Tanz Baby! are David & Mu, the “Great Pretenders” of Vienna’s music scene. With “Liebe” (“Love”) they present their premier album.
Using instruments such as a 1970s electronic organ, with its typical groove patterns, and a 1980s vintage drum, Tanz Baby! create a unique atmosphere of otherworldly artificial retro pop. Melancholy, mariachi style trumpets and a dreamy accordion play cool melodies and transport listeners to far away imaginary seashores. David, always wearing a red rose with his signature black suit, croons with great theatricality and draws the audience into a world of love, desire, and despair. Mu, combining rhythms and song structures influenced by Neue Deutsche Welle music, composed the songs with linguistic idioms from such music genres as “German Schlager.” His songs tell highly sentimental stories sliding from urban solitude to Balkan-flavored escapism.
This all might sound like some ironic approach to easy listening music, but these songs are far more beautiful and subtle than that. Beneath Tanz Baby!’s artificial surface lies the perfect soundtrack for a generation of desperate soldiers of fortune: city dwellers, the night crawlers, spending their time with random partners in search of their one true love. And this is what makes Tanz Baby! so unique, so fascinating, so adorable. With their visionary simplicity, they conjure up images everyone knows and dreams about. The duo’s live performances are the freshest and hottest “insider tips” for audiences, at home and abroad, in underground clubs, and at fancy “glamor” events.
This premier album was recorded with a low-fi-attitude by producer and multi-instrumentalist Thomas Pronai, aka Mr. Beautiful Kantine (of the Beautiful Kantine Band). He not only supervised the recordings but also played various percussion instruments and additional guitars as well. Under his influence, the album evolved into a collection of ten broad-sounding pop songs that are a “must hear” for music lovers and dreamers everywhere!
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