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Douglas McCarthy (Nitzer Ebb)

History of Nitzer Ebb

Douglas McCarthy - (vocals/guitar)
Bon Harris - (vocals/bass)
Jason Payne - (drums)

Before the majority of industrial acts added guitars and became the heavy metal of the 1990s, Nitzer Ebb produced hard-hitting electronic music with the Teutonic bent and abrasive edge of early industrial music, plus the vocal chanting and beat-heavy flavor of the late-'80s alternative and Balearic dance scene. Formed in Chelmsford, Essex in 1982 by vocalist Douglas McCarthy, drummer Bon Harris and keyboard player David Gooday, the group began experimenting with synthesizers and drum pads, fusing their affinity for dark goth and punk rock with the emerging technology. After several popular shows around London during 1984, PWL producer Phil Harding began working with Nitzer Ebb and recorded their first single, "Isn't It Funny How Your Body Works," which appeared on the band's Power of Voice Communications label in 1985. Three more singles followed during 1985-86 before Nitzer Ebb signed to Mute in late 1986; the first Mute recordings were the singles "Murderous" and "Let Your Body Learn" in early 1987, just before the release of their debut album, That Total Age. After the single "Join in the Chant" was remixed by producer Flood (Nick Cave, Erasure), it became one of the crucial tracks in the growing alternative/Balearic dance scene, played out alongside Chicago house, Detroit techno and Northern soul.

After the release of This Total Age, Nitzer Ebb toured Europe with Depeche Mode, and the pop sensibilities appeared to inspire them. By the time of their second album, Belief , Gooday had disappeared (to be replaced by Julian Beeston) and Flood had taken over the producer's role from Harding, nudging Nitzer Ebb closer to the dancefloor and shearing away the militaristic bent of much of their earlier recordings. Singles like "Hearts and Minds," "Shame" and "Lightning Man" were loaded with the cold aggression of earlier recordings, working well on dancefloors as well as college radio stations; the 1990 single "Fun to Be Had" even reached number two on the dance charts. The following year's Ebbhead further consolidated their position with alternative audiences, with at least two well-known singles, "I Give to You" and "Godhead." As a whole, though, the album showed Nitzer Ebb a bit confused as to where industrial music was going.

In 1991 Nitzer Ebb's Ebbhead album catapulted the Essex, England duo into the big league of electro-industrial noise mayhem merchants. It was a brooding, menacing, superbly addictive album of sledgehammer beats and disturbing lyrical insights. The band had threatened to deliver the quintessential Nitzer Ebb album for years - this was it.

Nitzer Ebb toured Ebbhead around the globe to adulation. However, with typical perversity, when the founding members Douglas McCarthy and Bon Harris returned to the UK to plan their next move, they sat down to examine exactly what they wanted Nitzer Ebb to be and discovered they shared a nagging but profound dissatisfaction with the band's direction.

"I'd been getting bored of relying on nothing but programmed, inflexible computers, and I realized that Bon had as well," says Doug. "We decided to experiment with interpreting the Nitzer Ebb feel with instruments."

So work began on the album which became Big Hit. Doug and Bon began writing songs in London, but it was a journey which was to take them to Chicago, Los Angeles and Nevada and incorporate changes in musicians, producers and attitude.

The first songwriting sessions were tentative. Nitzer Ebb had spent years channeling their reserves of energy and frustration into computers and creating musical electro-explosions. Since founding the band in 1983, Doug and Bon have released four albums of industrial strength techno-madness. That Total Age (1987), Belief (1988), Showtime (1990), and Ebbhead (1991) all delivered on the promise set forth by the band's first single, "Isn't It Funny How Your Body Works," released in 1984. Now they began work on their fifth album with Doug playing guitar and Bon on bass.

"We hadn't sat and jammed for ten years but found it gave us a lot more emotional input." says Bon. "Ebbhead was like piecing together fragments of a jigsaw puzzle. This was a lot more like a real band playing."

Nitzer Ebb decided to record Big Hit in the U.S., and after an aborted start in Chicago, settled down in Los Angeles with producer Flood (Al Clay, who was part of the early collaborations, produced "Border Talk").

"It was good to work with Flood because the way he treated guitars with technology on the U2 and Depeche Mode albums was the route we wanted to go," says Doug. "It showed you can get energy and weirdness without premeditated programming."

