UAIOE is industrial rock

Industrial rock

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 group 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...

's fourth album, released in 1989. The album features reggae

Reggae

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 vocalist Morgan Adjei. When asked about the album's title, En Esch

En Esch

En Esch, a.k.a. Klaus Schandelmaier, is a contemporary musician and has been a member of the bands KMFDM, Pigface, and Slick Idiot.-History:...

 said that the band intended it to be pronounced "like a scream or something". UAIOE began a KMFDM tradition of using five-letter words as album titles, a tradition that survived until the 2005 release of Hau Ruck

Hau Ruck

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. UAIOE was recorded in Hamburg

Hamburg

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, Germany

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.

UAIOE was released in the United States on Wax Trax! Records

Wax Trax! Records

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, in Germany on Cash Beat Records, and in the United Kingdom on Deutschland Strikeback Records.

A digitally remastered reissue of UAIOE was released September 12, 2006, along with What Do You Know, Deutschland?

What Do You Know, Deutschland?

What Do You Know, Deutschland? is the second album by KMFDM, released in 1986. The album was recorded in Hamburg, Germany.Originally released by Z Records in Germany in 1986, the album was re-released, with several additional tracks, in 1987 by SkySaw Records in the United Kingdom...

and Don't Blow Your Top.

Track listing

Personnel

• 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...
  
   – bass
  Bass guitar
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  , vocals
  Singing
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  , guitar
  Guitar
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  s, synths
  Synthesizer
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  , programming
• En Esch
  En Esch
  En Esch, a.k.a. Klaus Schandelmaier, is a contemporary musician and has been a member of the bands KMFDM, Pigface, and Slick Idiot.-History:...
  
   – guitars, vocals, programming
• Rudolph Naomi – drums
  Drum kit
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• Sigrid Meyer – background vocals
• Morgan Adjei – vocals (1, 3, 4, 8, 9)

External links

• KMFDM DØTKØM UAIOE lyrics at the official KMFDM website