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Prager Handgriff was founded in the 'Ruhr Area', the biggest industrial region of Germany,
at the beginning of a new decade in spring 1990. For this project, Stefan SchÄfer and Volker Rathmann
wanted to leave their unstatisfactory experiences with traditionally punk/new-wave bands behind,
so they started using samplers, synthesizers, and sequencers to bring their ideas to life.
Around August 1990 the first tape, 'Rückstand aus Vormonaten' was recorded. In 2002 Prager Handgriff had their first release in the USA called 'Neurotix'. The band started to write lyrics in English, but soon after turned back to their native language of German, mainly so their message would remain clear to the German audience they grew from.
At this point it would be more confusing than helpful to compare the music of Prager Handgriff to others. Although daily life in an industrial area influenced the band, early new-wave and German punk bands played a big part as well. Prager Handgriff attempts to translate a full spectrum of influences into music without having usual clichees. The style of music is left to the listeners and their imaginative power...
15 years Der Prager Handgriff: that means 15 years strong EBM and clear statements against political and social miscircumstances, against facism and right energy. With their steady political engagement, the actual references to the political occurences, their strong lyrical expressing ability combined with pushing Electro-beats and catchy melodies, Prager Handgriff take a unique place in the field of the heavy steelclass. Today they are one of the most important german Electro-acts. The new double-CD „Handarbeiten“ presents new exclusive tracks of the band and the best tracks of their career – all completely new recorded and interpretated – for a spezial fanprice and in a nice DigiPac-artworc.
The exclusive new track „Arbeit, Sport und Spiel“ is great food for the hungry electronic dancefloors with potential for the next big scene hit. And with the new title „Alles Und Gar Nichts“ the band surprises and convinces with the first lovesong of their career.
Through the reproduction and interpretation of their classics the tracks can be totally new discovered as if they were new recordings. Under the recordings there are many EBM-classics like „Deutschland“, „Elektrostahl“, „Schindluder“, „Frontal“ oder „Zukunftsmusik“ (a.o.).
For the first time in their band career one can also hear female voices on some of the Prager Handgriff tracks! Convincing.
„Handarbeiten“ confirms superiorly the unique status of the band in the huge hard electronic field.
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