Flood took a break to record Zooropa with U2. Meanwhile, Nitzer Ebb searched for a drummer, working with sticksmen including ex-Pixie David Lovering before settling on L.A. native Jason Payne.

By now, Doug and Bon realized their rethinking of musical perspective had paid off. The combination of guitar, bass, and computer technology was shaping into an album which was exciting them more day by day.

"We knew we were pushing back the boundaries of our sound, expanding the band's reach," says Bon. "The passion is still there but I'm proud of the musicality of this record."

"I was able to write about a wider range of emotions," agrees Doug. "Before we were all frustration and anger and violence, and it was all true, but now I can delve deeper, go into other emotional areas as well."

The resulting album, Big Hit, sees Nitzer Ebb making a major leap forward. They've taken risks in radically rethinking the band's whole ethos and been rewarded. This time around the band have varied their attack. There are new nuances and subtleties.

"There are lots of people like Trent Reznor trying to be the loudest, hardest man in the world, which is fair enough but it doesn't interest us now," says Doug. "I wrote a song on Big Hit called 'Boy' about the pain and hurt I feel at being separated from my son, and I'd never have put that on a Nitzer Ebb album before!"

However, Big Hit contains more than enough trademark seismic detonations of Nitzer Ebb frustration and anger at modern living to satisfy hardcore fans. "Cherry Blossom," the opening track, is a musical outburst of fire which Doug unleashed around the time of the Gulf War hostilities.

"It seemed so clear-cut that we had to fight the Iraqis because they were totally in the wrong," he says. "Then we leave the Kurds to die and do nothing about Bosnia and it becomes evident that it was an utterly cynical exercise to safeguard our oil. This cynicism is a perpetual thing, as inevitable as cherry blossoms falling off the trees each year."

Similarly, "In Decline" was a song triggered by a visit Nitzer Ebb made to Russia two years ago.

"I remember seeing this old man, about 80 years old, sweeping the streets of St. Petersburg in full military uniform," says Doug. "It was so sad and pathetic, and yet it's no different form the West where we have to wear this uniform of pretending to be an adult, just to keep people in their place."

As ever, though, Big Hit deals more with personal than global politics; most songs work off the energies and passions of damaged relationships

Nitzer Ebb have never been a band to play safe. They took their electro-rage as far as it could go, tired of its rigid limitations, and cast around for an alternative. Big Hit is the record that came out of this search; a vast, powerful, passionate return. It's proof of a band that's still growing, still maturing, and still willing to chart new territories.

"Our music reflects our state of mind," says Nitzer Ebb's Bon Harris, "and this record is more introspective than our other albums. But there's still that edge of intensity there, because Nitzer Ebb are NEVER laid back!"

"Even when we write a love song, it's aggressive and twisted," agrees Doug McCarthy. "That's Nitzer Ebb. If it sounds too straight it's wrong! But there are more emotions here, more honesty, and less vagueness -- with the same power and frustrations and anger. If there wasn't passion, it wouldn't be a Nitzer Ebb record!"

Nitzer Ebb Discography

TI=Title | RD=Release Date | CN=Catalogue Number |
RL=Record Label | FM=Format | TL=Track Listing

TI: Isn't It Funny How Your Body Works
RD: 7th January 1985
CN: NEP1 / CDNEB1
RL: Blue August Productions / Power Of Voice Communications (UK)
FM: 12" / CDS
TL: Isn't It Funny How Your Body Works / The Way You Live / Crane / Cold War
[produced by Phil Harding]

TI: Warsaw Ghetto
RD: 25 October 1985
CN: NEP2 / CDNEB2
RL: Blue August Productions / Power Of Voice Communications (UK)
FM: 12"
TL: Warsaw Ghetto / So Bright, So Strong (? Mix) / So Bright, So Strong
FM: CDS
TL: Warsaw Ghetto / So Bright, So Strong
[produced by Phil Harding]

TI: Warsaw Ghetto Remixes / Warsaw Getto Remixes + bonus track
RD: 21st March 1986
CN: NEBX2 / CDNEBX2
RL: Power Of Voice Communications (UK)
FM: 12" / CDS
TL: Warsaw Ghetto (Dub Mix)* / So Bright, So Strong (Radio Mix) / Warsaw Ghetto (Radio Mix) / Warsaw Ghetto (Rap Mix)* / ?(bonus track)
[produced by Phil Harding]
*remixed by Phil Harding

