Real name: Dr. Ralf Schreiber

Effective period / Period of releases: 2020

The-Dept. aka The Department of Reconstruction and Dematerialization is the melodic and danceable opposition to the omnipresent warble-bards of our time. Let's listen and think to music! Sounds exhausting? It's not with The-Dept.! With harmonious arcs of tension, multi-leveled texts and mechanical-hypnotic (dance floor) structures, many social, technological and political alterations can be explored in their non-conformist songs. But they come light and sensitive, with memorable melodies in a harmonious construct. This is how The-Dept. interlaces numerous electronic elements from different epochs on several levels. For too long we had to listen to preset-loops, instant low-level-"compositions" and awful pseudo content - usually paired with intellectual incapability. The-Dept. just can't take it anymore: EBM is a call for action, pop is for everyone ... EBM Neo Pop.