2024

Alex Braun

- Der Gedankensammler (February, 16th 2024)

- Der Gedankensammler (Rob Dust Club Remix) (February, 28th 2024)

- Dreamland (March, 1st 2023)

- Projekt Ich - “Don't Wake Up" (feat. Alex Braun) (September, 27th 2024)

- Alex Braun & Rob Dust - "25 years" (October, 4th 2024)

Arsine Tibé

- Here We Are (Vampires & Ghosts) (June, 14th 2024)

- Projekt Ich - Kosmonaut (feat. Arsine Tibé (October, 31st 2024) 

- The Copy (feat. Frecuencias Ocultas (November, 15th 2024)

The Grab Society

- Room (Raum) (January, 26th 2024)

- Room (Remixed) (March, 22nd 2024)

- Free (Gratis) (August, 2nd 2024)

- Free (Remixed) (October, 4th 2024)

- VA Sonic Seducer - DEPECHE MODE Edition - "Painkiller" (November 2024)

- Eternal (Ewig) (feat. Annabelle) (December 13th 2024)

The Independent Seasons 

- The Lifelines in the Old Northern Cemetery (May, 3rd 2024)

- Playing with the Past (July, 19th 2024)

- Silent Avantgarde (August, 30th 2024)

- Slow Coach (October, 11th 2024)

DEMOKRATIE

VA - electropop.80s incl. DEMOKRATIE's "Living a Boy's Adventure Tale (2024 extended version)" (a-ha cover) (August, 30th 2024)

2023

March, 3rd 2023

Elektrostaub release Mantis (feat. Stefan Netschio). Among others this EP includes two previously unreleased !distain remixes of "The Day She Died" & "2806".

June, 2nd 2023

The "Super Deluxe Fan Bundle" of "electropop.25" contains !distain - Wer Im Kreise Geht (Cyborgdrive remix) & Elektrostaub (feat. !distain) - Birthday and Death (Cyborgdrive remix) on the Promotional Bonus-CD-R 1.

Solo- & Side-Project releases

Alex Braun

- Neon Space Men - "Follow Me - Into The Club" incl. Alex Braun's  remix of the title track (January, 20th 2023)

- VA - Synthetic. Facts. One incl. "Algorithm" (June, 2nd 2023)

- VA - electropop.web 1  incl. "Tomorrow" (September, 4th 2023)

- Traumfänger (October, 20th 2023)

- The Room Of Silence (December, 8th 2023)

Arsine Tibé

- Wenn der Regen sich verneigt (feat. Projekt Ich) (October, 6th 2023)

- Dark Monday (feat. Frecuencias Ocultas) (November, 10th 2023)

- We Came To Fail (November, 24th 2023)

DEMOKRATIE

- Opaque (February, 10th 2023)

- Instrumental Imperative (Volume I) (April, 14th 2023)

- Instrumental Imperative (Volume II) (June, 9th 2023)

- The Grab Society - Underrated (Remixed) incl. "Underrated (extended DEMOKRATIE remix)" (July, 14th 2023)

- Instrumental Imperative (Volume III) (August, 4th 2023)

- VA - electropop.depeche mode incl. "And Then..." (August, 8th 2023)

- Instrumental Imperative (Volume IV) (September, 15th 2023)

- VA - HIGHER LOVE - Tribute Compilation to DEPECHE MODE, Dave Gahan and Martin L. Gore incl. DEMOKRATIE's version of "Oberkorn (It’s a small town)" (October, 13th 2023)

The Grab Society

- Outsider (April, 28th 2023)

- Outsider (Remixed) (May, 12th 2023)

- VA - electropop.25 incl. "Outsider (Oren Amram Remix Edit)" (August, 8th 2023)

- Underrated (Unterschätzt) (June, 23rd 2023)

- Underrated (Remixed) (July, 14th 2023)

2022

Solo- & Side-Project releaes

Arsine Tibé

- Meditation II (February, 25th 2022)

- Meditation III (September, 30th 2022)

DEMOKRATIE

- Speed Fight Date – Recession (March, 25th 2022)

- 4 + 1  (May, 20th 2022)

- Frecuencias Ocultas - Global Remixes 2 (incl. a DEMOKRATIE remix of "Debilidad") (August, 16th 2022)

- (the extended) Recession (August, 19th 2022)

Catastrophe Ballet 

- The Malberg Tapes (1987 - 1990) 

release date: October, 28th 2022 

Catastrophe Ballet was formed by Eric Burton & Manfred Thomaser in 1987.