TI: Warsaw Ghetto
RD: 1986
CN: 50-2016-44
RL: Discobox / Rush (Germany)
FM: 12" / CDS
TL: Warsaw Ghetto / So Bright, So Strong / Crane / Isn't It Funny How Your Body Works
[produced by Phil Harding]

TI: Let Your Body Learn
RD: 23rd May 1986
CN: NEB3
RL: Power Of Voice Communications (UK)
FM: 12"
TL: Let Your Body Learn / Get Clean
[produced by Phil Harding]

TI: Murderous
RD: November 1986
CN: Mute NEB4 / Geffen ?
RL: Mute Records / Power Of Voice Communications (UK) / Geffen Records(US)
FM: 7"
TL: Murderous / Fitness To Purpose
FM: 12"
TL: Murderous / Fitness To Purpose / Murderous (Repetition)
[produced by Phil Harding]

TI: Get Clean
RD: 1986
CN: NEP5
RL: Power of Voice Communications (UK)
FM: 7"
TL: Get Clean / ?
[produced by Phil Harding]

TI: Compilation Album 84/86
RD: ?
CN: DIL3617
RL: Indisc (Belgium)
FM: LP
TL: Isn't It Funny How Your Body Works / The Way You Live / Crane / Cold War / Get Clean / Warsaw Ghetto (Radio Mix) / So Bright, So Strong (Radio Edit) / Warsaw Ghetto (Original 12" Mix)* / So Bright, So Strong (Original 12" Mix)*
[produced by Phil Harding]
*remixed by Phil Harding

TI: Let Your Body Learn
RD: 13th April 1987
CN: Mute MUTE58 / Geffen 20716-0
RL: Blue August Productions / 1986 Power Of Voice Communications / 1987 Mute Records LTD (UK) / Geffen Records (US)
FM: 7" (Mute)
TL: Let Your Body Learn (DM Hansa Mix)** / Let Your Body Learn (Instrumental)
FM: 12" (Mute)
TL: Let Your Body Learn / Let Your Body Learn (Instrumental) / Let Your Body Learn (Seven Inch Edit)**
FM: 12" (Geffen)
TL: Let Your Body Learn (12" Mix)* / Let Your Body Learn (Instrumental) / Warsaw Ghetto (12" Mix)*
FM: P12" (Geffen PRO-A-2755)
TL: Let Your Body Learn (Edit) / Murderous (Edit)
[produced by Phil Harding]
*remixed by Phil Harding
**remixed by Daniel Miller

TI: That Total Age
RD: 11th May 1987
CN: Mute STUMM45 / Geffen 24155
RL: Mute Records (UK) / Geffen Records (US)
FM: LP / CD / CS
TL: Fitness To Purpose / Warsaw Ghetto (LP / CS Only) / Violent Playground+ / Murderous / Smear Body+ / Join In The Chant / Alarm / Let Your Body Learn* / Let Beauty Loose / Into The Large Air / Join In The Chant (Metal Mix) (CD Only) / Fitness To Purpose (Mix Two) (CD Only) / Murderous (Instrumental) (CD Only)
[produced by Phil Harding except +produced by Duffy]
*remixed by Daniel Miller and Gareth Jones

TI: Join In The Chant
RD: 10th August 1987
CN: Mute MUTE64 / Geffen 20786
RL: Mute Records (UK) / Geffen Records (US)
FM: 7"
TL: Join In The Chant (Gold!)** / Join In The Chant (Lies!)
FM: 12"
TL: Joint In The Chant (Burn!)* / Join In The Chant (Gold!)** / Join In The Chant (Lies!)
[produced by Phil Harding]
*remixed by Phil Harding
**remixed by Daniel Miller and Flood

TI: So Bright, So Strong
RD: 1988
CN: 8.26801
RL: Up Front (Germany)
FM: LP / CD / CS
TL: Isn't It Funny How Your Body Works / The Way You Live / Crane / Cold War / Warsaw Ghetto (Original 12" Mix)* / So Bright, So Strong (Original 12" Mix)* / Warsaw Ghetto (Dub Mix)* / So Bright, So Strong (Radio Edit) / Warsaw Ghetto (Radio Edit) / Warsaw Ghetto (Rap Mix)* / Get Clean
[produced by Phil Harding]
*remixed by Phil Harding

