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VNV United states, which stands for Victory Not Retribution, is an industrial music group from London which combines elements of electronic body music (EBM), Industrial music and synthpop into what they call for futurepop. A members come Ronan Harris and Mark Jackson.
History
A class action's 1st album, Advance & Watch, was discharged around 1995. This was the mixture of danceable synthesizer melodies and coarse electronic beats firmly in the tradition of middle-era EBM, supplemented using elements of orchestral music. Their next release, 1998's Praise the Fallen, continued largely therein vein, & it began to enjoy the big degree of commercial profits.
1999's Empires was their breakthrough album, gaining them far flung commercial profits (topping the German DAC stock & index charts for vii weeks) and most individual-single-handed spawning a genre of similar creative person. When in the vein of their former deuce works, Empires expanded a turgid synthesizer lines & incorporated tighter song organization sustaining verses & catchy choruses. Moreover, a coarse 'sheet metal instrumentals' of albums such as Praise A Fallen were largely no further, & a music as a whole was far more complex.
Their 2002 album, Futureperfect, represented a departure within numbers of ways, largely out of EBM & towards synthpop, potentially incorporating a few elements of trance. Moreover, numbers of neoclassic subservient pieces were involved in the album. This shift driven their mainstream popularity to increase however farther, however alienated the select few of their fans world health organization favorite their earliest coarse & darker healthy, leading to a somewhat weakened reputation in the "underground" music community. Still, it start up many extremely successful globe tours within 2002 & 2003, including to the United States, where this genre of music doesn't commonly enjoy great deal commercial profits. A second interesting fact just about a release of Futureperfect is the fact that it was created completely on the computer--there is no devices synthesizers, compressors, or even more contrivance were utilized around its production.
Their latest album, Matter + Form, is available in vinyl and CD.
Discography
Good-length albums & EPs
Person Pulse [out of print and extremely rare] (1990)
Nature and severity of Youth [out of print and extremely rare] (1990)
Advance & Watch [out of print] (1995)
Praise a Fallen (1998)
Solitary [EP] (1998)
Empires (1999)
Standing / Burning Empires [out of print, 2 CD set consisting of the Standing single and an EP featuring remixes of songs from Empires] (2000)
Advance & Watch (v2) [out of print, remastered and extended] (2001)
Futureperfect (2002)
Matter + Form (2005)
Singles
Darkangel (1999)
Standing (2000)
Genesis [two regular versions, Genesis.1 and Genesis.2; and two promotional versions, Genesis.0 and the Radio Edition] (2001)
Darling [two regular versions, Beloved.1 and Beloved.2; a vinyl-only release of trance remixes called Beloved.3; and a promo version, Beloved.0] (2002)
Honour 2003 (2003)
Chrome ([http://www.vnvnation.com/contents/non-static/shop-content.htm internet-released single] from either Matter + Form, 2005)
Other
''Cold (Rated 'R' mix by MiG-29) [ [http://www.vnvnation.com/contents/download/cold_(rated_r_mix_by_mig-29).mp3 web-only download track] ] (2001)
Pastperfect DVD Promo Version (2003) [given away during the 2003 Pastperfect "release" tour]
Pastperfect DVD'' (2004)
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