Xotox

Xotox was founded as a solo-project by Andreas Davids. The Xotox-sound is adequately described by himself as “industrial for hyperactive people”. The albums “Stueckgut”, “Epos” and “Monolith” developed a small cult. With the release of “Disinhibition”,Xotox started performing live around Germany, winning more fans and attracting media attention for the first time. The following albums “Normalzustand: angst” and “Rhythm of fear (live in Jena)” got a variety of great reviews. “Silberfieber” and “Nothing” were released featuring the hits “Eisenkiller”, “Nothing”, “Null” and “Zweischicht”, which went on heavy rotation in many clubs in Germany. Both releases had this success resulted in Xotox being picked up by industrial label Pronoize, which in turn led to xotox getting a much higher profile in part through their contributions to high profile compilations put together by the german scene magazin Orkus. In 2003 the first album on pronoize was released – “Lichtlos” managed to establish itself on nearly every german dancefloor. “Eisenkiller” became the club anthem of winter 2003/04 and “Lichtlos” the benchmark album. For the very first time an industrial-act managed to reach number 1 in the german alternative charts (dac)and held on to the top spot for several weeks. In 2004 the follow-up to “Lichtlos” was released also on Pronoize. “Die unruhe” contained 15 new tracks, including the clubhits “Nasse waende” and “Mechanische unruhe” as well as several remixes. “Die unruhe” sold out before the actual release date just on account of the pre-orders. „[psi]” was released as a jewel-case-edition and as a special limited double-cd-edition in a digipack. “[psi]” reached pos. 2 in the dac. In 2006 Xotox released the first live-album called “Dokumentation 1: ton” (limited to 1000 pcs.) In 2008 “In den zehn morgen” was released. The album contains many club-hits , such as “Ewig”, “Habitat”, “Grob fahrlaessig” or “Keine ruhe vor dem sturm”. “In den zehn morgen” was released both in standard jewel-case format and as a limited box set, which contains the bonus cd “Early recordings”. The box set is strictly limited to 1000, each numbered by hand. “In den zehn morgen” reached number 1 in the german alternative charts (dac) and held on to the top spot for 6 weeks in a row and it reached also position 4 in the DAC “Top50 of the year 2008”. In May „Hyperactive – the best of“ was released as an exclusive north-america-release by Vendetta music (under licence of Pronoize). This release contains all clubhits and 2 previously unreleased tracks. Then,in 2009 the split-ep “We are deaf” with Detune-x was released in September on the italian label Rustblade as a guest appearance and by courtesy of Pronoize. “We are deaf” was released as a standard jewel-case version and as a limited box set. “Die unruhe 2.0“ was released on march, 19th as a re-release of „Die unruhe“ wich was originally released in 2004. „Die unruhe 2.0“ contains all original tracks plus two previously unreleased tracks with „You can´t hurt me“ and „The punisher“, which stem from the same session. This release is adequately announced as „the return of the original… often imitated but never equalled!“ In 2012 XOTOX celebrates 10 years of „Eisenkiller“ with an EP which is especially produced for „Eisenkiller“, because even after 10 years „Eisenkiller“ is still a must for every dancefloor. This EP does not only include the original track from 2002, it also contains remixes by BAHNTIER, AUTOCLAV1.1, AFTER WHITE SMOKE and JEAN BACH as well as „digitale Demenz“ a previously unreleased (and officially unfinished) track from 2008. As a special bonus there are included two demo-versions „Schwanengesang“and „Notwehr“ , exclusive previews for the upcoming album. This EP is strictly limited to 1000 pcs. and 300 pcs. will be released as a special fan-edition which contains a hand-numbered (punched) rusty metalplate with logo ! Andreas is also a sought after dj on the electro, industrial and noise scene.