TI: Control Im Here
RD: 17th October 1988
CN: Intercord 826.874 / Mute MUTE71 / Geffen ?
RL: Intercord Ton GmbH (Germany) / Mute Records (UK) / Geffen Records (US)
FM: 7"
TL: Control Im Here (Zero Option Mix) / K.I.A.
FM: 12"
TL: Control Im Here (Command Control Confront Mix) / K.I.A. / Control Im Here (Hardcore Mix)
FM: L12"
TL: Control Im Here (Strategic Dance Initiative) / K.I.A. (PK Mix)* / Join In The Chant (Burn!)**
FM: CDS
TL: Control Im Here (Zero-Option Mix) / Control Im Here (Instrumental Club Mix) / K.I.A. / Control Im Here (Hardcore Mix)
[produced by Flood]
*remixed by Paul Kendall
**remixed by Phil Harding

TI: Belief
RD: 9th January 1989
CN: Mute STUMM61 / Geffen 24213
RL: Mute Records (UK)/ Geffen Records(US)
FM: LP / CD / CS
TL: Hearts And Minds / For Fun / Control Im Here / Captivate / T.W.A. / Blood Money / Shame / Drive / Without Belief / K.I.A. (PK Mix)* (UK CD Only) / Control Im Here (S.D.I. Mix)** (UK CD Only) / Without Belief (Instrumental) (UK CD Only)
[produced by Flood]
*remixed by Paul Kendall
**remixed by Cod

TI: Hearts And Minds
RD: 30th January 1989
CN: Mute MUTE78 / Geffen ?
RL: Mute Records (UK) / Geffen Records (US)
FM: 7"
TL: Hearts And Minds (Radio Mix) / For Fun (LP Version)
FM: 12"
TL: Hearts And Minds (Mix Hypersonic)*** / For Fun (LP Version) / Time Slips By
FM: L12"
TL: Hearts And Minds (Mix Subsonic)*** / For Fun (LP Version) / Time Slips By (PK Mix)*
FM: CDS
TL: Hearts And Minds (Mix Hypersonic)*** / Hearts And Minds (Radio Edit) / For Fun (Mix)** / Time Slips By (PK Mix)*
[produced by Flood]
*remixed by Paul Kendall
**remixed by Cod
***remixed by Daniel Miller

TI: I-Beam (live bootleg)
RD: 15th April 1989
CN: ?
RL: ?
FM: ?
TL: ?

TI: Shame
RD: 23rd October 1989
CN: Intercord 826.909 / Mute MUTE96 / Geffen ?
RL: Intercord Ton GmbH (Germany) / Mute Records (UK) / Geffen Records (US)
FM: 7"
TL: Shame (Radio Mix)* / Backlash
FM: 12"
TL: Shame (Mix One) / Backlash (William Orbit Remix)**
FM: L12"
TL: Shame (Mix Two) / Captivate (Remix)**
FM: P12"
TL: Shame (Mix Three) / ?
FM: CDS
TL: Shame (Mix No. 1)* / Captivate (Mix No. 6)** / Backlash (Mix No. 4)**
[produced by Flood]
*remixed by Flood
**remixed by William Orbit

TI: Lightning Man
RD: 5th February 1990
CN: Intercord 826.924 / Mute MUTE106 / Geffen ?
RL: Intercord Ton GmbH (Germany) / Mute Records (UK) / Geffen Records (US)
FM: 7"
TL: Lightning Man (7" Version) / Who We Are+
FM: 12"
TL: Lightning Man / Who We Are+
FM: L12"
TL: Lightning Man (RSW Mix) / Lightning Man (The Industry vs. The Ebb Mix)*
FM: P12" (Geffen 21465)
TL: Lightning Man (The Industry vs. The Ebb Mix)* / Lightning Man (RSW Mix) / Shame (The Shameless Mix)** / Shame (The Painful Emotion Mix)* / Lightning Man (7" Mix)
FM: CDS
TL: Lightning Man (7" Version) / Who We Are+ / Lightning Man (The Industry vs. The Ebb Mix)* / Lightning Man (Barry Adamson Mix)***
[produced by Flood except +produced by Paul Kendall]
*remixed by Daniel Miller
**remixed by William Orbit
***remixed by Barry Adamson

