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Disco Inferno (band)

Disco Inferno were an English experimental rock band active in the late 1980s and the 1990s. Initially a trio of guitar, bass, and drums performing in an identifiable post-punk style, the band soon pioneered a dynamic use of digital sampling in addition to standard rock instruments.[2] While commercially unsuccessful during their existence, the band is considered to be a key post-rock act.[3][4]

Disco Inferno

D.I.

Essex, England

1989–1995

Ian Crause
Paul Willmott
Rob Whatley
Daniel Gish

Subsequent projects[edit]

Ian Crause[edit]

After the split, Ian Crause formed Floorshow who recorded some material for an unreleased album which was to be called The Vertical Axis. Some of these songs later appeared on his solo singles in the early 2000s ("Elemental" and "Head Over Heels"), which featured drummer Ritchie Thomas (Dif Juz, The Jesus and Mary Chain). Crause would then spend the best part of a decade away from music and eventually left the UK to move to Bolivia.


Crause returned to music in mid-2012 with a track called "More Earthly Concerns", which resurrected Disco Inferno's sample-heavy textured approach and was released via various blogs. This was followed in November 2012 by "The Song of Phaethon", a long-form single release on Bandcamp inspired by both Greek mythology and British involvement in the Second Gulf War. Several other tracks ("The Vertical Axis", "Suns May Rise", "Black Light", and "A World of Ghosts") were released on Bandcamp in early 2013. Crause's long-delayed debut solo album, The Vertical Axis (also a Bandcamp release) followed in December 2013.

Paul Wilmott[edit]

Paul Wilmott formed Transformer, who recorded a cover of Wire's "Outdoor Miner", which appeared on the Wire tribute album, Whore (1996). He would later play in the short-lived London Records-signed trip hop band Lisp.

(Ché, July 1991)

Open Doors, Closed Windows

(Rough Trade, February 1994)

D. I. Go Pop

(Rough Trade, July 1996)

Technicolour

Disco Inferno on Facebook

Starbound – Flash-based Disco Inferno site

on Bandcamp

Ian Crause

Interview with Ian Crause (in English and Spanish translated version)