A particular electricity runs through the Los Angeles underground music scene, where old dreams metamorphose into new shapes, and where an artist like Debra Fogarty can hold court for decades without ever losing her intensity. Founded in 1998, Diva Destruction emerged at a moment when few were willing to merge classical musicianship with the sharper edges of industrial and dark electronic music. Yet Fogarty—trained in piano, fluent in early digital production, and instinctively attuned to emotional candor—was already building the blueprint for a sound that wouldn’t reach full cultural resurgence until decades later. Long before today’s darkwave revival, she was crafting the fusion of expressive keyboards, charged electronics, and unguarded honesty that defined late-90s and early-2000s goth club culture. From the delirium of The Broken Ones to the enduring ache of Enslaved, she shaped an aesthetic that proved both ahead of its time and foundational to the genre’s present momentum. Fogarty has long understood how to turn raw feeling into structure—each track a coded confession, sharpened in cold light yet guided by an unmistakably human pulse.
Now comes the Das Ich remix of All I Want, a meeting of dark electronic music luminaries who thrive in the grander corners of the alternative sphere. Here, legendary German industrial band Das Ich takes Fogarty’s newest single and pushes it into a zone where celebration collides with dramatic escalation. The result is a piece that builds, swells, and reshapes itself with a restless, dance-driven sense of motion.
Fogarty frames the original track as a rare expression of joy, a revelation in itself: “I wrote it about the love of my life. I usually write songs about horrible heartbreak and cruelty, but this song is a real turning point since my life has finally changed so much for the better!” That shift in tone becomes the axis on which the remix spins. Brightness becomes fuel. Strength becomes theatre. Das Ich taps into her melodic confidence and draws out a heavier, more gleaming architecture beneath it, amplifying the contrast between delight and force.
Their shared grounding in classical technique becomes a sly signature, especially when Fogarty proclaims: “Imagine if Beethoven wrote an intense song for the dance floor! Both Diva Destruction and Das Ich are classically trained musicians who joined forces to create a dramatic dance song with the sound of an epic symphony!” The remix answers that challenge with grandeur, but never with excess; it feels like a storm rehearsed, then released at the perfect moment.
Listen to All I Want (Das Ich Remix) below:
There is no rebirth without destruction, and Debra Fogarty has always understood this better than most. The past year has seen her step forward with a renewed and unmistakable force—co-headlining Wave Gotik Treffen’s vast center stage, returning to Los Angeles after two decades to a crowd that had long been waiting for her, and commanding festival audiences in Mexico City and Santiago. These weren’t markers of a comeback but confirmations of continuity: Diva Destruction hadn’t vanished at all. She was gathering strength, consolidating her fire, and choosing the exact moment to strike with precision.
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