TI: Showtime
RD: 26th February 1990
CN: Mute STUMM72 / Geffen 24284
RL: Mute Records (UK) / Geffen Records (US)
FM: LP / CD / CS
TL: Getting Closer / Nobody Knows / One Man's Burden / All Over / My Heart / Lightning Man / Rope+ / Hold On / Fun To Be Had
[produced by Flood except +produced by Paul Kendall]

TI: Fun To Be Had
RD: 19th September 1990
CN: Mute MUTE115 / Geffen ?
RL: Mute Records (UK) / Geffen Records (US)
FM: 7"
TL: Fun To Be Had* / Out Of Mind+
FM: 12"
TL: Fun To Be Had (Master Mix)** / Getting Closer (Trance Mix)*** / Out Of Mind (Maitresse Mix)****
FM: L12"
TL: Fun To Be Had (Long Mix)* / Getting Closer (Kitchen Mix)*** / Taken From Me (Servant Mix)****
FM: P12" (Geffen PRO-A1-4169)
TL: Fun To Be Had (Allergic Mix)** / Fun To Be Had (Sneeze Mix)** / Fun To Be Had (Rave Mix)** / Fun To Be Had (Rave On Mix)**
FM: PCDS (Geffen 4137)
TL: Fun To Be Had (Zulu Mix)** / Fun To Be Had (Dust Mix)** / Out Of Mind (7" Version)+ / Fun To Be Had (George Clinton Mix / Long Mix)* / Fun To Be Had (George Clinton Mix / Instrumental Mix)* / Fun To Be Had (George Clinton Mix / Edit Mix)* / Fun To Be Had (George Clinton Mix / Real Short Edit)*
FM: CDS
TL: Fun To Be Had (7")* / Getting Closer (Trance Mix)*** / Out Of Mind (Spoken Mix)****
[produced by Flood except +produced by Paul Kendall]
*remixed by George Clinton
**remixed by Dust Brothers
***remixed by Tony Garcia
****remixed by Paul Kendall

TI: Lightning Man / Getting Closer / Fun To Be Had
RD: 1990
CN: Geffen 21602
RL: Geffen Records (US)
FM: CDS
TL: Lightning Man (The Industry vs. The Ebb Mix)***** / Lightning Man (RSW Mix) / Getting Closer (The Pool Mix)**** / Getting Closer (The Trance Mix)*** / Getting Closer (The Kitchen Mix)*** / Fun To Be Had (Zulu Mix)** / Fun To Be Had (The George Clinton Mix / Long Mix)*
[produced by Flood]
*remixed by George Clinton
**remixed by Dust Brothers
***remixed by Tony Garcia
****remixed by Paul Kendall
*****remixed by Daniel Miller

TI: Getting Closer
RD: 1990
CN: Geffen 21606
RL: Geffen Records (US)
FM: 12"
TL: Getting Closer (The Trance Mix)* / Getting Closer (The Pool Mix)** / Getting Closer (The Kitchen Mix)* / Getting Closer (The Kitchen Dub)*
FM: P12" (Geffen PRO-A-4131)
TL: Getting Closer (The Trance Mix)* / Getting Closer (The Stupid Mix)* / Getting Closer (The Kitchen Mix)* / Getting Closer (The Kitchen Dub)*
[produced by Flood]
*remixed by Tony Garcia
**remixed by Paul Kendall

TI: As Is EP
RD: 10th June 1991
CN: Mute MUTE122 / Geffen 21658
RL: Mute Records (UK) / Geffen Records (US)
FM: LP / CD / CS
TL: Family Man+ / Lovesick++ / Come Alive+++ / Higher++++
+produced by Jaz Coleman
++produced by Flood
+++produced by Alan Wilder
++++produced by Barry Adamson & Paul Kendall

