WAT (album)

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WAT
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Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 8, 2003
Genre Post-industrial, electro-industrial, EBM
Length58:23 (CD version),
62:27 (2LP version)
Label Mute
Producer Iztok Turk & Laibach
Laibach chronology
The John Peel Sessions
(2002)
WAT
(2003)
Anthems
(2004)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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WAT is the sixth studio album by Slovenian music group Laibach, released September 8, 2003.

Slovenia republic in Central Europe

Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia, is a country located in southern Central Europe at a crossroads of important European cultural and trade routes. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, and the Adriatic Sea to the southwest. It covers 20,273 square kilometers (7,827 sq mi) and has a population of 2.07 million. One of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, Slovenia is a parliamentary republic and a member of the United Nations, of the European Union, and of NATO. The capital and largest city is Ljubljana.

Contents

The CD included a bonus video of "Tanz mit Laibach" and the vinyl LP and promo CD "Reject or Breed".

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The album title is an acronym for "We Are Time" as the title track reveals.

"The point of WAT is not what Laibach is, or what it wants, but what you are and where you stand". [2]

CD track listing

  1. "B Mashina" performed by Laibach / Tomi Meglič – 3:50 (83 BPM)
  2. "Tanz mit Laibach" (Laibach/Meglič/Turk/Umek) – 4:19 (126 BPM)
  3. "Du bist unser" (Laibach/Mlakar/Umek) – 5:38 (125 BPM)
  4. "Achtung!" (Laibach/Mlakar/Turk) – 4:06 (127 BPM)
  5. "Ende" (Laibach/Turk/Umek) – 3:45 (127 BPM)
  6. "Now You Will Pay" (Laibach/Turk) – 6:07 (125 BPM)
  7. "Hell: Symmetry" (Laibach/Turk) – 5:02 (115 BPM)
  8. "Das Spiel ist aus" (Laibach/Turk) – 4:21 (130 BPM)
  9. "Satanic Versus" (Laibach/Umek) – 4:52 (107 BPM)
  10. "The Great Divide" (Laibach/Turk) – 5:11 (100 BPM)
  11. "WAT" (Avsenik/Laibach/Turk/Umek) – 5:33 (97 BPM)
  12. "Anti-Semitism" (DJ Bizzy/DJ Dojaja/Laibach/Temponauta) – 5:39 (126 BPM)

LP track listing

A:

  1. "B Mashina" performed by Laibach / Tomi Meglič – 3:50
  2. "Tanz mit Laibach" (Laibach/Meglič/Turk/Umek) – 4:19
  3. "Du bist unser" (Laibach/Mlakar/Umek) – 5:38

B:

  1. "Achtung!" (Laibach/Mlakar/Turk) – 4:06
  2. "Ende" (Laibach/Turk/Umek) – 3:45
  3. "Reject or Breed" (Laibach/Turk) – 4:07
  4. "Satanic Versus" (Laibach/Umek) – 4:52

C:

  1. "Now You Will Pay" (Laibach/Turk) – 6:07
  2. "Hell: Symmetry" (Laibach/Turk) – 5:02
  3. "Das Spiel ist aus" (Laibach/Turk) – 4:21

D:

  1. "The Great Divide" (Laibach/Turk) – 5:11
  2. "WAT" (Avsenik/Laibach/Turk/Umek) – 5:33
  3. "Anti-Semitism" (DJ Bizzy/DJ Dojaja/Laibach/Temponauta) – 5:39

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References

  1. "WAT - Laibach". Allmusic.
  2. "WAT official page".