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    Als Die Welt Noch Unterging: German Post-Punk Underground 1979 - 1984Various Artists

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    • – Carambolage - Gehirnwäsche
    • – Siluetes 61 - Wo ist der Dom?
    • – Hans-A-Plast - Lemminger Punks
    • – Kosmonautentraum - Abschied
    • – Die Zwei - Wir bleiben hier
    • – Family 5 - Tagein – Tagaus
    • – Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle - Tagesschau
    • – Neues Deutschland - Muskulatur
    • – Die Egozentrischen 2 - Gegensätze
    • – Male - Risikofaktor 1:X
    • – Bärchen und die Milchbubis - Tagebuch
    • – Die Zimmermänner - Keiner ruft Cornelia an
    • – The Wirtschaftswunder - Bauernlife
    • – Palais Schaumburg - Kinder der Tod
    • – Cretins - Samen im Darm
    • – Konstantin - Sing mir ein kleines Arbeiterkampflied
    • 1. Autofick - Eiscafé
    • 2. Carambolage - Gehirnwäsche
    • 3. Siluetes 61 - Wo ist der Dom?
    • 4. Hans-A-Plast - Lemminger Punks
    • 5. Kosmonautentraum - Abschied
    • 6. Holger Hiller - Ein Hoch auf das Bügeln
    • 7. Die Zwei - Wir bleiben hier
    • 8. Family 5 - Tagein – Tagaus
    • 9. Rassemenschen helfen armen Menschen - Alles ist mir recht
    • 10. Lustige Mutanten - Spiel ums Leben
    • 11. Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle - Tagesschau
    • 12. Neues Deutschland - Muskulatur
    • 13. Die Egozentrischen 2 - Gegensätze
    • 14. Male - Risikofaktor 1:X
    • 15. Bärchen und die Milchbubis - Tagebuch
    • 16. Die Zimmermänner - Keiner ruft Cornelia an
    • 17. The Wirtschaftswunder - Bauernlife
    • 18. Palais Schaumburg - Kinder der Tod
    • 19. Cretins - Samen im Darm
    • 20. Konstantin - Sing mir ein kleines Arbeiterkampflied

    A chronicle of the emergence and development of punk and new wave in German-speaking countries 1979-1984. Als die Welt noch unterging (When the world was still ending) ... many things were possible. The apocalyptic sentiment around 1980 gave punk and new wave the necessary push. It led to an incredible outburst of activity and creativity. Against the backdrop of the nuclear armament, nobody believed that this world would have a great future anymore so suddenly everything was allowed, regardless of the consequences. This is the subject of a book by German author Frank Apunkt Schneider, in which he unfolds the history of the New German Wave and the German punk underground right through to the regional, cassette and fanzine scenes. To mark the 20th anniversary of this book, a compilation curated by the author brings this period back to life.

    Around 1981, provincial Germany was an excellent breeding ground for abstruse concepts such as those of Autofick (an offshoot of the group Zimt), whose training cassette Pogo: Ein Praktischer Leitfaden included sound examples such as the song "Eiscafé”, which contains a compact analysis of youth in Tübingen and is the third best German punk song. Carambolage, on the other hand, made music in Ton Steine Scherben’s North Frisian band commune that didn’t sound like Neue Deutsche Welle (NDW - meaning New German Wave), but more like obscure British DIY bands, for whom punk simply meant the downward redistribution of pop culture.

    At the same time, a handful of musicians in Limburg an der Lahn founded a couple of bands, which Alfred Hilsberg brought to the people as “Limburger Pest", a record package consisting of singles by The Wirtsch-aftswunder and Die Radierer and the flexidisc "Wo ist der Dom?" by Siluetes 61, a project by Tom Dokupil (who was also in all the other bands), which (like "Bauernlife" by The Wirtschaftswunder) processed life in the cathedral city with its invisible cathedral into a lively anti-art song. Hanover, on the other hand, was large enough to have a proper punk scene, which gradually transformed teenage rebellion into an eternal stag party against an end-time backdrop, which Hans-A-Plast could not miss recording for posterity as early as 1981. The fact that the only queer hits in the otherwise largely heteronormative scene - "Tagebuch" by Bärchen und Die Milchbubis and "Samen im Darm" by the Cretins - emerged in Hanover of all places is one of those likeable contradictions that characterize the early phase of punk.

    Ziggy XY nevertheless turned his back on the city, and the unwieldy strangeness of his project Kosmonaut-entraum can certainly be understood as an objection to the unambiguousness of the dawning “Deutschpunk”. The second LP (with the anti-hit "Abschied") at latest caught up with Holger Hiller, who in turn pushed NDW avant-garde to the point of high cultural maturity on his own records and as the singer of Palais Schaumburg. In one way or another, his records could have been created at the other end of a modernity that had not been interrupted by the Nazis. Thanks to their classical vocal training, the brothers Udo and Gerd Scheuerp-flug, alias Die Zwei from Neuendettelsau in Franconia, ventured into similar realms. Their a cappella single was played by John Peel and was released on the label of the pioneering Berlin record shop Zensor, which also had a hand in the self-released single by Konstantin, with which Max Goldt and Gerd Pasemann bridged the time while they were not allowed to use the name Foyer Des Arts for contractual reasons. Düsseldorf has been studied so thoroughly that I will limit myself here to Family 5 and Male, but I don't want to withhold them because "Tagein - Tagaus" is the best lyric Peter Hein has written to date, and Male was the first "first German punk band" to produce real punk hits. Rassemenschen helfen armen Menschen stole the second best band name of the NDW from the poster of a Viennese cat-breeding exhibition (for charitable purposes) and their singles, which are quite rightly no longer to be found, are far too far out to be left out here.

    In Marburg (an der Lahn), Ludger Andreas alias Exo Neutrino tried to recreate Limburg conditions by recording cassettes single-handedly under crazy, changing names. His only single (as Lustige Mutanten) was actually produced in Limburg by Tom Dokupil. Just like "Tagesschau" by Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle (or F.S.K.), which tried to reinvent the deadly serious media criticism popular among German left-wingers as cheerful pop criticism. Neues Deutschland from Kassel left behind only a concept album about the German-German division, on which "Muskulatur" is a little out of the ordinary, because thematically it is actually more of an F.S.K. song.

    And while Neue Deutsche Welle was already disappearing from the scene elsewhere, in Hamburg-Bergedorf various children got together under the guidance of Felix Kubin to play NDW underground, which led to quite fascinating misunderstandings that were distributed among friends under group names such as Die Egozen-trischen 2. In the centre of Hamburg, Die Zimmermänner were already exploring the question of whether it was even possible to sing pop in German after all. The fact that the "German Pop Music" that emerged always kept its quotation marks for the sake of decency distinguishes it favorably from the dreadful German pop music that everyone feels called upon to make today.

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