TI: I Give To You
RD: 27th August 1991
CN: MUTE133
RL: Mute Records (UK)
FM: 7"
TL: I Give To You / Stray Cat Blues+
FM: 10"
TL: I Give To You (Elemental)* / I Give To You (Pestilence)* / Stray Cat Blues (Adventurous)+
FM: 12"
TL: I Give To You / Stray Cat Blues (Scare-Eyed)+ / Stray Cat Blues+
FM: L12"
TL: I Give To You (Wilder Mix Full Version)** / I Give To You (Elemental)* / I Give To You (Pestilence)* / I Give To You (LP Version)
FM: CDS
TL: I Give To You / I Give To You (Elemental)* / Stray Cat Blues+ / Stray Cat Blues (Scare-Eyed)+
[produced by Alan Wilder and Flood except +produced by Paul Kendall]
*remixed by Paul Kendall and Barry Adamson
**remixed by Alan Wilder

TI: Ebbhead
RD: 30th September 1991
CN: Mute STUMM88 / Geffen 24456
RL: Mute Records (UK) / Geffen Records (US)
FM: LP / CD / CS
TL: Reasons / Lakeside Drive / I Give To You / Sugar Sweet / DJVD / Time / Ascend / Godhead / Trigger Happy / Family Man (Remixed Version) (CD Only)
[produced by Alan Wilder and Flood]

TI: Godhead
RD: 30th December 1991
CN: Mute MUTE135 / Geffen 21705
RL: Mute Records (UK) / Geffen Records (US)
FM: 12" / CDS (Mute)
TL: Godhead (Remix)** / Let Your Body Learn/Murderous (Live)+ / Control I'm Here (Live)+
FM: L12" / LCDS (Mute)
TL: Godhead (Live)+ / Getting Closer (Live)+ / Join In The Chant (Live)+
FM: PCDS [All States Promo] (Geffen 4374)
TL: Godhead (Purified Version)** / I Give To You (Pestilence)* / Join In The Chant++ / Control I'm Here+++ / Fun To Be Had+++ / Come Alive++++
FM: PCDS (Geffen PRO-CD-4384)
TL: Godhead (Purified Version)** / Godhead (Alternate Purified Version)** / Godhead (LP Version)
FM: CDS (Geffen)
TL: Godhead (Purified Version)** / Godhead (Alternate Purified Version)** / Godhead (Live)+ / Godhead (LP Version) / Let Your Body Learn/Murderous (Live Medley)+ / Join In The Chant (Live)+
[produced by Alan Wilder and Flood]
+live sound production by Steev A. Toth; assisted by Paul Kendall
++produced by Phil Harding
+++produced by Flood
++++produced by Alan Wilder
*remixed by Paul Kendall and Barry Adamson
**remixed by Steve Lyon

TI: Ascend
RD: 30th March 1992
CN: MUTE145
RL: Mute Records (UK)
FM: 10" #1
TL: Ascend (Pro-gress Three Vox)** / Ascend (Single Mix)* / Trigger Happy (Remix)***
FM: 10" #2
TL: Ascend (Remix)* / Ascend (Pro-gress Three Instrumental)** / Lakeside Drive (Remix)* / Trigger Happy (Sparse Mix)***
FM: P12" (P12MUTE145)
TL: Ascend (Flood 7" Mix)* / Ascend (Mark Stagg Progress 3 Instr.)** / Ascend (Anonymous Mix)**** / Trigger Happy (Philipp Erb 12" Mix)***
FM: CDS
TL: Ascend (Single Mix)* / Ascend (Pro-gress Three Vox)** / Ascend (Remix)* / Trigger Happy (Remix)***
FM: CS
TL: Ascend (Anonymous Mix)**** / Ascend (Single Mix)* / Ascend (Remix)*
[produced by Alan Wilder and Flood]
*remixed by Flood
**remixed by Mark Stagg
***remixed by Philipp Erb
****remixed by Vince Clarke

TI: For Fun (live bootleg)
RD: 1992
CN: SE320
RL: Bundy Records
FM: CD
TL: Warsaw Ghetto / Violent Playground / Let Beauty Loose / Blood Money / For Fun / Join In The Chant / Hearts And Minds / Captivate / Shame / Let Your Body Learn / Control Im Here / Reasons / DJVD / I Give To You / Family Man / Trigger Happy / Ascend

