![]() ![]() I always thought that the thing that made DI distinctive post- In Debt was the complete lack of pretence in our approach." We had been together just over three years and collectively were getting nowhere it became a shit or bust moment. We were conscious of the clone indie kid and wanted to be anything but tribal. We were listening to Blue Lines, Loveless, Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld open to possibilities. Bands that we liked were using samplers and there seemed to be no reason apart from the financial that we shouldn't look to use them. We were frustrated, ambitious and wanted to make an impression. "We had recorded the Science EP, got some slightly better press, but were still playing to the bar staff most nights in any venue that would let us play. The production style of Public Enemy and the Bomb Squad was an important influence on Disco Inferno. In a 2011 interview, Wilmott recalled of the era: Crause had purchased a Roland S-750 sampler with his savings and started programming towards the band's sound for six months. The band "hit upon a seemingly simple but ultimately world-opening idea" with the EP: to write their instruments through samplers, and unlike their contemporaries who sampled elements of music, film dialogue or other media, Disco Inferno "engaged with the whole world", using their set up to record sounds ranging from running water, the wind, whistling birds, boots, car crashes and angry voices. However, Crause soon became infatuated with the unique sounds of bands My Bloody Valentine and the Young Gods, as well as the Bomb Squad's hip hop production and sampling on the music of Public Enemy, and with the release of the Summer's Last Sound EP, released later on in 1992 by, the band's musical style changed towards sample-based electronic sounds. They were initially a post-punk band heavily influenced by bands such as Joy Division and Wire, releasing their first album Open Doors, Closed Windows in July 1991, alongside the "Entertainment" single, also from 1991, and 1992's Science EP, all of which were compiled onto the compilation album In Debt (1992). History ĭisco Inferno formed in 1989 in Essex by teenagers Ian Crause (guitars and vocals), Paul Willmott (bass), Daniel Gish (keyboards) and Rob Whatley (drums), although Gish soon quit the band to join Bark Psychosis, leaving Disco Inferno as a trio. While commercially unsuccessful during their existence, the band is considered to be a key post-rock act. Initially a trio of guitar, bass, and drums performing in an identifiable post-punk style, the band soon pioneered a dynamic use of digital sampling in addition to standard rock instruments. Post-rock, experimental rock, post-punk, indie electronicĭisco Inferno were an English experimental rock band active in the late 1980s and the 1990s. From left to right: Ian Crause, Rob Whatley and Paul Wilmott ![]()
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