16-17 (band)
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Basel, Switzerland |
| Genres | punk jazz, industrial, jazzcore |
| Years active | 1983–2000 |
| Labels | Pathological Records, Big Cat, Savageland Records, Virgin, Digital Hardcore Recordings (DHR) |
| Associated acts | God, Ice, Godflesh |
| Members |
Alex Buess Michael Wertmüller Damian Bennett |
| Past members | Knut Remond Markus Kneubühler Daniel Buess Kevin Martin G.C. Green |
16-17 was a band from Basel, Switzerland. Their music combined punk jazz, jazzcore, and industrial music. 16-17 is known as an early precursor of this genre.
16-17 was founded in 1983 by Alex Buess, Knut Remond and Markus Kneubühler. When the group played its first concerts in 1983 it was received with controversial reactions: there where hardly no groups that played in an approximately similar style. Only some years later around 1986 groups like Painkiller, Last Exit or The Flying Luttenbachers appeared . They played a similar mix of rough noise, heavily amplified instruments and free jazz inspired improvisation. 1983 to 1994 the group did a lot of tours and played many gigs all over Europe, Japan and USA. From this period there are three official releases: the cassette Buffbunker and Hardkore , the LP 16-17 (Label Rec Rec) as well as the LP When All Else Fails... (Label Vision/Praxis) These first three productions of the group are exclusively live recordings.
1994 Alex Buess met Kevin Martin during the recording sessions of the group Alboth! for their CD Liebefeld Alex Buess played saxophones on this album as a guest musician and Kevin Martin produced it. This first meeting of Buess and Martin was very important: they both got along very well: they both went similar paths, Kevin with his group GOD and Alex with 16-17. Consequently, 16-17 worked on the production of their first studio album Gyatso. The album was produced by Kevin Martin and G. C. Green (Godflesh) appeared as a guest musician. Kevin Martin said in an interview by Jason Pettigrew (Alternative Press): „I liked the sheer intensity of 16-17`s Early Recordings very much and I intended to increase this intensity by the additional use of studio technology“. He was indeed very successful. The CD found a lot of attention in the international press, the media and the audience.
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