2021

March, 5th 2021

Alfa matrix release Elektrostaub's new EP "We are dreamers" including the brand new song "Loneliness" feat. !distain. 

November, 21st 2021

Alfa matrix publish the new Elektrostaub-album "Reliance". Among others it features !distain on three songs. 

December, 27th 2021

Elektrostaub's album "Reliance" reaches position 1 at the GEWC (German Electronic Web Charts). 

Solo- & Side-Project releases 

Alex Braun

reCOVER (July, 16th 2021)

Arsine Tibé

- Voyage Now (feat. Sebastian and the dream) (March, 26th 2021)

- (previously unreleased) archive songs III (April, 23rd 2021)

- VA - "Grenzwellen neun" (this compilation contains Arsine Tibé's exclusive composition "Bernstein") (May, 7th 2021)

- I'm Your Blues (feat. Sebastian and the dream) (May, 14th 2021)

- Lovers & Dancers (feat. Sebastian and the dream) (June, 18th 2021)

- Beyond Border - "Pry Open" (feat. JanRevolution) incl. an Arsine Tibé mix of the title track (July, 6th 2021)

- VA - Sonic Seducer - Cold Hands Seduction Vol. 230 contains the exclusive "Sonic Seducer Edit" of Arsine Tibé's song "Die Gesellschaft" (feat. Oren Amram) (July, 13th 2021)

- Meditation I (September, 3rd 2021)

DEMOKRATIE

- Ice Fall (October, 15th 2021)

- Perform & Consume (October, 29th 2021)

- The Lookout (Seyhan III) (November, 26th 2021)

The Independent Seasons

- Family Pics (February, 22nd 2021)

- Songs from the Core Kit III (March, 1st 2021)

2020

February, 16th 2020

conzoom records release "electropop 16". The compilation contains !distain's exclusive "80s" remix of Boytronic's "Can't Wait A Second".

March, 6th 2020

CREMATORY release their album "Unbroken" including a cover version of the distain! song "Like The Tides"! A limited edition contains "Like The Tides" feat. !distain on a bonus disc.

March, 20th 2020

The download edition of Boytronic's "The Robot Treatment Remix Pack Piece Of Entertainment and Dancing Wild for You" includes a previously unreleased !distain remix of "Can't Wait A Second"!

May, 22nd 2020

Area DB release Arsine Tibé's lonplayer "An Ambience Of Dying III".

July, 31st 2020

conzoom records release "electropop 17". The compilation contains the !distain remix of "Change" (Arriega Beats feat. Manfred Thomaser). The limited edition "Super Deluxe Fan Bundle" of the compilation contains the !distain song "Inside​-​Out" (feat. Oren Amram & Baruch Friedland) for the very first time on cd, too.

September, 26th 2020

AreaDB publish Arsine Tibé's "(previously unreleased) Archive Songs I". The album enters the GEWC (German Electronic Web Charts), and peaks at #8.

November 16th, 2020

ScentAir Records publish Scarlet Soho's "Programmed To Perfection (Best Of And Rarities)".

This 2CD contains two !distain remixes done for Scarlet Soho: "Gigolo" & "In Cold Blood"

November, 20th 2020

AreaDB release Arsine Tibé's "(previously unreleased) Archive Songs II".

December, 4th 2020

Various Artists - Trans​-​Global Excess Vol 1

This compilation contains the exclusive The Independent Seasons song "The Visitor".

Middle of December 2020

Various Artists -  Subkultur Family & Friends Part One

This compilation includes the previously unreleased "Orchestral Mix" of !distain's "A Million Engines" by AlienNation.

[picture credits: Barbara Andres]

2019

January, 14th "Farewell To The Past" reaches #1 at the GEWC 

(German Electronic Web Charts).