TI: Loveland (live bootleg)
RD: 1992
CN: MIK026/27
RL: Deep Records
FM: CD #1
TL: Fun To Be Had / Shame / Hold On / For Fun / Rope / All Over / My Heart / Blood Money / Hearts And Minds / Join In The Chant / Drive / Family Man / Let Your Body Learn / Murderous / Lightning Man / Control Im Here / Getting Closer
FM: CD #2
TL: Come Alive / Without Belief / Godhead / I Give To You / Backlash / Fitness To Purpose / Warsaw Ghetto / Violent Playground / Let Beauty Loose / Alarm / So Bright, So Strong / Smear Body / Isn't It Funny How Your Body Works

TI: Rhythm Control (live bootleg)
RD: 1992
CN: ?
RL: Antiscope Records
FM: CD
TL: Intro / Hearts And Minds / Join In The Chant / Reasons / For Fun / DJVD / I Give To You / Family Man / Trigger Happy / Shame / Ascend / Let Your Body Learn / So Bright, So Strong / Alarm / Warsaw Ghetto / Violent Playground / Let Beauty Loose / Control Im Here

TI: Cherry Blossom
RD: ?
CN: CDNEB5
RL: ?
FM: CDS
TL: Cherry Blossom
[produced by Flood]

TI: Nitzer Ebb
RD: 1993
CN: CDNEB6
RL: Power Of Voice Communications (UK)
FM: CDS
TL: Get Clean / Get Clean (Raw Sex)* / Get Clean (Raw Sex Without Rhythm)*
[produced by Phil Harding]
*remixed by Phil Harding

TI: Kick It
RD: 6th February 1995
CN: MUTE155
RL: Mute Records (UK)
FM: 12"
TL: Kick It (The Secret Knowledge Velvet DM's Mix)**** / Kick It (Logical Edit)** / Kick It (Banjo Sin)** / Kick It (Dub)*** / Kick It (Popular Music Mix)*****
FM: P12" (Geffen PRO-A-4721)
TL: Kick It (Adrian Sherwood-Main Mix)*** / Kick It (Adrian Sherwood-Compulsion Edit)*** / Kick It (Kris Needs-The Secret Knowledge Velvet DM's Mix)**** / Kick It (PK-Logical Edit)**
FM: CDS
TL: Kick It* / Kick It (Logical Edit)** / Kick It (Short Dub)*** / Kick It (Popular Music Mix)*****
FM: LCDS
TL: Kick It (The Secret Knowledge Velvet DM's Mix)**** / Skintight+ / Kick It (Banjo Sin)**
FM: XLCDS
TL: Kick It (Addiction Edit)*** / Dead & Gone+ / Kick It (Hippy Grip)******
[produced by Flood except +produced by Nitzer Ebb]
*remixed by David Bianco
**remixed by Paul Kendall
***remixed by Adrian Sherwood
****remixed by Kris Needs
*****remixed by Vaughan (Bon) Harris and Randy Wilson
******remixed by Randy Wilson

TI: Big Hit
RD: 27 March 1995
CN: Mute STUMM118 / Geffen 24718
RL: Mute Records (UK) / Geffen Records (US)
FM: Promo Flexi-Disc Sampler (Mute)
TL: Cherry Blossom / In Decline / Our Own World
FM: LCD [Nitzer Ebb: Examples]
TL: Join In The Chant / Control I'm Here / Lightning Man / I Give To You
FM: LP / CD / CS
TL: Cherry Blossom / Hear Me Say / Kick It / I Thought / Floodwater / Border Talk+ / In Decline / Living Out Of A Bag / Boy / Our Own World
[produced by Flood except +produced by Al Clay]

TI: I Thought
RD: 24th April 1995
CN: MUTE164
RL: Mute Records (UK)
FM: 12"
TL: I Thought (Single Mix)* / I Thought (Sucked In, Sucked Out) / Cherry Blossom (Original Version)+ / I Thought (LP Version)
FM: CDS
TL: I Thought (Single Mix)* / Friend (Brittle Mix)+ / Beats Me+
FM: LCDS
TL: I Thought (LP Version) / Cherry Blossom (Original Version)+ / I Thought (Final Sin)**
[produced by Flood except +produced by Nitzer Ebb]
*remixed by Mark Saunders
**remixed by Pablo Castrati  

SIDE PROJECTS

PN=Project Name | PM=Project Member(s)

