Die Krupps with Nitzer Ebb “The Machineries of Joy” 1989. 12″ EP/Maxi-Single. Side A has two mixes of “The Machineries of Joy” – the Wahre-Arbeit Mix and the Die Krupps Mix. Side B has a third mix, the True Work Mix, and “Join the Rhythm of Machines,” which is pretty much yet another mix of “The Machineries of Joy.”

Industrial dance, synth and metallic percussion, mashed up by the German industrial metal band Die Krupps and the gothy British electro-industrial EBM group Nitzer Ebb (whose founders initially clicked by their shared interest in “witchcraft, talking to trees and collecting runestones”). The mixes of “The Machineries of Joy” are themselves covers of Die Krupps’ 1981 single “Wahre Arbeit Wahrer Lohn;” my favorite mix is the “True Work Mix.” All highly hypnotic and violently danceable.