bis zum bitteren ende! - german experimental new wave punk 1979

bis zum bitteren ende! until it better ends! (sic!) no, wait. punk had just imploded in 1979 when some german kids - grown and fed up with histler, coke and kraut - loitered around later on and littered about and away all ways. they botchered and banglered their instruments and their language trying to ignore and hand down all traditional lies. this was funny, this was easy, this was cheap. and they did it. idiosyncratic noise against the masse mensch pored into the weltinnenraum. konzept! übergang! blitzcreek!

walter's lust was a frankfurt based diy-label for diy-noise. the medium was tedium or te deum and the medium at hand was the compact cassette: fast and free for all. this=here compilation "bis zum bitteren ende" was released on a no name mc and came with a xeroxed cover and tracklist: and though walter pretended to care about copyrights everyone was implicitily invited to copy the sheet and the music. some of those involved are forgotten by now, some are still around.

samler (sic! again!) hailed from kassel to nowhere. their first (and only?) 7"-record can be heard deep inside of this blog. the dildos unfortunately left no further traces. der plan formerly known as weltaufstandsplan does not need any further introduction. here they are with the later daf-employee wolfgang spelmans on guitar. diffusion as far as i remember them were situated in mainz. letzter tango are completely unknown to me, but there are some hints that they might have been walter's own band in frankfurt. radierer of course were part of the limburger pest including wirtschaftswunder and silhouettes. wunder der osmose released some tapes way back in these wonderful (sic!) times and P.D. of course pretty soon mutated into P16D4 and everything you know about ralf wehowsky.

now listen to side one of this cassette compilation:

samler - wrong way
the dildos - (???)
the dildos - (???)
der plan - ein stück
diffusion - plastik
letzter tango - (???)
letzter tango - (???)
letzter tango - recht und ordnung in ffm
radierer - (???)

and now download side one of this cassette compilation.
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are you still there?
now listen to side two of this cassette compilation:

wunder der osmose - (???)
wunder der osmose - der popper von der heide
der plan - hans und gabi
der plan - walzer
P.D. - zurück zum beton (S.Y.P.H. 1978)
P.D. - alltag
radierer - drogentod

and now download side two of this cassette compilation.
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vielleichtors live in tübingen 1982: german art punk tribal improvisation

last night i was digging in my cemetery and up came a tape all black and hairy. no cover, no label and drunkwritten on it "volk ohne raum" and "vielleichtors". the first mentioned band were an anti-imp(erialist) anti-fa(scist) noise unit (three women and one or two men only hardly tolerated) that used to issue baader-meinhof-proclamations whilst destroying unrehearsed pop-anthems (imagine an acoustic nihilist spasm band shrieking and voiciferating 23 pages of kropotkin theoremata and you might get half of the picture). "volk ohne raum" were definitely not on stage that evening: they can be heared disturbing and destroying the recording i tried to take from one of only very very few concerts the vielleichtors ever played. thank you christine, dagmar and hilde for a very strange re-version.

the (die) vielleichtors actually were a band from düsseldorf in north- /rhine-westfalia in germany. they were markus oehlen (brother of the slightly more famous painter albert, who could not play the drums like this) on (you guess:) drums, who was part of mittagspause before and had a minor hit with "beer is enough" later on, berthold locke on guitars and gunther tuzina on saxophones (some other artists may have been in nor out but memory tends to swift aways). they had only very few recordings released in 1981 and 1982 and their best known song "bring deinen körper auf die party" was a xao-fake the three of them authorised with a grin.

what you are about to enjoy now is a live recording of a performance in tübingen probably way back in 1982 that i recorded on a pseudo-mono tape recorder (though i can not remember all too much of that evening...) in room #3 of the students´ clubhouse. as i mentioned before some live overdubs were performed by the ladies of "volk ohne raum" for the better of the worth. for the chosen few that might stay the course i added three untitled instrumental recordings (mixed as one) the vielleichtors executed in the rondo-cellar in 1981. one franz bielmeier (ach so ja: falls ich die single von peter laughner in meinen archivtrümmerhäufungen je wiederfinden sollte: gehört sie natürlich dir: herr biermeier!) provided me with these tracks (thank you! aka ta!!!) and they are part of his subversive guerilla tactics getting the world ready for a 23-cd-box of mittagspause and rondo related music. have fun and stay tuned.

|>> vielleichtors - live in tübingen 1982 (53 minutes) and three rehearsal room recordings (5 minutes)
(mp3 / 224 kbps / 96 mb)

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and and and and: bonustracks sans end: bielmeier, daf, mittagspause, mittagspause, sturclub, bielmeier.