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Munich darkwave and minimal-EBM act Rue Oberkampf collect eight single-era tracks on “The Singles 2018-2026”, a retrospective issued on 9 July 2026 through Young and Cold Records. The set appears as a limited hand-numbered edition of 666 copies on both CD and LP, with a digital version on Bandcamp.

What Rue Oberkampf gathered on ‘The Singles 2018-2026’

The compilation runs to eight tracks: “Eternity”, “Eiszeit”, “Solitude”, “I Won’t Surrender (Brutal Edit)”, “Negativraum”, “Sans Toi”, “Deine Augen” and “Never Stop to Dance”. The music and lyrics are credited to Rue Oberkampf. Geistha mixed tracks one to four, seven and eight, Daniel Hallhuber mixed “Negativraum”, and Eric Van Wonterghem mastered the release. The cover design is by merchbabe.

Two of the tracks first appeared as standalone singles. “Sans Toi” was released in 2019 on Circonstances Aggravantes, and “Negativraum” arrived in 2021 as the band’s first single for Ant-Zen, reviewed at the time by Side-Line in Rue Oberkampf – Negativraum (Single – Ant-Zen). Those singles were built on hardware rather than software, an approach the band described to Side-Line in 2020. “Our music definitely is inspired by vintage electronics and analogue gear,” Damien said at the time, listing a Korg MS20, an Arp Odyssey and a DSI Pro-2 among the studio’s core instruments.

The CD and LP are limited to 666 hand-numbered copies with no repress, sold through Young and Cold Records and Bandcamp, where the vinyl and CD are listed alongside the digital download.

About Rue Oberkampf

Rue Oberkampf formed in Germany in 2016. Despite the French band name, taken from the Paris metro station and street named after the naturalized German industrialist Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf, the project began in southern Germany as a trio: vocalist Julia De Jouy, Damien on synthesizers and sequencing, and Michael on drum programming and arrangement. The three started by releasing digital singles made with analogue gear, and recorded between a home studio in Passau, a second room in Munich and the Young and Cold Records studio in Augsburg run by Daniel Hallhuber and Marcel Leidenroth.

An early cover of Absolute Body Control‘s “Melting Away”, retitled “Le Train”, drew wider attention after Dirk Ivens shared the video. The band issued the EP “Waveclash” on No Emb Blanc in 2018 and the single “Sans Toi” on Circonstances Aggravantes in 2019, then released the debut album “Christophe-Philippe” on Young and Cold Records at the end of 2019, a record that mixed minimal electro-wave and EBM. The 2021 single “Negativraum”, backed with “Caméra – Doom Version”, marked the band’s move onto Ant-Zen. Further releases followed, among them the albums “Essenz” and “Liebe”. The band also appeared on European stages, including the two-day Death Disco Athens Open Air Festival 2023.

“The Singles 2018-2026” draws that catalogue together, pairing the Ant-Zen and Circonstances Aggravantes single sides with later tracks in one hand-numbered edition for Young and Cold Records, out on 9 July 2026.

Bernard - Side-Line Staff

Chief editor of Side-Line – which basically means I spend my days wading through a relentless flood of press releases from labels, artists, DJs, and zealous correspondents. My job? Strip out the promo nonsense, verify what’s actually real, and decide which stories make the cut and which get tossed into the digital void. Outside the news filter bubble, I’m all in for quality sushi and helping raise funds for Ukraine’s ongoing fight against the modern-day axis of evil. Besides music I’m also an SEO and AI content flow specialist and have an interest in everything finance from stocks to crypto. There is music in everything!

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