GANZHEIT
"Astonishing Industrial EBM. Pure classic synth stuff!"
Country:
UK
Genre:
Electronic
Style:
Synth-Pop, EBM, Electro
Members:
Paul Cullivan & Paul Pugh
VIDEO:
"Traitor"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2hcdFHucxw
BRAINS TO THE WALL (12") (1986)/ HAMMER (12") (1987)
Credits (tracks 01-03):
Engineer - Shan Hira (ex-Stockholm Monsters, see: http://saltyka.blogspot.com/2009/05/stockholm-monsters.html)
Guitar - Jelly-Roll-Ricketts
Written-By, Producer - Ganzheit
Notes:
Tracks 01-03: Brains To The Wall EP
This E.P. contains three songs recorded in the North of England, Summer 1986.
Tracks 04-05: Hammer Ep
Tracklist:
01 Bolt It Down (Why Work?)
02 Independence
03 Harmony
04 Traitor!
05 Choke On It
06 Preface And Hostilities (from "Discreet Campaigns" (Compilation 1985)
07 Marvellous (from "The Third Mind" Compilation 1990)
Link to download:
http://rapidshare.com/files/287934360/ganzh.rar
"Raw, energetic EBM. Think Skinny Puppy, but faster. Nice !"
"Contains "Traitor", a strange and beautiful track with industrial rhythms and female vocals."
This brilliant band has only 7 songs ever released -to me all classics.
The outstanding richness of Ganzheit's musical world assimilates the musical intentions of such bands like Soft Cell, Cabaret Voltaire, Wire, A Split Second, Front 242, Portion Control to create something perfectly beautiful from all of this.
These rich instrumented, impulsive songs rolling beautifully to make permanent surprise with their versatility. They are never boring, can't stop to listening to them!
They are undoubtedly geniuses to rank among synth pop's greatest bands. (saltyka)
Biography:
Ganzheit were Paul Cullivan & Paul Pugh.
“Years ahead of their time, this pioneering hard anarcho-electro band from the late 80s unfortunately split before their mini album, “Dynamite!” could be released. “Dynamite!” was to include superior remixes of the two singles and the unreleased third single, ‘Marvellous”, which is probably the best track to have been recorded during the acid house period (a mix of it can be found on the Third Mind Records sampler). This unique album, originally thwarted by record company hiccups, may soon see a limited-issue release on CD.” (Greatbeast)
They released two singles, “Hammer” & “Brains to the Wall” both sounding like a proto acid house meets electronic body music. Ish. A variation of “Choke on It” from the ‘Hammer’ 12” appeared as “Preface to Hostilities” on the ‘Discreet Campaigns’ cassette in 1985, which sounds like the aforementioned acid house with Cosey Fanni Tutti’s distinct trumpet playing
(http://www.last.fm/music/Ganzheit)
UPDATED (01.2010)
Ganzheit added:
"GANZHEIT were originally formed in Bedfordshire, England in 1984. All
their recorded output was selected from songs created during 1985-86
and the group ceased operations in 1991. Had they not split, they would
have beat the Chemical Brothers to their block rockin' beats by some
half a decade. In addition to founder members Pugh and Cullivan, Paul
Ricketts and David Greeves provided guitars, flute and percussion. The
ladies who warbled were Michelle Parker ('Independence') and Fiona
Donnelly ('Traitor!'). An augmented CD version of 'Dynamite' will find
its way out sometime this year, I hope."
ALBUMS:
Brains to the Wall (EP 1986)
Hammer (Ep 1987)
Dynamite! (1990, still unreleased)
!!!NEWS!!!
The good news is that the long awited limited edition resissue CD will come out soon!
"Ganzheit originally intended to release a mini-LP in 1990 ("Dynamite!"), which had superior remixes of the singles and unreleased stuff. However, the record company lost its distribution deal. This album will hopefully come out some time later this year on CD."
Wow! I just hope won't be any delay!
I have to ask Paul Cullivan -hope will see this- to send us at least a biography of the band, because there is hardly anything to find about Ganzheit.
Country:
UK
Genre:
Electronic
Style:
Synth-Pop, EBM, Electro
Members:
Paul Cullivan & Paul Pugh
VIDEO:
"Traitor"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2hcdFHucxw
BRAINS TO THE WALL (12") (1986)/ HAMMER (12") (1987)
Credits (tracks 01-03):
Engineer - Shan Hira (ex-Stockholm Monsters, see: http://saltyka.blogspot.com/2009/05/stockholm-monsters.html)
Guitar - Jelly-Roll-Ricketts
Written-By, Producer - Ganzheit
Notes:
Tracks 01-03: Brains To The Wall EP
This E.P. contains three songs recorded in the North of England, Summer 1986.
