DATHE is an electro-punk collaboration between legendary drummer Dave Barbarossa and synthesizer programmer David Harman.

As part of both Adam and the Ants and Bow Wow Wow, Barbarossa was instrumental in creating the "Tribal" drumming trend that was popular among British and some American bands, circa 1979–1983. The two most famous examples of this style were Bow Wow Wow and Adam and the Ants, but it also included John Lydon's Public Image Ltd., The Cult, and Killing Joke.

The revolutionary Tribal drum sound was heavily influenced by African Burundi drumming and featured backing beats played mostly on the tom-toms instead of traditional rock beats as played on cymbal, kick drum, and snare. This method created a rich, dramatic, and primeval atmosphere that had not previously been employed in a rock context, and was used extensively by post-punk bands of this era. Later bands, such as Jane's Addiction, Korn, Slipknot and many current bands have been influenced by this style.

In the mid-1990s, Barbarossa was in Republica, which had chart success in the UK and America with songs such as "Ready to Go" and "Drop Dead Gorgeous", and then he worked on the Live shows for Chicane, where he met David Harman - Chicane's then studio engineer and programmer.

DATHE is a collaboration between these two minds, driven by a common love of deep, evocative, punky tribal grooves and textures. They are grounded in electro punk, with a faint shimmer of modern trance, but remain hard to categorise into any usual genre... .

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