Published
Mon, Mar 21, 2016, 14:36
- The Raster-Noton founder's klangFarBe, from mid-'80s East Germany, is the subject of a new compilation due out in April.
Mannequin has put together a retrospective of Frank Bretschneider's klangFarBe label.
German artist Bretschneider is best known as the founder of Raster-Noton, one of experimental electronic music's key outlets. But before he ran Raster-Noton, Bretschneider had another label called klangFarBe, which he started in 1985 in the East German city of Chemnitz (then known as Karl-Marx-Stadt). Owing to the communist GDR's chokehold on arts and culture, all eight of klangFarBe's releases of minimal wave-esque music were released secretively, in very limited runs. The label remained relatively out of reach even after German reunification—only AG Geige's 1987 album Yachtclub + Buchteln was given a reissue, back in 1998.
According to Juno Plus, German Democratic Republic Tape Music 1983-1987 features selections from that Geige tape, along with Bretschneider's Scombermix—the first release on klangFarBe—Stein Im Brett's Vater Alfons Erzählt from 1986 and Kriminelle Tanzkapelle’s Glückliche Jahre from 1985.
Tracklist
01. Frank Bretschneider – Dunkler Raum
02. Frank Bretschneider – Im Kopf
03. Frank Bretschneider – Nun Mach Dich
04. Frank Bretschneider – Lauf Ralf
05. Frank Bretschneider – Erika
06. Frank Bretschneider – Radio, Radio
07. Frank Bretschneider – Die Meinung Der Fische Zur Pfanne
08. Frank Bretschneider – Weg Hier
09. Frank Bretschneider – Dirigent
10. Kriminal Tanzkapelle – Lola Is Tot
11. Kriminal Tanzkapelle – Klatschmohn
12. Kriminal Tanzkapelle – ACLP
13. Kriminal Tanzkapelle – Verena
14. Stein Im Brett – Discoball
15. Stein Im Brett – Gummi Arabicum
16. Stein Im Brett – Tanzstunde
17. Stein Im Brett – Maiwölfe
18. Stein Im Brett – Reinfall
19. Stein Im Brett – Promotor
20. Stein Im Brett – Konversation
21. AG Geige – Yachtclub & Buchteln
22. AG Geige – Elektrische Banane
23. AG Geige – Eine Frikadelle
24. AG Geige – Die Waldschleiereule
25. AG Geige – Glückliche Reise
26. AG Geige – Schnitz
Mannequin will release German Democratic Republic Tape Music 1983-1987 on April 16th, 2016.