Project Pitchfork

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Hamburg-based Project Pitchfork started in 1989, primarly inspired by electronic New Wave artists such as Ultravox, The Human League, Invisible Limits, SPK and others. Another influence was the New Age movement that included acts like Jean-Michel Jarre and Vangelis. In the first half of the 1990s, Pitchfork had become one of the most popular music groups of the German Dark Wave culture.

Between the mid- and late-1990s, the band changed their musical direction to a more trend-oriented style, which was strongly influenced by Rock, Electropop, Techno/Trance, Trip Hop, Breakbeat and Big Beat music. The result of this musical blend has been released on the albums "¡Chakra:Red!" (1997), "Eon:Eon" (1998) and the most successful work "Daimonion" (2001).
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Albums

Live 11/90 Hi

(Cass)
Not On Label (Project Pitchfork Self-released) 1990

K.N.K.A.

(Cass, Album, Ltd)
Not On Label (Project Pitchfork Self-released) 1990

Dhyani

(4 versions)
Hypnobeat, Hypnobeat 1991

Lam-'Bras

(4 versions)
Hypnobeat 1992

Entities

(4 versions)
Hypnobeat 1992

IO

(7 versions)
Off Beat 1994

α Ω

(4 versions)
Candyland Entertainment 1995

¡Chakra:Red!

(4 versions)
Candyland Entertainment 1997

Live '97

(CD, Album, Ltd, Met)
Candyland Entertainment 1997

Eon:Eon

(4 versions)
EastWest 1998

Daimonion

(4 versions)
EastWest Records GmbH 2001

Inferno

(3 versions)
WEA 2002

NUN Trilogie

(3xCD + Box, Ltd)
Candyland Entertainment 2003

Live 2003/2001

(CD, Copy Prot.)
WEA, Candyland Entertainment 2003

Kaskade

(4 versions)
Candyland Entertainment 2005

Dream, Tiresias!

(7 versions)
Prussia Records, Candyland Entertainment 2009

Continuum Ride

(2 versions)
[Trisol] Music Group GmbH 2010

Quantum Mechanics

(3 versions)
[Trisol] Music Group GmbH 2011

Singles & EPs

Psychic Torture

(4 versions)
Hypnobeat, Hypnobeat 1991

Precious New World

(Box, Ltd + 7", Single)
Hypnobeat 1991

Carrion

(CD, Single)
Off Beat, Off Beat 1993

Renascence

(CD, Single)
Off Beat, Off Beat 1994

Corps D'Amour

(CD, EP)
Candyland Entertainment 1995

CH`I

(CD, EP)
Candyland Entertainment, Candyland Entertainment 1995

En Garde!

(CD, Maxi)
Candyland Entertainment 1996
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Reviews & Discussion

Review by AlienZain7 Jan 18, 2010
They are the best band I know, and I listen to a lot of very progressive contemporary electronic music. Even their stuff from the 90s is AMAZING. I really mean it, the things they create are literally from the future, not just an imitation of what the future might be i.e. futurism. So, sometimes his titles aren't bang on, but remember English isn't his native tongue. It's almost like Peter Spilles is a medium for an angel, he has these incredible brilliant moments lyric-wise and composition wise, on some tracks it's not at that level. But when it is, it is really better than anything I've ever heard. And like I said I'm constantly listening to today's top European producers.

Best tracks of Projekt Pitchfork imo:

Echoes
Fleischvertstarker
animal
body - spirit
engarde
I live your dream
radiolarie
trialog
die schlange
feel
conjure
song of winds
souls
rescue
the future is now
your tempting fantasy
inferno
lead and feather
Review by selektastjarna Jun 10, 2008
Project Pitchfork was one of my favorite bands in the early nineties because they combined the best sensibilities of the three related styles of music which I favored most at the time: Gothic, Industrial, and Electro.

Obviously, they were not for everyone. For me, however, I appreciated their classical composition as well as their song-writing. It was by far not the most "tough" or dark sounding band out at the time... but the spiritual wisdom of their lyrics intrigued me.

My favorite albums by them are Lam-bras, Entities, and Io.
Review by fabriknos Oct 16, 2007
I always found Project Pitchfork to have really silly song titles, silly appearance, and mostly silly music over the years. They're not a very good example of EBM although they're commonly lumped into that category. More appropriate I would call them "gothic electronic" music which is somewhere between Sisters of Mercy and A Split Second, if I had to pick two bands. They are still popular to a degree in their home country of Germany but I could never understand why they had such success, none of their music really does it for me. To each their own.
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