Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft (DAF)

D.A.F. (Deutsche Amerikanische FreundschaftNeue) was a music duo originally from Düsseldorf in West Germany. Despite often being associated with the Neue Deutsche Welle (German New Wave) movement, both original members, Gabriel Delgado-López and Robert Görl, deny that their brand of distorted, synth-focused, punk, and disco-inflected experimental music was ever part of NDW. The duo started life at the height of punk in 1978 at the Ratinger Hof in Düsseldorf in with Gabi Delgado-López on stylophone and Robert Görl on drums. From this point they travelled to England to work with legendary synth player, Daniel Miller and his Mute record label. Continuing to develop their synth/punk style they were to work with Conny Plank (who had produced Kraftwerk's 'Autobahn' and Neu!'s eponymous 1975 LP among others). Adding bass, guitars and drums to expand the original duo, DAF split up and went their separate ways in 1982 following the release and success both at home and in the UK of three albums on Virgin Records: 'Alles Its Gut', 'Gold und Liebe', 'Für Immer'. The duo of Görl and Delgado-López reformed briefly in 1985 to produce the more commercial '1st Step to Heaven LP', in which they sang in English. They split again that year, reforming in 2003, only to split in 2015. The duo began touring again subsequently however - making their first ever appearance in the USA in 2019. © ©Copyright Music Story 2020