Artist description Wipeout are a fascinating live band who played more than 200 shows all over europe. The musical style ranges from bowie-pop to techno. Wipeout started to mix heavy music like industrial with disco and techno. The band continous still that style.

Music Style Techno, Industrial, Pop

Musical Influences Detroit techno, disco, Suicide, Scott Walker

Artist History Wipeout started late 1992 with Didi Bruckmayr (vocals, lyrics), Fadi Dorninger (Programming, Sampling) & Didi Neidhart (modulated guitars). In 1999 Neidhart split from Wipeout and some month later Didi Kern (electronic drums) joined the band.

Group Members Bruckmayr (vocals), Dorninger (Programming, Synths), Kern (e-drums, Programming) and Alexander Jöchtl (soundengineer)

Instruments vocals, synths (vintage), sampler, octopad, many drumboxes

Press Reviews WIPE OUT - THE STORY SO FAR...Wipe Out was found in 1992 as the result of a free-style electronic/techno jam at the end of an extatic X-Mass-Party, where they played a wild sound mixture produced with turntables, tapeloops, DATs, analogue-synthesizers, guitars and vocals.Even though the majority of the audience left the club because of the immense loundess and weird noises and sounds, they were hired for playing a show at a big local festival. Based on the effect their music had on the audience they decided to call the band WIPE OUT and played their second ever gig in front of over 700 people. After this show WIPE OUT got offers from all over Austria and started playing with bands like Consolidated, Attwenger, Disharmonic Orchestra, Scorn, Dodgy, Fetish 69 to name but a few.In 1993 Wipe Out released their first CD "COME INTO MY BIOMECHANICAL LOVEBOAT", which sold over 1000 copies in Austria without distribution in less then one year. The CD got euphoric reviews in the national music press and at the end of 1993 Wipe Out entered the year pools of several music magazines as "best austrian band" and "best austrain debut of the year". But Wipe Out was also successful in the critic's pool of the "Rot-Weiß-Rote"-Radio. Their song "Lenny" (about Elvis Presley and Jimi Hendrix coming back from their graves to kill Lenny Kravitz) won place four, the entire CD got place six in the album charts and the band was labeled fourth-best dance act.After this successful year the band started recording their second CD entitled "COUNTRY & WESTERN" and finished the work on it in early 1994. Due to mismanagement and troubles with the record label the CD was released in 1997. Instead of getting into a state of depression WIPE OUT hit the road and played shows in nearly every place in Austria and also crossed the boarders to do a two weeks tour in Germany (with british industrial-metal-heads Skin Limit Show, Ex-Pitch Shifter) and several gigs in Budapest (Hungaria) and Ljublijana (Slovenia). Even they had no actual record out WIPE OUT again entered the pole positions in the year pools of the national music magazines and confirmed their reputation as Austria's best live performing group.1995 saw the release of their genuine masterpiece "SWAMPS OF HAPPINESS". Till this day the CD has sold over 3000 copies in Austria, which is a very big ammount in terms of the independent business, specially for a little country like Austrian.At this time the average number of the WIPE OUT live audience raised up to 300 to 500 people. Often billed with no support band, but accompanied with selected DJs, WIPE OUT got realy famous for their extatic and entertaining shows which often can last over two hours if the audience „makes" it. At the end of the year WIPE OUT had finally strengthened their position as "best austrian band". Their international format was also shown at the year pool of the national independent-radio station FM4. With their song "I've Started To Read" WIPE OUT engaged place three, beaten only by Tricky and The Prodigy.Now, on their 1996 CD "SALIVA" you can hear the whole potential of WIPE OUT in full force. It's a schizophrenic journey into strange sounds and sleazy grooves. By mixing Techno, House, Dub, Industrial, Trip Hop, Ambient, Electronic Listening, Disco and Glam-Pop they produce a bizarre dancefloor full of fake sweetishness, gutter glamour, mental, psychic, physical and sexual irritations. Hybride electronic popmusic-deformations your ears won't believe, but your feet wanna dance to. Get yourself a WIPE OUT massage and taste the saliva!In 1997 Wipeout released a remix 12" with four mixes by Image 2040, Sonic Fusion, Opproductive.Having troubles with their record company CCP Wipeout had to wait until 1999 to release new material. The MCD "Wipeout" will be release 3/99 by Misrouted Records. A worldwide distributed long player will be out this summer.At the end of 1999 Dieter Kern from Fuckhead joined Wipeout on electronic percussion & as composer.

Location Linz, Upper-Austria - Austria

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