-KMFDM-

KMFDM is an acronym for : Kein Mehrheit Fur Die Mitleid `no pity for the majority`. As a reaction to the feverish efforts `Fueled by a pointless 'Marketing Campaign'` to create 1001 possible meanings for our name, we made a point in 1994 by offering an alternative option. Keiner Macht Fur Dich Mehr `No one does more for you`, can be found in the lyrics of KMFDM 'Light'.

Kein Mehrheit Fur Die Mitleid was founded by Sascha Konietzko and Udo Sturm, a German painter and multi-media-performer, on February 29th, 1984, in Paris France. That day, the multi-national kunst-konspiracy 'erste hilfe' `German for 'first aid'`, was to perform for the opening exhibition of young european artists at the grand palanis in Paris. The audio-accompaniment was conducted by Sturm `he played a fragmented arp 2600 synthesizer in feedback mode` and Konietzko `who treated a bass guitar amplified by 5 ampeg bass-amplifiers placed in strategically significant areas of the huge turn-of-the-century steel and glass-construction` As well as four original Polish coal-miners `putting their tool-of-trade to work on the buildings foundations`.

Shortly thereafter, back in Hamburg, Germany, Konietzko started another project with Pete Missing, audio-anarchist from New York City, 'Missing Foundations'. In search for a drummer, En Esch was found, who had recently moved from his hometown, near Frankfurtm to Hamburg. Esch's and Konietzko's participation in MF did not last, and together with englishman Raymond 'Nainz' Watts, a friend of Konietzko's KMFDM `The abbreviation was introduced by Watts who could never pronounce the tongue-twister` picked up steam.

Their first album 'What Do You Know, Deutschland?' was released in December 1986. It consisted of recordings made in the years 1983-1986, some of which were done before En Esch joined the band `'What Do You Know, Deutschland?' and 'The un-restrained use of Excessive Force'`. In early 1987 KMFDM released 'Kickin' Ass' and licensed it to a british record-label which introduced them to the art-world of Brute. The 1988 release 'Don't Blow Your Top' was licensed to Wax Trax! Records in Chicago and the rest is history.......

KMFDM was disbanded on January 22nd, 1999. Shortly after the band reformed again.