samler: kassel berlin 1980. and i love that jerkwater!

in 1980 the kassel band samler desolated the documenta-area near the german frontier and headed for berlin to record two tracks of northwestgerman psychpunkmayhem though homesickness made them leave ghost-town immedeiately and sent them back home to plant some 3000 oaks. no, they did! the four very young kids spent the summer of june 1980 in berlin only to vanish in obscurity right away. but these two songs of 39-madness will always occupy a very prominent place in may heart, though i never heard their music until mister voran played these two songs to me last friday. anyway: stumblepratpunk for your pleasure!

samler were of course: stefan (bass), patrick (drums), gosto (guitar) and matt (vocals) and you may listen to:

be yourself
mg

(both tracks are mp3 at 320 kbps and direct downloads, if you need the pictures please open and save)

german version

hannover 1980. rocks off makes me spring and dance.

in the late seventies and the very early eighties of the last century the children of hitler's children, the children of cola, cold war and dutschke in the plains of the northwestgerman low lands created and elaborated a very special psychedelyric unstyle of musick: the 39 clocks of course were the spearhead of these ayers-, fowley-, rough trade noises, but a lot of (now) obscure bands antedated and shadowed them.

two years before the first 39 clocks 7" changed the world the hannover band rocks off released their first and most likely only single: stefan heidrich (vocals, guitars), thomas von strohe (bass) and rommé (drums) recorded two tracks at the shelter studios for uptight music and then vanished in the rain. jammerschade. listen, please:

easy livin' (s. heidrich)
girl on the tank (w. hänel / s. heidrich)

(both tracks are direct downloads, mp3 at 320 kbps. and just for the records: matthias was the engineer and the remix was made at tonko hannover 1980)

german version

sonic youth live in bremen 1991. the mira tapes.

sonic youth. the mira tapes. live at the aladin in bremen on the 27th of august 1991. this cd seems to be the bootleg version of the half-official live in bremen album, recorded from a different position in the room and with a slightly different tracklist. as both albums are unavailable by the time being these sounds might add an interesting aspect and facet to the history of sonic youth music for any heartcore collector.

listen to:

mote
song for karen (tunic)
dirty boots
chapel hill north carolina
i love her all the time
mary christ
kool thing
express way (for patti smith)
spot'ssz christ?!

sonic youth live in bremen 1991-08-27
(mp3 / 256 kbps / 95 mb)

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26 seconds art performance

can. the spoon variations. 1971. crime scene soundtrack recordings.

in 1971 francis durbridge shot the crime thriller "das messer" for german television and he invited can to contribute some improvised music to the soundtrack. scaffolding their hit-single spoon analyzed and treatized the sounds they saw and captured the score. you can hear 20 minutes of sound recorded directly from 70s television to an old reel-to-reel to my heartdrive: unfortunately too few things survive.

|>> can - spoon

german version

the 39 clocks live in bremen and hamburg 1982. i can hear voices.

the 39 clocks. the spearhead of the northwestgerman psychodeliatric blaireblackblurt punk movement dancing away editions of you in the early eighties of the lastlast century: fed up and fed up with punk (at least the idiot version), disco (the no-meta, straight-straight version: dance if you do not know why you are a heteroe-heroe) and rock (unless you psych-out!): bored teenagers with stars on their elbows: kevin ayers, john cale, john cage, the vollfett underground and the velvet illusions: lightlife was early in 1973: where to now??!!

one way out of moms and deads were the 39 clocks: too loud too lazy too laird too soon: an unbroken non-meta version of all thinks psych andelerium: two or three fat-skinny people: with only some vat 69 in their refrigerator: too old to lose it: the loud lawd laid layers on layers: no more nordstadt-heroes: kassettentäter zonengrenze bollwerck schnaps von ahsen unterm schwanz am tor schützenfest persiko scheessel hamburg arbeiterkampf brokdorf brötzmann wuppertal wastun christine barbara tom cathy maschinenpistolen geheimwaffen zonengrenze einstein spiekeroog bfbs nwdr kbw kraftwerk man ladenöffnungszeiten haifischflossensuppe auslandstarife thiepval decken zahnpasta graaf reich jung tesla my brain hurts und untergrund und über alles there was amon düül and ulrich roski and ingo insterburg and xhol and limpe fuchs and and rolf zacher and krischke and fly and editions of you! connection, context, continuity!

and yes: the 39 clocks: live 1982: hamburg and bremen. the centers of northwestgerman un-punk in the times of un-punk. psycheroedelindia!

alright: bremen: 1982, september the second. jürgen gleue (bass, guitar) and christian henjes (guitar, bass) out on stage with rüdiger klose on drums. to find more information please follow the appropriate tag in the right column: now listen:

1 - crime appeal
2 - quiet night expression
3 - virtuous girl
4 - DNS
5 - don't split up again
6 - loose-a-hippie
7 - fear & loathe on 42nd street
8 - 39 progress of a psychotic

the 39 clocks live in bremen 1982-09-02
(mp3, 45 minutes, 105 mb, direct download)

listen to the german version

and when in hamburg: do as the hamburgers do: live at the hamburg versuchsfeld 1982-04-23: the 39 clocks: la-dies and gentlemaniacs:

01-crime appeal
02-rainy fridays
03-DNS
04-radiosilentactivity
05-worthless-thanmyass
06-DOM
07-heading for more
08-three floors down
09-louie louie
10-floating loathe can kill
11-loose-a-hippie

the 39 clocks - hamburg 1982-04-23
(mp3, 73minutes, 170 mb, direct download)

listen to the german version