EMF
Photo Credit: Phil Hunt
This is a faithful cover of the original Bauhaus classic from EMF. Only this time you can add an extra rave ingredient to get your teeth into. So, if you’rea ravedigger, come the big day, get down to your local cemetery with some friends and a graveyard blaster and get this on. You’ll be raving with the bats in no time.
“At the local pub in our teenage years was a jukebox,” recalls vocalist James Atkin. “The go-to record that eventually got worn out by us was Bauhaus’ ‘Bela Lugosi’s Dead.’ To be able to revisit this and do our own EMF-inspired cover version is a real treat for us, a real Halloween treat, that is. It may come as a surprise, but we embraced true goth culture in our youth. The first band I actually saw play live was The Mission.”
The first band guitarist Ian Dench saw, however, was the band who provided the source material. He recalls, “I saw Bauhaus play at Bristol Locarno in the U.K. on October 10, 1982. I was 18. Their energy and the way they created an atmosphere was electrifying, especially when they played ‘Bela Lugosi’s Dead’.”
Premiering via Brooklyn Vegan, their rendition of “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” caught the ear of Bauhaus guitarist David J, who commented, “A colony of bats burst out from the Forest of Dean to the soundtrack of ‘Bela Lugosi’s Dead’ fed through a contemporary minimalist dystopian filter. The tight rhythmic dub echoes making for a propulsive drive that sees this compact and condensed cover rush past the finishing line in misty Transylvania.”
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