Bruderschaft is an electronic music artist's collective led by New York City

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

-based DJ Rexx Arkana. Conceived as a charity project focused on cancer research and treatment in the wake of Arkana's father's death from the disease, Bruderschaft brought together a large number of artists from the underground electronic music scene for the production of the band's first single, "Forever": the collaboration of Arkana (lyrics), Ronan Harris

Ronan Harris

Ronan Harris is a member of the act VNV Nation, along with Mark Jackson. For live shows the band are joined by 2 keyboard players. Ronan is credited with the songwriting, production, lyrical, and vocal aspects of the band's music...

 (VNV Nation

VNV Nation

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-vocals), Sebastian Komor

Sebastian Komor

Sebastian R. Komor is a Polish born, Norwegian raised EBM/Industrial musician, best known for his collaborative work in Icon of Coil and Zombie Girl...

 (Icon of Coil

Icon of Coil

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-programming/production), Joakim Montelius (Covenant

Covenant (band)

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-samples/loops) and Stephan Groth

Stephan Groth

Stephan Groth is the man behind Apoptygma Berzerk, an electronic dance music act that plays in styles such as synthpop, ebm, and futurepop...

 (Apoptygma Berzerk

Apoptygma Berzerk

Apoptygma Berzerk is a Norwegian musical group. They have achieved success with a brand of synthpop, and ballads backed with electronic rhythms, commonly known within the scene and referring to themselves as "futurepop". Apop has won awards and top-10 spots in Germany and Scandinavia...

-backing vocals).

Released by RazorBurn Records, in European partnership with Alfa-Matrix in 2003, the "Forever" EP (also available in a 2-Disc Limited Edition) featured a large list of remixers, including Front 242

Front 242

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, Camouflage

Camouflage (band)

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, Feindflug

Feindflug

' , is a controversial German electro-industrial band founded in 1995. Translated, the name means "attack-raid" or literally "foe-flight" ; it corresponds in military use to the French/English word "sortie".- Style and themes :...

, Melotron

Melotron

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, The Retrosic

The Retrosic

-History:The Retrosic project was born in April 2001 with the release of the debut Prophecy. The Retrosic's second release, Messa da Requiem, reached the top of the Deutsche Alternative Charts in 2002, and was named "Album of the Year" by the Dutch Alternative Charts.The Retrosic's third album God...

, Negative Format

Negative Format

Negative Format is the one-man EBM/trance band of Alex Matheu, started in 1996. For live performances, the band includes Rashree and Brian Matson....

, Angels & Agony, Colony 5

Colony 5

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, Lights of Euphoria

Lights of Euphoria

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, Davantage, Grendel

Grendel (band)

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, Punto Omega, [:SITD:

SITD

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].

In keeping with the founding concept behind the project, all net profits from the global sales of the CD were augmented by the proceeds of local release parties in cities around the world, raising nearly $50,000 for charity.

In 2005, Bruderschaft was reputedly working on "Return", the band's second release which did not materialize. On the title track, the second incarnation of the group was to feature the programming talents of returning contributor Sebastian Komor, newcomer Johann Sebastian (State of the Union

State Of The Union

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-composer); new vocalist Tom Shear

Tom Shear

Tom Shear is an American musician and music producer, and is the sole member of the electronic act Assemblage 23.He was born on November 12, 1971 in State College, Pennsylvania, where he lived until he was about age six. After that, he lived in New Jersey for two years and then in New Hampshire for...

 (Assemblage 23

Assemblage 23

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); and lyricist Rexx Arkana (FGFC820).

A second new original from the band, "Trigger," features music written by Arkana and "Forever" remixer/FGFC820 member Dräcos and System Syn

System Syn

-Members:*Clint Carney performs all studio music, vocals and lyrics. Aside from System Syn, he is the front man for the band Fake and plays keyboard and backing vocals for Imperative Reaction and God Module...

founder/vocalist Clint Carney. On January 21, 2009, it was revealed that the song would be released as part of an EP.

The band performed at the 2011 Kinetik Festival with unreleased material. As of May 30, 2011, no further information on the album has been released.

External links

• Alfa Matrix label that released Bruderschaft worldwide