Various Artists / Klangfarbe: German Democratic Republic Tape Music 1983-1987 [2016]
[Label: Mannequin | Cat#: MNQ 076]
- Frank Bretschneider – Dunkler Raum (1:24)
- Frank Bretschneider – Im Kopf (2:25)
- Frank Bretschneider – Nun Mach Dich (1:18)
- Frank Bretschneider – Lauf Ralf (2:27)
- Frank Bretschneider – Erika (2:35)
- Frank Bretschneider – Radio, Radio (2:34)
- Frank Bretschneider – Die Meinung Der Fische Zur Pfanne (2:31)
- Frank Bretschneider – Weg Hier (2:07)
- Frank Bretschneider – Dirigent (2:13)
- Kriminal Tanzkapelle – Lola Is Tot (2:36)
- Kriminal Tanzkapelle – Klatschmohn (3:51)
- Kriminal Tanzkapelle – ACLP (4:27)
- Kriminal Tanzkapelle – Verena (8:30)
- Stein Im Brett – Discoball (1:52)
- Stein Im Brett – Gummi Arabicum (2:01)
- Stein Im Brett – Tanzstunde (2:24)
- Stein Im Brett – Maiwölfe (3:41)
- Stein Im Brett – Reinfall (4:16)
- Stein Im Brett – Promotor (2:48)
- Stein Im Brett – Konversation (2:34)
- AG Geige – Yachtclub & Buchteln (5:09)
- AG Geige – Elektrische Banane (2:54)
- AG Geige – Eine Frikadelle (2:57)
- AG Geige – Die Waldschleiereule (2:54)
- AG Geige – Glückliche Reise (4:36)
- AG Geige – Schnitz (2:13)
5 comments
thank u
This is some pretty strange stuff, does anyone know who these people are?
German artist Bretschneider is best known as the founder of Raster-Noton, one of experimental electronic music’s key outlets. But before he ran Raster-Noton, Bretschneider had another label called klangFarBe, which he started in 1985 in the East German city of Chemnitz (then known as Karl-Marx-Stadt). Owing to the communist GDR’s chokehold on arts and culture, all eight of klangFarBe’s releases of minimal wave-esque music were released secretively, in very limited runs. The label remained relatively out of reach even after German reunification—only AG Geige’s 1987 album Yachtclub + Buchteln was given a reissue, back in 1998.
According to Juno Plus, German Democratic Republic Tape Music 1983-1987 features selections from that Geige tape, along with Bretschneider’s Scombermix—the first release on klangFarBe—Stein Im Brett’s Vater Alfons Erzählt from 1986 and Kriminelle Tanzkapelle’s Glückliche Jahre from 1985.
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wow… awesome!