Author: Anneke

Tropenkoller 86-88

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Karl-Marx-Stadt (now Chemnitz) was one of the GDR’s subcultural hubs in the late 1970s and 80s. The industrial city in Saxony produced an impressively wide informal cultural programme beyond state structures. Bands such as Die Gehirne, Knut Baltz Formation, Die Arroganten Sorben, Kartoffelschälmaschine, AG Geige or the projects of cassette label klangFarBe created a complex artistic environment, in which Tropenkoller ran its spiritual exercises from 1986 to 1989…
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Der Expander des Fortschritts – Urknall · Horde · Mensch

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Der Expander des Fortschritts was founded in 1986. The “risk group” described itself as “pop musique concrète” or “abstract pop”. Der Expander des Fortschritts relied ondisharmony and ruptures, which resulted in radio plays in a song format; the GDR as areal-socialist satire provided its material. Even the band’s name was a culturalappropriation of the superstructure by the substructure: “progress” was a fetishized word in the GDR…
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GDR Undergroundtapes 1980-1990

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sold outtapetopia is a series of releases based on cassettes from East Germany’s 80s underground, particularly from the East Berlin Mauerstadt music scene, featuring original layouts and track lists. For over 30 years after their initial “release” the music on these tapes was neither available on vinyl nor CD, but they were important statements in the canon of the GDR subculture. Despite the miniscule number of original cassettes in circulation…

Johannes Baader – Revelation / Enthüllung

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sold outJohannes Baader’s text Enthüllung was published in 1919 in his Handbuch des Oberdada aka as Buch des Weltfriedens, a reaction to the Treaty of Versailles of that same year. In the text Baader assesses the position of psychiatrists in the grave political situation of the period by eloquently comparing them to the guardians of enchanted castles…

Last available copies of Slowscan’s Fluxus 60th Anniversary box

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Slowscan Vol. 58 is a collection of 10 recordings of varying length released on cassette in a hand made and silkscreened box. Produced in celebration of the 60th anniversary of Fluxus the box not only holds a treasure of recordings of leading Fluxus artists but is also a fine piece of work itself. Apart from the 10 cassettes the box contains four inserts, one…

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