April, 15th 2019 "Wer im Kreise geht" enters the GEWC Single-Charts at #8 

(highest position #4).

May, 6th 2019 "Wer im Kreise geht" enters the DAC (German Alternative Charts) at #19.

May, 17th release of Projekt Ich's single  "Thanks" (feat. !distain). The album ("By Train Through Countries") including "Thanks" follows September, 6th.

May, 31st release of another solo-album by Manfred Thomaser: 

The Independent Seasons - "Songs from the Core Kit II".

June, 28th release of the Arriega Beats single "Change" (feat. Manfred Thomaser).

On September 6th !distain return on stage in Hoyerswerda ("Das Boot") with a brand new line-up: Alex Braun, Manfred Thomaser & Oliver Faig.

The next day !distain travel to Berlin to support Boytronic at ORWOhaus. More October tour-dates follow: Hannover (12th), Leipzig (18th), Nürnberg (25th), and Munich (26th).

November, 8th Alex Braun releases the single "Cambodia / Karl der Käfer" via echozone. November, 22nd Alex Braun's EP "Chasing Cars" follows.

(picture credits: MK_Concert_Photos)

2018

In July 2018 the single "Birthday and Death (Elektrostaub feat. !distain) peaks at #4 of the GEWC. August, 31st sees the release of !distain's brand new single "SynthPopBoy".

September, 10th "SynthPopBoy" enters the GEWC (German Electronic Web Charts) at position 2 & the DAC (Deutsche Alternative Charts) at #9. October, 5th echozone releases the !distain single "Maid Of Freedom".

October, 8th "SynthPopBoy" peaks at #1 of the DAC. November, 2nd echozone releases the brand new !distain longplayer "Farewell To The Past". On November, 5th "Maid Of Freedom" enters the GEWC at position 4 (highest position #2). 

November, 12th "Farewell To The Past" enters the GEWC at position 7. The album also enters the DAC at #7, too.

[picture credits: Barbara Andres]

2017

July, 21st 2017 Elektrostaub releases the debut single "Unforgotten" which contains the !distain remix of the title track. Elektrostaub's debut-album ("Birthday and Death") follows November, 17th 2017 containing five songs feat. !distain.

2016

January, 10th 2016 sees "December" - the fourth single taken from "Rainbow Skies At Night" - on top of the GEWC. On July, 1st ScentAir Records & echozone release the !distain 2cd compilation "The Archive Collection 1992 - 2016".

[picture credits: Trigger-Zone]

2015

On February, 20th echozone publish the single "A Million Engines" (#5 DAC / #3 GEWC) which is followed by the album "Rainbow Skies At Night" on May, 18th. The longplayer enters the DAC at #8 and the GEWC at #3 (highest position #2). The third single "Gunfires" becomes another chart hit (#13 DAC / #2 GEWC). July, 24th !distain play a concert to open the "Amphi festival". After four most productive years, Rick Prokein leaves !distain by the end of 2015.

2014

!distain support And One while their Munich concert ("Backstage" / April, 5th) and play a show at the „Wave-Gotik-Treffen“ (Leipzig). November 14th the band returns with the new single "Where In This World" (feat. Elektrostaub). It announces the release of the seventh studio-album "Rainbow Skies At Night". "Where In This World" becomes a top ten hit at the DAC (#6) and GEWC (#5).

[picture credits: Tigger-Zone]

2013

September 13th !distain start their Special Edition series with „America". Over the forthcoming months, all six studio records and their singles are re-released as digital downloads via echozone. Each re-release contains a bunch of previously unreleased recordings taken from the band’s archive. The years including „25 Frames A Second“ and „Raise The Level“ for instance, give birth to 40 recordings formerly unknown to the public.

2012

"monokultur" enters the GEWC (German Electronic Webcharts) and the DAC (Deutsche Alternative Charts) in the beginning of 2012. The new !distain hit climbs to #5 (GEWC) and #9 (DAC). After their great success with "monokultur" !distain release a special fan edition of "monokultur" via echozone. The new single contains four brand new and exclusive remixes.

On June, 15th echozone release the !distain single “the 6th floor / instructed by the devil”. The double-a-side becomes the next hit-release and enters the DAC (#14) and the GEWC (#7), too.

