In 2001, De Backer recorded his first tracks primarily using samples. He put together a four-track CD which included the song “Out Here in the Cold”. He made approximately 50 copies of this first collection, handwriting the track list and colouring in the cover sleeve in pencil. He named the…
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Following the release of The Gay Parade , the band signed with Kindercore Records , and in 2001, the concept album Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies: A Variety of Whimsical Verse was released.
In January 2001, Tool announced a new album, Systema Encéphale , along with a 12-song track list containing titles such as “Riverchrist”, “Numbereft”, “Encephatalis”, “Musick”, and “Coeliacus”. File-sharing networks such as Napster were flooded with bogus files bearing the titles’ names. A month later, the band revealed that the new…
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The follow-up to Come Clean was an internet-only compilation titled Open Day at the Hate Fest which was released in 2001. Also in the same year, Curve issued Gift , their fourth studio album. Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine also played guitar on the songs “Want More Need Less”…
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The album became a worldwide success, reaching No.1 on the U.S. Billboard 200 albums chart in its debut week. Tool received their second Grammy Award for the best metal performance of 2001 for the song ” Schism “. During the band’s acceptance speech, Carey stated that he would like to…
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In 2001, Depeche Mode released Exciter , produced by Mark Bell (of techno group LFO ). Bell introduced a minimalist, digital sound to much of the album, influenced by IDM and glitch . ” Dream On “, ” I Feel Loved “, ” Freelove ” and ” Goodnight Lovers ”…
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Daft Punk partnered with the Japanese manga artist Leiji Matsumoto to create Interstella 5555 , a feature-length animation set to Discovery . The first four episodes were shown on Toonami in 2001, and the finished film was released on DVD in 2003. That December, Daft Punk released Daft Club ,…
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Thirty Seconds to Mars retreated to the isolation of Wyoming’s countryside in 2001 to record their debut album, working with producers Bob Ezrin and Brian Virtue . They contacted Ezrin because they grew up listening to his work with Pink Floyd , Kiss and Alice Cooper and they felt he…
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In 2001 Q named The Downward Spiral as one of the 50 Heaviest Albums of All Time
Konietzko announced the return of KMFDM in early 2001, due to “public demand”, with Skold, Cifarelli, and former collaborators Watts and Rieflin joining him in the studio; he said at the time, “I talked with the usual KMFDM suspects to see if they were interested, and what we came up…
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