Disco Rigido
Studio album by
Die Warzau
ReleasedOctober 3, 1989 (1989-10-03)[1][2]
Studio
Various
    • Chicago Trax
    • (Chicago, IL)
    • River North
    • (Chicago, IL)
Genre
Length40:25
LabelFiction/PolyGram
Producer
Die Warzau chronology
Disco Rigido
(1989)		 Big Electric Metal Bass Face
(1991)
Singles from Disco Rigido
  1. "Land of the Free"
    Released: 1989
  2. "Welcome to America"
    Released: 1989
  3. "I've Got to Make Sense"
    Released: 1989
  4. "Bodybag"/"Shake Down"
    Released: 1990
  5. "Strike to the Body"
    Released: 1990

Disco Rigido is the debut studio album of Die Warzau, released on October 3, 1989 by Fiction and PolyGram.[3][4][5][6][7] Van Christie claimed that the band wanted to integrate music that breaks racial barriers into compositions their audience could listen to us as much as dance.[8][9][10]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[11]

AllMusic gave Disco Rigido a negative mark of two out of five possible stars.[11] More positive in their critique of the album was Trouser Press, who identified Die Warzau's strength for combining rhythm and samples and claimed that "the group's political agenda never gets in the way of the fun."[12] The album made CMJ's "Jackpot" picks in October 1989, claiming that "Die Warzau could be poised to fill the void on dancefloors" left behind after fellow Chicagoan Al Jourgenson "turned in his industrial-strength samplers and synth grooves for a sadomasochistic metal guitar crunch."[13]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Van Christie and Jim Marcus

Other Side
No.TitleLength
1."Welcome to America"4:56
2."Man Is Meat"5:35
3."Jack Hammer"5:14
4."Bodybag"4:29
5."Sexus"1:03
This Side
No.TitleLength
1."Strike to the Body"3:49
2."I've Got to Make Sense"5:10
3."National Security"1:15
4."Shake Down"4:37
5."Tear It Down"4:17
CD track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Welcome to America"4:56
2."Man Is Meat"5:35
3."Jack Hammer"5:14
4."Bodybag"4:29
5."Sexus"1:03
6."Money After All"7:05
7."Strike to the Body"3:49
8."I've Got to Make Sense"5:10
9."National Security"1:15
10."Shake Down"4:37
11."Tear It Down"4:17
12."Bodybag" (Dub Edit)3:59
Bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
13."Free Radio Africa"3:03
14."Y Tagata en Situ"5:40
15."Cross Burning Part Two"2:24
16."Land of the Free"5:04

Personnel

Adapted from the Disco Rigido liner notes.[14]

Die Warzau

Additional performers

Production and design

Release history

Region Date Label Format Catalog
United States 1989 PolyGram CD, CS, LP 841 251
Fiction
Europe CD, LP FIX 15, 839 673
Fiction/Polydor CS

References

  1. ↑ Barnhart, Becky (1995). "Schwann Spectrum". Schwann Spectrum. Stereophile, Incorporated. 7 (1): 39. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
  2. ↑ Barnhart, Becky (1996). "Schwann Spectrum". Schwann Spectrum. Stereophile, Incorporated. Winter 1996–1997: 65. ISBN 9781575980386. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
  3. ↑ Huey, Steve. "Die Warzau > Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
  4. ↑ "Other Current Releases". Spin. SPIN Media LLC. 6 (4): 79. July 1990. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
  5. ↑ Christian, Chris (July 15, 1995). "Interview With Die Warzau at Club Soda in Kalamazoo, MI". Sonic Boom. 3 (5). Retrieved August 4, 2020.
  6. ↑ Górnisiewicz, Katarzyna NINa (December 24, 2005). "Die Warzau – Interview". Fabryka Industrial Rock & Metal Encyclopedia. Fabryka Music Magazine. Retrieved August 2, 2020.
  7. ↑ Yücel, Ilker (May 1, 2012). "Jim Marcus InterView: Go, Going, Gone, Go Fight!". ReGen. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
  8. ↑ "Die Warzau". Chicago Tribune. Tribune Publishing. July 6, 1990. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
  9. ↑ Bonner, Staci (February 1990). "Music of Distinction... Driving You to Distraction". Spin. SPIN Media LLC. 5 (11): 72. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
  10. ↑ Aparicio, Nestor (January 17, 1991). "Industrial Music Building an Audience in Baltimore". The Baltimore Sun. Trif Alatzas. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
  11. 1 2 "Die Warzau: Disco Rigido > Overview". AllMusic. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
  12. ↑ Fletcher, Tony; Robbins, Ira (1991). "Die Warzau". Trouser Press. Collier Books: 191. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
  13. ↑ Byron, Scott L., ed. (6 October 1989). "Jackpot" (PDF). CMJ New Music Report. Albertson, NY: College Media, Inc. (180): 6. ISSN 0890-0795. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
  14. ↑ Disco Rigido (sleeve). Die Warzau. Willesden, London/Amsterdam, Netherlands: Fiction/PolyGram. 1989.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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