On September, 14th the band’s first ever live e.p. “live in cologne” sees the light of day. The 4-track-recording provides a first impression of the concert !distain filmed and recorded in October 2011 at the “Alter Wartesaal” in Cologne. The concert film is to be released with the forthcoming dvd “20th anniversary".

November and December 2012 see !distain on tour with And One. After their 2012 concerts in Kiev, Regensburg, Hoyerswerda, Eisenhüttenstadt und Augsburg !distain open And One’s "THE S.T.O.P. FULLTIMESHOW 2012“ in all nine german cities.

[picture credits: Barbara Andres]

2011

!distain's sixth studio-longplayer is to be released May, 13th, 2011. The album title is: "on/off". The band's new label partner is echozone. On April, 15th, !distain release the single "mein weg". This track enters the GEWC (German Electronic Webcharts) soon (highest position #8). The second single is "why (bootlicking hypocrites)" (release date: June, 10th 2011).

In November Rick Prokein is officially announced as a !distain band member. Rick, who is no stranger to the fans, has appeared as keyboardist and percussionist in !distain's live line-up since 2005. In 2010 he contributed the vocals to "Hole In The Moon" and also excels himself as the lead voice of the next !distain single "monokultur" (December 9th 2011).

2010

On January, 15th, !distain release the double-album "Anthology 1992 - 2010". At the end of February the band presents the new video-clip "Hole In The Moon". On March, 11th, the "Anthology" enters the Top 5 of the DAC (German Alternative Charts).

2009

!distain are working on their next release, the 2cd "Anthology 1992 - 2010" and play five concerts in Germany.

2008

Gravitator Records releases "Raise The Level" in January in Russia. The "Russian Edition" contains a previously unreleased remix of "Recruit My Soul". January, 25th sees the release of "Mandragore" - the first single-cd from "Raise The Level". "Mandragore" becomes a top-ten-hit in the the German Alternative Charts (DAC) - highest position 9. Later on !distain play live in Moscow and Bratislava.

[picture credits: Barbara Andres]

2007

the beginning of the year welcomes two new songs featuring !distain: "Never" (Virtual Server - "Setup") and "History Forecast" (Chinese Theatre - "Voices And Machines"). Two !distain remixes appear: Camouflage ("We Are Lovers") and Essexx ("Chromatics").

The new 2cd album "Raise The Level" is released September, 14th.

2006

the new album "Synthphony REMIXed: !distain" is to be released on March, 3rd. The band plays concerts in Munich, Hamburg and Madrid.

2005

!distain play live in Moscow. The band works on the release of the remix-album and on new songs.

2004

in February, !distain are back live on stage; the second single is released, "sex'n'cross". It becomes a no.1 hit in the Sideline charts; the release of the new album "25 frames a second" follows in March.

2003

in February, Oliver Faig and Sebastian von Wyschetzki separate from the band to start a new project, frontman Alexander Braun continues distain! together with Manfred Thomaser as duo. Going back to the musical roots of the band, they develope their unique distain!-style and suprise with a bunch of new modern-retro synth-recordings.

September, 15th, 2003: Release of the Single "america".

2002

in February, singer Alexander Brown and Manfred Thomaser start writing new songs.

in Autumn the first demo-cd arrives at Chrom records. More new songs are recorded, Braun/Thomaser meet with the label in Berlin.

[picture credits: Joerg Grosse Geldermann]

1999

"Homesick Alien" - Tour & "Tears of Joy ep" (incl. Remixes by Gareth Jones)

1998

"Homesick Alien"

1997

"Liquid" - Tour & "Dancing In The Dark"- Festival Berlin

1996

"Liquid" (album release concert at Live Music Hall, Cologne); AIDS-Benefiz Headliner at the CSD, Gütersloh

1995

"Confession E.P." and "Cement Garden"; "Confession" - Tour

1994

first public appearance: "Pop Albert" Contest Augsburg; first record deal with Chrom Records

1992

Band foundation by Alexander Braun, Oliver Faig and Sebastian von Wyschetzki.

[picture credits: Fred Stichnoth}