PN: Die Krupps with Nitzer Ebb
TI: The Machineries Of Joy
PM: Jürgen Engler / Ralf Dörper / Rudiger Esch / Vaughan (Bon) Harris / Douglas McCarthy / Julian Beeston
RD: 1989
CN: Geffen 21291
RL: Geffen Records (US)
FM: 12"
TL: The Machineries Of Joy (Wahre-Arbeit Mix) / The Machineries Of Joy (Die Krupps Mix) / The Machineries Of Joy (True Work Mix)* / Join The Rhythm Of Machines
[produced by Jürgen Engler and Ralf Dörper]
remixed by Die Krupps except *remixed by Nitzer Ebb and Paul Kendall

PN: Recoil
TI: Faith Healer
PM: Alan Wilder / Douglas McCarthy
RD: 1992
CN: Mute MUTE110 / Sire 40345
RL: Mute Records (UK) / Sire Records (US)
FM: 7"
TL: Faith Healer (LP Version)* / Faith Healer (Healed Mix)
FM: 12" / CD / CS
TL: Faith Healer (LP Version)* / Faith Healer (Trance Mix)* / Faith Healer (Conspiracy Theory)** / Faith Healer (Disbeliever Mix)*** / Faith Healer (Deformity)* / Faith Healer (Barracuda Mix)**** / Faith Healer (Conspiracy {Double Bullet} Theory)**
[produced by Alan Wilder]
*remixed by Alan Wilder and Steve Lyon
**remixed by Daniel Miller and Philipp Erb
***remixed by LFO
****remixed by Richard Hall (aka Moby)

PN: Recoil
TI: Bloodline
PM: Alan Wilder / Douglas McCarthy / Bukka White / Toni Halliday / Richard Hall (aka Moby) / Diamanda Galas
RD: 1992
CN: Mute STUMM94 / Sire 26850
RL: Mute Records (UK) / Sire Records (US)
FM: LP / CD / CS
TL: Faith Healer / Electro Blues For Bukka White / The Defector / Edge To Life / Curse / Bloodline / Freeze
[produced by Alan Wilder]

PN: Die Krupps
TI: Bloodsuckers
PM: Jürgen Engler / Ralf Dörper / Rudiger Esch / ? Buck / Lee Altus / Darren Minter
RD: 1995
CN: CLEO9579
RL: Cleopatra Records (US)
FM: CD
TL: Bloodsuckers (Die Krupps with Biohazard)* / Bloodsuckers (Original Mix) / Bloodsuckers (Julian Beeston Remix)** / Bloodsuckers (Live In Europe) / Dawning Of Doom (Live In Europe) / High Tech Low Life (Julian Beeston Remix)** / Metal Machine Music (Cassandra Complex Remix)*** / Rings Of Steel (Pro Pain Remix)****
[produced by Jürgen Engler and Chris Lietz]
*remixed by Evan Seinfeld and Billy Graziadei
**remixed by Julian Beeston and Del Tagg
***remixed by Rodney Orpheus
****remixed by Pro Pain and Steve Remote

PN: Shining
TI: Din
PM: Julian Beeston
RD: 23rd September 1997
CN: 63249
RL: Fifth Column Records
FM: CD
TL: ?

PN: Shining
TI: Din Mix
PM: Julian Beeston / Cubanate / New Mind / PIG / Die Krupps
RD: ?
CN: ?
RL: Fifth Column Records
FM: CD
TL: ?

PN: Recoil
TI: Unsound Methods
PM: Alan Wilder / Hepzibah Sessa / Douglas McCarthy / Maggie Estep / Siobhan Lynch / Hildia Cambell / Oliver Kraus
RD: November 1997
CN: Mute STUMM159 / Reprise 46820
RL: Mute Records (UK) / Reprise Records (US)
FM: LP / CD / CS
TL: Incubus / Drifting / Luscious Apparatus / Stalker / Red River Cargo / Control Freak / Missing Piece / Last Breath / Shunt
[produced by Alan Wilder]

PN: Recoil
TI: Stalker / Missing Piece
PM: Alan Wilder / Hepzibah Sessa / Douglas McCarthy / Maggie Estep / Siobhan Lynch / Hildia Cambell / Oliver Kraus
RD: ?
CN: Mute MUTE214
RL: Mute Records (UK)
FM: CD
TL: Stalker (Punished Mix)* / Missing Piece (Night Dissolves)* / Red River Cargo
[produced by Alan Wilder]
*remixed by Alan Wilder and Paul Kendall