Prussian Perverts

Genre: sexdance, europerve

Era: 1990s

Country of Origin: Germany

Prussian Perverts began life in Dresden in 1990 as Mickey Sex Mouse, one of the more prominent of the countless bands that formed in the wave of liberative euphoria that washed across the country after David Hasselhoff took a break from filming Baywatch to tear down the Berlin Wall and kill Communism. Despite a residence in Dresden’s Ministry of Sound (the former Stasi phone-tapping bureau) they saw little initial success until 1991, when the threat of legal action from the Disney Corporation forced them to change their name.

The name change proved to be a blessing: one month after the letter from Disney’s lawyers, Gerhard Bunt of Fourth Reich Rekords received a demo tape from the newly minted Prussian Perverts and he signed the band immediately.

They didn’t look back. No mulleted East German clubber jemmied off his glands on disco marmalade in Dresden’s sadly now defunct Blitzkrieg Klub can have failed to miss Prussian Perverts and their aural-erotic disco monuments. With the sonically enormous club assault U Make Me Perve and the needlessly offensive Sexdance Hitler, in which the Nazi leader’s Nuremberg speech is sampled over a grindingly urgent soundcrunch of rhythmic sexual noises and highly charged electrobliss, the band provided the soundtrack for an entire liberated generation (though it should be noted that the generation in question is now suffering from ear damage, memory loss and severe paranoid episodes).

The success was not to last, however. Despite strong opposition from weird, sex-starved loners, the late 90s saw the introduction of draconian public decency laws in Germany, and in 1997 Prussian Perverts were banned from performing in public after a concert that Der Däly Mäl described as “grossly, mesmerisingly indecent”. They were dropped by Fourth Reich Rekords soon after.

Ten years on they enjoy a weekly residency at Amsterdam’s Den Kokkenkluub brothel, where they provide a lumpy, filth-sodden soundtrack for countless acts of unspeakable depravity. Deep down, this is probably all they ever wanted.

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