compiled by Stefan Schneider
Düsseldorf in the early 1980s. Punk was finished, but its pathos still drifted desolately through pubs and shared flats. At the same time, Synthesizers had become increasingly affordable due to digital electronics, allowing more and more people to make music. This music pushed ahead slightly in order to dock onto the electronic sounds of the 1970s Krautrock scene – no one called it "cosmic music" back in those days. But most chose the detour via records by Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle, Eric Random, Human League or the more unfamiliar experim …
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compiled by Stefan Schneider
Düsseldorf in the early 1980s. Punk was finished, but its pathos still drifted desolately through pubs and shared flats. At the same time, Synthesizers had become increasingly affordable due to digital electronics, allowing more and more people to make music. This music pushed ahead slightly in order to dock onto the electronic sounds of the 1970s Krautrock scene – no one called it "cosmic music" back in those days. But most chose the detour via records by Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle, Eric Random, Human League or the more unfamiliar experimental sounds gathered on a somewhat morbid-looking compilation entitled "The Elephant Table Album". Cassette labels like Klar! 80 with their exciting yellow and black packaged tapes madie it easy to release them and shops like Heartbeat and Pure Freude served as an umbrella for the disparate strands of the electronic side of post punk. Almost all artists on this compilation could be seen frequently there. The cassette generation did not bother about crossing over to pop music. They were pioneers of a music which would later develop into Drone, Ambient or Hypnaogogic.
Release: February 10th, 2017
Tracklist:
01 Konrad Kraft – F
02 Deux Balaines Blanches – Draht 8
03 Ettlinger – bzw
04 Mentoco me – b 6
05 Frigorex – The Beginning
06 Dino Oon – Nr. 6
07 Pfad der Tugend – Einklang
08 Kurzschluss – L'Inconnu
09 Wooden Barrows – Zyklus VI
10 Le Petit Mort – Geheimes Wissen
11 Strafe für Rebellion – Boston
12 Maria Zerfall – Wohin
13 ADD – Dörper's Dream
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