Laibach takes over Legoland, found here, via Paul Komoda.
Fun fact! Laibach’s original concept for the Kapital record was that it would be a collection of love songs. The idea was to parody romantic pop melodies and how pathetic most of them are, but that album never happened. Instead, they ended up releasing the more enigmatic Kapital that we all know and love, which proclaimed that the economy is dead and memorably included a hip-hop song about astrophysics. Laibach released three different versions of the album, each with a different mixes of the songs; one on CD, one on tape and one on vinyl.
Buried deep within the vinyl and tape versions of Kapital, one song from the lost album of love ballads survived! That song is Steel Trust, and it’s performed by the beautiful Anja Rupel, who also sang Laibach’s cover of Across the Universe and performed in their subgroup, Germania.
And someone uploaded this song (no video) on YouTube. Here it is, in all its Euro-disco glory. Enjoy!
February 26th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
When first I got this on cassette, I thought something was wrong. Perhaps an Army of Lovers song had somehow accidentally slipped in mastering. Especially since it wasn’t on the CD version.
Eventually, though, I figured it out, and now it’s one of my favorite Laibach songs.
February 27th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
Great…now I really wished that love song concept came out…if this one track is any indication it would have been hypnotic. Kind of like when you stare at a car crash.
@Michael…why did you have to mention Army of Lovers??? Now I have that damned “Crucified” song in my head…I may as well watch the video now :P
February 27th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
I think that the album was actually completed and exists… somewhere. Kind of like the lost Cocteau Twins album, half of which exists but was never released. There are some vaults I want to break into!
April 14th, 2008 at 3:31 am
It was me who uploaded the song at YouTube :) nice to hear that you like it. They never made a video for this song. It seems like Steel Trust was the last song ever published by Germania, Laibach’s subgroup. It’s a pity… I prefer Germania to their other subgroup, 300.000 V.K. By the way, if you can’t understand Steel Trust’s video info at YouTube, the reason is that most of it was written by me in my mother tongue, Finnish.