current_members website associated_acts years_active alias label article_title background genre origin name
robert de la carignan sat w. ford denis wooty http://www.myspace.com/otv1876 -lsb- half moon dragster -rsb- http://www.last.fm/music/e-bulbe/mansion e-bulbe -rsb- À la vollgas -lsb- http://www.discogs.com/artist/half+moon+dragster 1984 present otv of tanz victims otv1876 bunker records ... of tanz victims
 group_or_band electro experimental electronica montreal , quebec , canada ... of tanz victims
... of tanz victims

... of tanz victims is a canadian musical group that was formed in 1984 in montreal , quebec .
band members include robert de la carignan , a.k.a. robert mailloux -lrb- guitar , bass , vocals -rrb- , denis wooty , a.k.a. dany wauthy and roy batty -lrb- synthesizers , drum machine , vocals -rrb- and sat w. ford , a.k.a. stefan figiel and stephan faulkner -lrb- sampling , percussion , vocals -rrb- .
otv 's primary musical style is electronic , and they make extensive use of analog synthesizers , found sounds , field recordings , tape loops , and audio clips from films .
when electronic samplers became affordable in the mid-1980s , otv was one of the first independent bands in the montreal region to use digital sampling equipment -lrb- ensoniq mirage , e-mu , etc. -rrb- .
however , contrary to popular belief , their music is not totally electronically generated using synthesizers and samplers .
guitarist robert de la carignan produced many of the sounds using different guitar techniques , including prepared guitar , electro-acoustic and contemporary experimentalism in order to achieve his distinctive style .
although otv 's sound has been influenced by british industrial groups such as psychic tv , cabaret voltaire , throbbing gristle and spk , their music is varied ; some of the different genres that they cover include ambient , avant-garde , experimental , hard dance and techno .
non-linear and hard to classify , each new release is an exploration of a different musical genre and each album a foray into a different style .
otv has not only been influenced by other music , but by artistic and literary movements including constructivism , hermeticism , bauhaus , surrealism , the beat generation , cut-up , pop art , as well as the occult and secret societies , reflecting upon the great interest in architecture , painting and literature of band members .
titles for different tracks take their inspiration from works by such people as aleister crowley , william s. burroughs , andy warhol , robert anton wilson , h. p. lovecraft , philip k. dick , albert speer , salvador dalí and andré breton .
otv also recognize the european nouvelle vague movement in cinema as an oblique influence on their music .
they use film excerpts by directors such as fellini , tarkovsky , herzog , kubrick , hitchcock , antonioni and godard in their tracks , while also trying to capture the cinematic ambience of their favorite films in their music .
in recent years , otv 's members have branched out into the musical groups À la vollgas , e-bulbe and half moon dragster , and are producing music for short films , documentaries , video games , television , doing re-mixing and mastering and creating personal musical projects .
... of tanz victims are still actively recording together and are slated to release an ep sometime in 2008 .
