Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft DAF Gabi Delgado, Robert Görl: 2020

"In a combination of interviews with eyewitnesses, known and unknown finds from the archives and intensive search for traces on site - in the Bronx, in Sheffield or in Berlin - the six-part documentary series unfolds a captivating panorama of seething underground and unforgettable hits.

" Welcome to the Eighties "
reconstructs the then prevailing aesthetic worlds and begins where they came into conflict with one another. How punkers rebelled against hippies, synth-popper attacked macho rock, an independent, black culture against the white mainstream rebelled in the black ghetto, a new lust for commerce buried left-wing cultural criticism, a shrill party culture, heavy-headedness and critical distance defeated and pale-painted Gothic freaks opposed the solarium-tanned body cult of the 80s to a dark world of world pain and occultism. "

DAF - Verschwende Deine Jugend (Live at Wire 03)

The first thing you should know about D.A.F. is that Delgado-López’s odd phrasing isn’t a figment of my imagination. Delgado himself told an interviewer, “The singing isn’t like rock ’n’ roll or pop singing. It’s sometimes like in a Hitler speech, not a Nazi thing, but it’s in the German character, that crack! crack! crack! way of speaking.” So now we not only have the Thump! Thump! Thump! of shells exploding all over the place, we have the Crack! Crack! Crack! of rifle fire as well. This isn’t dance music, people, it’s the soundtrack to a WWII dance movie called Herzlich Willkommen Aus Klub Blitzkrieg. http://www.thevinyldistrict.com/storefront/2014/10/graded-on-a-curve-d-a-f-alles-ist-gut/