's parting shot to its longtime record label, Wax Trax! Records, but it ended up also signaling the break-up of KMFDM itself until the band reformed in 2002. Recorded in Seattle, Washington, this was the last album to feature En Esch and Günter Schulz, who both went on to form Slick Idiot. Following the break-up, founding member Sascha Konietzko created the band MDFMK, before reforming KMFDM in 2002 without Esch or Schulz.
Angst is the seventh studio album by German industrial band KMFDM, released on 13 October 1993 by Wax Trax! Records.
The tenth studio album by German industrial band KMFDM, titled with a set of five unpronounceable, non-alphabetic symbols and commonly known as Symbols, was released on 23 September 1997 by Wax Trax! Records.
Xtort is the ninth studio album by German industrial band KMFDM, released on 25 June 1996 by Wax Trax! Records. It was recorded from the end of 1995 through early 1996, shortly after the death of Wax Trax! co-founder and band friend Jim Nash. Xtort features a variety of guest artists from the industrial music scene and studio musicians from other genres, but includes limited participation from core member En Esch.
Hau Ruck is the fourteenth album by industrial rock band KMFDM, released by Metropolis Records on September 13, 2005. It was recorded in Seattle, Washington.
"Juke Joint Jezebel" is a song by industrial rock group KMFDM from their 1995 album Nihil. It is KMFDM's most widely known song to date, with around three million copies of the song sold across various releases.
"Kickin' Ass" is a song by industrial rock group KMFDM from their 1986 album What Do You Know, Deutschland?. All songs on the single are also on the 1991 and 2006 releases of the album. All tracks were recorded at Zitty Zound in Hamburg, Germany.
Blitz is German industrial rock group KMFDM's sixteenth studio album, released on March 24, 2009, on KMFDM Records and Metropolis Records. It also marks the first use of five letter song titles and a five letter album title since WWIII. The album charted after its release, as did the song "People of the Lie". Blitz had songs written in three different languages, and was moderately well received by critics. Most of its songs were remixed for the band's next release, Krieg.
Krieg is a 2010 remix album by industrial rock band KMFDM containing remixes of songs from their 2009 album Blitz. Krieg was released exclusively on the band's own label, KMFDM Records, on 5 January 2010.
WTF?! is the seventeenth studio album by German industrial band KMFDM, released on April 26, 2011, on KMFDM Records and Metropolis Records. The regular line-up of Sascha Konietzko, Lucia Cifarelli, Jules Hodgson, Andy Selway, and Steve White was joined by a handful of musicians from other industrial and alternative metal acts. The album took about twice as long as usual for the band to produce, and underwent a significant amount of modification during its recording.
"Krank" is a song by industrial rock group KMFDM, the first single from their seventeenth studio album, WTF?!. It was released in North America on March 8, 2011, on the KMFDM and Metropolis record labels, and in Europe on March 11, 2011 on the Dependent label. None of the tracks on the Krank release are on the album, as the album features a different version of Krank, and does not feature any version of Day Of Light. The single features remixes by band leader Sascha Konietzko, former band members Tim Skold and Bill Rieflin, and Sebastian Komor of Icon of Coil.
Morlocks is an alternative/industrial rock band formed in Gothenburg, Sweden in the early 1990s by J.Strauss and Н.М.Д.
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