Industrial Heroes DIE KRUPPS Return With A Brand New Single Covering Eclectic Electronic Icons SPARKS!
DIE KRUPPS has been one of the most influential pioneers of EBM and industrial metal since their inception in the vibrant music scene of Düsseldorf, Germany – the birthplace of both Kraftwerk and Neu!. Founded in 1980 by Jürgen Engler, the group had a massive impact on bands such as Depeche Mode, Ministry and even Detroit’s early techno innovators. Just a year before Engler kicked off his DIE KRUPPS career, two Los Angeles-born brothers released the disco-inspired psychedelic pop masterpiece “The Number One Song In Heaven,” a collaboration with the widely celebrated “father of disco,” Giorgio Moroder, who’s pumping sequencer production of Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love” was highly influential on teenage Engler. The song became a Top 20 hit in the UK, and helped encourage the brothers to transplant themselves to British soil 4 years later. Those brothers, of course, were Ron and Russell Mael and their electronic project was SPARKS. Now, some 40 years later, DIE KRUPPS have revisited SPARKS’ seminal track, adding their own unique production that turns the original’s disco beat groove into a hyperdriven blast of EBM ecstasy.
Engler had this to say about the track, “I loved SPARKS from the first time I heard ‘This Town Ain’t Big Enough For Both Of Us,’ same with Gorgio Moroder’s production of ‘I Feel Love’! Our new single is a perfect symbiosis of all forces combined. I can’t get enough of the ‘Number One Song In Heaven,’ written of course by the mightiest hand! Featuring Lis Van den Akker as angelic vocalist!”
Stream the song:https://orcd.co/die_krupps_the_number_one_song_in_heaven
Keep an eye out for the forthcoming full-length album where Engler’s DIE KRUPPS revisits even more of his influences and favorites – coming in 2021!