Tracks 04-05: Hammer Ep
Tracklist:
01 Bolt It Down (Why Work?)
02 Independence
03 Harmony
04 Traitor!
05 Choke On It
06 Preface And Hostilities (from "Discreet Campaigns" (Compilation 1985)
07 Marvellous (from "The Third Mind" Compilation 1990)
Link to download:
http://rapidshare.com/files/287934360/ganzh.rar
"Raw, energetic EBM. Think Skinny Puppy, but faster. Nice !"
"Contains "Traitor", a strange and beautiful track with industrial rhythms and female vocals."
This brilliant band has only 7 songs ever released -to me all classics.
The outstanding richness of Ganzheit's musical world assimilates the musical intentions of such bands like Soft Cell, Cabaret Voltaire, Wire, A Split Second, Front 242, Portion Control to create something perfectly beautiful from all of this.
These rich instrumented, impulsive songs rolling beautifully to make permanent surprise with their versatility. They are never boring, can't stop to listening to them!
They are undoubtedly geniuses to rank among synth pop's greatest bands. (saltyka)
Biography:
Ganzheit were Paul Cullivan & Paul Pugh.
“Years ahead of their time, this pioneering hard anarcho-electro band from the late 80s unfortunately split before their mini album, “Dynamite!” could be released. “Dynamite!” was to include superior remixes of the two singles and the unreleased third single, ‘Marvellous”, which is probably the best track to have been recorded during the acid house period (a mix of it can be found on the Third Mind Records sampler). This unique album, originally thwarted by record company hiccups, may soon see a limited-issue release on CD.” (Greatbeast)
They released two singles, “Hammer” & “Brains to the Wall” both sounding like a proto acid house meets electronic body music. Ish. A variation of “Choke on It” from the ‘Hammer’ 12” appeared as “Preface to Hostilities” on the ‘Discreet Campaigns’ cassette in 1985, which sounds like the aforementioned acid house with Cosey Fanni Tutti’s distinct trumpet playing
(http://www.last.fm/music/Ganzheit)
UPDATED (01.2010)
Ganzheit added:
"GANZHEIT were originally formed in Bedfordshire, England in 1984. All
their recorded output was selected from songs created during 1985-86
and the group ceased operations in 1991. Had they not split, they would
have beat the Chemical Brothers to their block rockin' beats by some
half a decade. In addition to founder members Pugh and Cullivan, Paul
Ricketts and David Greeves provided guitars, flute and percussion. The
ladies who warbled were Michelle Parker ('Independence') and Fiona
Donnelly ('Traitor!'). An augmented CD version of 'Dynamite' will find
its way out sometime this year, I hope."
ALBUMS:
Brains to the Wall (EP 1986)
Hammer (Ep 1987)
Dynamite! (1990, still unreleased)
!!!NEWS!!!
The good news is that the long awited limited edition resissue CD will come out soon!
"Ganzheit originally intended to release a mini-LP in 1990 ("Dynamite!"), which had superior remixes of the singles and unreleased stuff. However, the record company lost its distribution deal. This album will hopefully come out some time later this year on CD."
Wow! I just hope won't be any delay!
I have to ask Paul Cullivan -hope will see this- to send us at least a biography of the band, because there is hardly anything to find about Ganzheit.
posted by saltyka at 7:40 PM
4 Comments:
GANZHEIT were originally formed in Bedfordshire, England in 1984. All their recorded output was selected from songs created during 1985-86 and the group ceased operations in 1991. Had they not split, they would have beat the Chemical Brothers to their block rockin' beats by some half a decade. In addition to founder members Pugh and Cullivan, Paul Ricketts and David Greeves provided guitars, flute and percussion. The ladies who warbled were Michelle Parker ('Independence') and Fiona Donnelly ('Traitor!'). An augmented CD version of 'Dynamite' will find its way out sometime this year, I hope.
Hi Ganzheit thank you for the info!
Please drop me a line when the CD is out. I hope my favo "Harmony" will be on it:)
Cheers
salty (saltyka@freemail.hu)
I'm Paul "Jelly Roll" Ricketts. I've just found this webpage and I'm amazed but not totally surprised. I knew at the time, as well as the rest of the 'collective', that Ganzheit were ahead of our time. This was down to Paul Cullivan and Paul Pugh's singular vision.
Before i get swamped in nostalgia I would like to get in contact with Paul C 'Hymie' and Paul P 'Tel(ford)'. So if you're reading this contact me via uptheartscomedy@hotmail.co.uk
Good GOD I loved all these tracks. Brings back memories of DJing in college in CA, USA. Dig it; they still sound amazing. Agree they'd have beaten the Chems to the punch.
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