Gabi Delgado and the French experimental master Marc Hurtado founded the New Global Resistance project back in 2004. The name of the duo suggests it: Delgado allowed the thing to be based on German-American friendship. The two recorded tracks, but did not release the material because they saw the pieces more as a basis for their chosen live shows. As performance music, that is.
A good five years after Delgado’s death, the collected 15 tracks can now be heard on a studio album, and it’s actually like this: you probably won’t get any closer to a DAF album you’ve never heard before. Many pieces sound techno-nostalgic, alongside DAF there is the sound of Liaisons Dangereuses, the project that ex-DAF member Chrislo Haas founded with Beate Bartel in 1981.
The real winner is tracks like “Master,” where Delgado drops his vocals on music influenced by neo-dance punks like LCD Soundsystem. And because their boss James Murphy is a big DAF fan, one can say: a circle has come full circle here.
This review appears in Musikexpress 1/2026.
