''Cheesy'' is a solo album by

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and

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. It was released on August 31, 1993, on TVT.

History

Six tracks were recorded in Hamburg, Germany, with

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and KMFDM's then-engineer Blank Fontana: "Cum", "Gypsy Queen", "Ich Bin", "Rule the Mob", "Granola", "Outro", and "The Past Is Beyond Recovery". These tracks would have composed En Esch's half of the KMFDM album ''Apart''.

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rejected Esch's tracks for not sounding enough like KMFDM. Instead,

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added additional songs and remixes to those he had recorded for ''Apart'' and changed the name of the album to ''

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''. The rest of the tracks for what was initially called ''Cheesy Fun''KMFDM Newsletter #4, 1992 were recorded later in various locations to fill out what then became Esch's solo album. The track "Ich Bin" was sampled and used in the

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song "Alles Ist Mein" on the album '' Fook''.

Track listing

Personnel

–

vocals Singing is the art of creating music with the voice. It is the oldest form of musical expression, and the human voice can be considered the first musical instrument. The definition of singing varies across sources. Some sources define sing ...

, programming,

guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

(1, 2, 8),

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

(2, 4, 5, 9, 10),

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

(8, 9, 12), keyboards (9),

harp The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. Harps can be made and played in various ways, standing or sitting, and in orchestras or ...

(9),

engineering Engineering is the practice of using natural science, mathematics, and the engineering design process to Problem solving#Engineering, solve problems within technology, increase efficiency and productivity, and improve Systems engineering, s ...

(2, 6, 8, 9),

production Production may refer to: Economics and business * Production (economics) * Production, the act of manufacturing goods * Production, in the outline of industrial organization, the act of making products (goods and services) * Production as a stat ...

, mixing, digital editing, artwork *

– guitars (3–5, 7, 10–12), programming (7, 10, 12), vocals (3)

Additional personnel

*Bibi Abel – vocals (4, 7) *Bernadette – vocals (6) *Blank Fontana – programming (10), engineering (3–5, 7, 10–12) *Greg Frey – engineering (9) *Monika Georg – vocals (3) *Mandra Gora – programming (2, 8), vocals (2, 8), percussion (8) *Rob Hagopian –

bass Bass or Basses may refer to: Fish * Bass (fish), various saltwater and freshwater species Wood * Bass or basswood, the wood of the tilia americana tree Music * Bass (sound), describing low-frequency sound or one of several instruments in th ...

(1) *Sean Joyce – vocals (1), programming (1), production (1), mixing (1) *

– digital editing, artwork *Andre Meyer – vocals (4) *Sande Satoskar – programming (1), engineering (1), production (1), mixing (1) *Jacques Sehy – cover photo *Christine Siewert – vocals (12) *Sanne Sprenger – vocals (2, 8) *Liisa Vihma – vocals (3, 11) *

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– guitar (9) * Andrew Weiss – bass (9), keyboards (9), percussion (9), engineering (9), production (9), mixing (9)

References

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