Welle: Erdball is a group from Germany

Germany

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 often credited with being the pioneers of bitpop

Bitpop

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. The heavy use of the Commodore 64

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's SID

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 sound chip makes their sound instantly recognizable. Their sound is reminiscent of electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk

Kraftwerk

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The name literally means "Wave: Earthglobe", and in fact comes from a German radio play called "Hallo! Hier Welle Erdball!". Their logo is a rotated logo of VEB Sachsenring, which built the Trabant

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W:E has been a part of the demoscene

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 and produced several musicdisks and other productions over the years. They also gave a live performance at Breakpoint 2006.

In addition to their work as Welle: Erdball, Honey was involved in the project called 'Das Präparat' from 2003 to 2005.

Former members

• Zara - percussions (-2005)
• Soraya.vc - percussions (-2004)
• KayCat - percussions (-2002)
• Xenia G-punkt - percussions

Albums

• Frontalaufprall (Head-on impact, 1994)
• Alles ist möglich (Everything is possible, 1995)
• Tanzpalast 2000 (Dancing palace 2000, 1996)
• Der Sinn des Lebens (The meaning of life, 1998)
• Die Wunderwelt der Technik (The wonderworld of technology, 2002)
• Chaos Total (2006). The edition was limited to 10,000 pieces and was sold out prior to its release. The album peaked at rank 77 of the German Media Control Charts
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• Operation: Zeitsturm (2010)

Singles and EPs

• Nyntändo-Schock (Nyntändo
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  -Shock, 1993)
• W.O.L.F. (1995)
• Deine Augen / Arbeit Adelt! (Your eyes / Work ennobles!, 1998)
• Starfighter F-104G (2000)
• VW-Käfer & 1000 Tage (VW Käfer and 1000 days, 2001)
• Super 8 (2001)
• Nur tote Frauen sind schön (Only dead women are beautiful, 2003)
• Horizonterweiterungen (Expansion of the horizon, 2004)
• Die Wunderwelt der Technik - Vinyl (2005)
• Ich bin aus Plastik - Vinyl (2008)
• Ich bin aus Plastik - CD (With extra tracks than Vinyl) (2008)

As Das Präparat (Honey only)

• Anatomie CD (2003)
• Tanz Mit Deinem Gefuhl EP (2004)
• Unschuldsblicke (2010)

External links

• Official Welle: Erdball page
• W:E on CSDb
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• W:E on Pouët