Because it makes it easier to misbehave and get all nerdy.

Want it? Take a look here: http://straftanz.de/?page_id=446 It’s free by the way. Got a weird app-action-video as well? Tell us!

What a stupid concept. We do look back today with some help of the commrades from the Verdamniss E-Zine from France. These heroes of video creation recorded some most amazing live footage of us and created this little cut from the magnificent Dark Castle Festival. We want you to take a look. This is the best live footage that was recorded for us so far. Take a look. Especially at that outstanding audience. Obey.

We would like to expressivly thank Yannick for booking us, Nicolas, Helyzium, Future, Florent, Charlotte, Bertrand and everyone else that should be mentioned here for making that evening what it was. Especially we’d like to thank the Verdamniss crew for this great video.

Love, Rainbows, Unicorns,

-jl-

Commrades!

Hereby I declare this weekend of summer darkness a major success. We burned the dancefloor, even though it was early in the morning. We tested our new track “Die neue F-Klasse” and were pleased to see that it works. We were able to integrate a world class guitarist to our set, I had three cans of beer right on stage and spilt a fourth into the audience. I went swimming in a cool little hotel pool after the Kindervorstellung and had some weird types of most interesting belgian beer. Tripel Karmeliet and Delirium Tremens are truly some deliciously vicious brews.
I saw people burning flyers. I saw them burning money. I finally saw them burning their socks, and I am not even joking. With the help of Foamy we annoyed the crap out people by blip sequencing austrian and german war songs. We had fun looking at the amazingly efficient moves of Amduscias keyboarder, had fun before and during the Project Pitchfork gig and found out that four letter words are funny to play with.

Take a look at this video, take a look at the pictures and you’ll get the idea.

Baum, oida!

-jl-, Straftanz ZK

Genossen, unsere Darbietung im Saint findet nicht statt. Wir kennen die genauen Umstände nicht, aber es schien der Besitzer der Örtlichkeit, nicht aber der Veranstalter der Örtlichkeit zu sein der es sich plötzlich anders überlegte. Ein Ausweichtermin in einer anderen Örtlichkeit wird gerade gesucht.

Geschichte wird verbrannt, es geht vorran.

 Comrades, tonight we are proud to present you the Straftanz Sample Launcher for iPhone and iPod touch. This app was made by the wonderful Ernst Brecht with a little help from my humble self. Apple fanbois, start your devices, download that thing and annoy everyone. It’s for free.

We did it because we can, but we did it with love.

-jl-, straftanz ZK.

We just finished the emergency meeting we announced on Facebook yesterday.  Although we tried hard to find a solution for some ongoing issues within our project, we regrettably need to announce changes in our staff. Tonight we declare that Straftanz will distance itself from its founding member and producer, known as “the Cyberdominator” due to insurmountable artistic differences. In contrast to the Cyberdominator, the remaining Straftanz ZK firmly believes, that the scope of our artistic expression is not solely bound to “industrial streetfighting dance”, but to a broader set of styles and techniques. When we founded this project, we claimed our focus to be on dance music in general, not on some rather narrow defined fraction of it. Also we could not find a solution to some ongoing monetary disputes.

This change will not affect the ongoing production and will definitely not affect the announced live performances in the near future. We are already in negotiations regarding a successor.

We believe, that this today’s hard decision, was right and necessary for the continuing development of this project. In fact we believe that this step will finally accelerate the work on our planned album “Mainstream, Sellout, Overground”.

Despite all differences, we would like to thank the Cyberdominator for his work up to this point. We were never friends, but let’s stay polite.

Get lost,

k-x, -jl-, j-ing. Straftanz ZK

 Am Freitag, dem sechsten August 2010 wird Straftanz im Oberhausener SAINT spielen. Das SAINT ist ein großartiger Club, ist aber als solcher unterpräsentiert. Zu lange haben intellektuelle Schwätzer dort Partys sterben sehen. Zu lange wurden die Sets großer DJs, die sich dort an undankbaren Sonntagen versuchten, zerredet und kaputt diskutiert. Zu oft haben die Besserwisser es dort nicht besser gewusst. Da wurde viel geredet aber nicht genug getanzt. Da wurde versucht den Schleimscheißern, die sich seit 1998 keine Platte mehr gekauft haben, Moderne zu vermitteln. Da vergammelten die Revolutionäre von 1989 in ihrem Sud, denn die Kinder dieser Jahrgänge wurden, so gut es geht, ausgeschlossen. Damit ist jetzt Schluss. Zusammen mit den Genossen von Noisuf-X wollen wir zeigen, dass ein anderer Club möglich ist.

Entweder sind wir ein Teil des Problems, oder  ein Teil der Lösung. Dazwischen ist nichts. Die Scheiße ist seit Dekaden und Generationen von allen Seiten untersucht und begutachtet worden. Wir wollen das beenden. Am sechsten August findet eine Tanzveranstaltung statt. Wer es versteht, was es bedeutet einen Tanzboden nicht zu bespielen sondern zu verbrennen, der wird dort sein. Bringt sie mit, die Müden, die Jungen, die Alten und alle die es satt haben. Habt Mut zu tanzen! Habt Mut zu siegen! Denn für alles Reaktionäre gilt, dass es nicht fällt, wenn man es nicht niederschlägt.

-jl-, straftanz ZK.

We love the Club and as Club Lovers, we aren’t that much into large festivals. With one exception: Summer Darkness. It was our place of birth, the people of the Netherlands are one of our favourite partycrowds and the dense city of Utrecht a wonderful place to visit. We are proud to announce our appearance at this year’s Summer Darkness to deliver a one and only exclusive show full of turns, twists and some new glowing bits and pieces from our upcomming Album “Mainstream Sellout Overground”. Be prepared. This time we are going to get serious.

Dearest Victims,

while Straftanz is progressing again towards its second Album Release, we are happy to get a chance to give you another taste of what we are working at soon. At the 10th of July we are going to show of with an assorted blend of classic streetfight-dance in combination with never performed before post-gothic-modernism from our laboratory. Also this is going to be our first appearance ever in France. We are looking forward to visit a legendary city, to meet its sinister party crowd and to finally burn dancefloors on French soil. Paris! We want you to get mad!

Dark Castle Festival
Paris, 10.07.2010
Le Divan Du Monde

Before you continue reading, please open this and then that in the background for the proper sound-scape. Believe me, we need to be in the mood for this. Got it? Great. You should feel like you need a good glas of whiskey now. Maybe a good cigar as well. Thats what we need.

There are times when a gentlemen needs to admit that he cannot continue as he did. That his pursuit is pointless, that any more haste would just lead to disaster. I am talking about the bittersweet moment when a man needs to look at his limitations. We at Straftanz had to. This is one of these nights to reconsider. One of these nights when we wish to forget, but can’t.

Our aim was to get our second album done until March the 23rd, before our crew needs to divide for several weeks to return to other duty. From the beginning it was not meant to be a release deadline, but more an internal one, to keep us on track. Since Monday we felt that goal we set to be in jeopardy and since tonight we know, that we can not achieve the production we want for us and more important, the production you deserve, until that given date. We decided to delay and to use this time to review our concept, to give some more touches to things we considered to be done. We do not desire to get that Album just done. We want it to be surprising, splendid, amazing and most spiffing. When the melancholy of this night has turned into the bright and colorful headache of tomorrow we will be ready. And we will still be good for a surprise.

-jl-, straftanz ZK.