Hau Ruck is the fourteenth album

Album

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 by KMFDM

KMFDM

KMFDM is an industrial band led by German multi-instrumentalist Sascha Konietzko, who founded the group in 1984 as a performance art project...

, released by Metropolis Records

Metropolis Records

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 on September 13, 2005. It was recorded in Seattle, Washington

Seattle, Washington

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The album had originally been titled FUBAR

FUBAR

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, in reference to the military acronym standing for "Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition/Repair". However, in June 2005 the band announced they were abandoning that title, and on July 21, 2005, they announced the new title would be Hau Ruck, German for "heave-ho". Hau Ruck is the first KMFDM album without a five-letter word title since 1988's Don't Blow Your Top. Likewise, none of the song titles are five-letter words.

According to Sascha Konietzko

Sascha Konietzko

Sascha Konietzko , also known as Sascha K and Käpt'n K, is a German musician and producer. He is the founder, frontman, and "anchor" of industrial rock band KMFDM. Konietzko jokingly purports himself to be the father of industrial rock...

, Hau Ruck was created entirely using analog equipment.

Many songs from Hau Ruck were remixed for Ruck Zuck

Ruck Zuck

Ruck Zuck is a remix album by KMFDM, featuring remixed tracks from their previous full-length release, Hau Ruck.-Track listing:-References:*...

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Track listing

Personnel

• Lucia Cifarelli
  Lucia Cifarelli
  Lucia Cifarelli is currently a vocalist and occasional keyboardist for industrial music group KMFDM...
  
   – vocals
• Jules Hodgson
  Jules Hodgson
  Jules Hodgson, also credited as Joolz or J. Hogstorm, is the guitarist for KMFDM, an industrial band, and The Spittin' Cobras . He is a former member of PIG and Lodestar. In 2006, Hodgson married pin-up model Go-go Amy and divorced in 2008. Jules now resides in Seattle, Washington...
  
   – guitar
  Guitar
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  , bass
  Bass guitar
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  , programming
  Synthesizer
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  , engineering
  Audio engineering
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• Sascha Konietzko
  Sascha Konietzko
  Sascha Konietzko , also known as Sascha K and Käpt'n K, is a German musician and producer. He is the founder, frontman, and "anchor" of industrial rock band KMFDM. Konietzko jokingly purports himself to be the father of industrial rock...
  
   – vocals, analogue synthesizers
  Analog signal
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  , sequencers
  Music sequencer
  The music sequencer is a device or computer software to record, edit, play back the music, by handling note and performance information in several forms, typically :...
  
  , engineering
• Andy Selway
  Andy Selway
  KMFDM drummer Andy Selway spent his early years in Luton, England, but moved to Kirton near Felixstowe in Suffolk where he remained until his early 20s...
  
   – drums
  Drum kit
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  , programming
• Steve White
  Steve White (guitarist)
  Steve White is an English guitarist for KMFDM, first joining the band in 2002 for the Sturm & Drang Tour, and later appearing on several live albums/DVDs and the studio albums Hau Ruck, Tohuvabohu and Blitz . Previously he was a member of PIG, the project of fellow KMFDM contributor Raymond Watts....
  
   – guitar, programming
• Mina Stolle – trumpet
  Trumpet
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  (11)

External links

• KMFDM DØTKØM Hau Ruck lyrics at the official KMFDM website