Pyogenesis "Unpop"

Immediately the band started to work on 'Twinaleblood's follow-up album. A serious touch of alternative-music could be found in these 19 recordings that were produced in February 1996 in the band's own studio. The material was used for two different releases. The first one, 'Love Nation Sugarhead' mini-EP, came out 18 October 1996 and had 6 songs, whereof 4 were not released on the album. The title-track's video clip gained serious interest in all relevant music-TV-channels. Due to its success a remix for the American market was made by King Britt and Josh Wink, two worldwide respected DJs, who have been already working for Depeche Mode or Moby. Flo V. Schwarz was flown in to Philadelphia to rerecord the vocals for it, at the end of the year. The remix was released as a 12" maxi and became a collectors item.

To gain interest on the forthcoming album, Pyogenesis played a tour with Social Distortion, late 1996 and released 'Unpop' in January 1997. VIVA TV had them to perform two songs live every day for a whole week. The front cover which showed lead singer Flo V. Schwarz naked with a guitar in front of his private parts, had to be changed for the US American market, because the distributor would not work with this artwork.

Among numerous club-shows and festivals the highlights of the following summer was an open-air concert in Hungary with an audience of more than 560,000 and the German Rheinkultur with 120.000 visitors. At the last-named singer Flo V. Schwarz encouraged the audience to throw drenched soil to the stage, after it had rained for two full days, which led to an interruption of the event and the festival promoter filed a charge of mass-vandalism and wanted 50.000 Deutsch mark for the crop damage. The newspaper Bonner Rundschau headlined 'From Rhein-culture to mud-culture'.

Tracklist:

1. Blue Smiley's Plan 03:46   
2. Get Up 02:23  
3. Love Nation Sugarhead 03:56  
4. Alternative Girl 03:06   
5. Rhapsodie in E 02:42  
6. Junkie on a Cloud 01:57  
7. To Me 02:34  
8. Cheapo Speakers 02:40  
9. All the Pills 02:03  
10. Silver Experience 03:29
11. My Style 03:02  
12. Ton-Recycling 01:59
13. XXL-Ego-King 02:34  
14. Lower All Your High Standards 02:24  
15. Sehnsucht (Purple Schulz cover) 11:24   

Time:   49:59  

Also available with a different cover.

Music videos for "Blue Smiley's Plan" and "Love Nation Sugarhead" were made.

Recording information:

Recorded at Factory of Audio Arts, Beuren, April-June 1996.

Mixed at Impuls Tonstudio, Hamburg, June-July 1996.

Mastered and edited at Masterdisk, NYC, July 1996.