Name: Magnetband - Experimenteller Elektronik - Underground DDR 1984 - 1989
Brand: Various

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

BB253LP

Colour

Black

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2023-09-22

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Shellshock

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

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4015698008685

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Total Cap

Black LP

BB253

4015698008678

Artist

Various

Genre GB

New Wave / Post Punk

Label GB

Bureau B

Bureau B is an independent record label, music publisher, and booking agency based in Hamburg, Germany. Founded in 2005 by Gunther Buskies as a sister label to Tapete Records, Bureau B specializes in releasing a diverse range of electronic and avant-garde music. With a focus on reissues and new productions, the label has built an extensive catalogue that includes iconic albums from the Krautrock genre of the 1970s and early 1980s. They also release recordings by influential artists such as Die Wilde Jagd, Kreidler, Toulouse Low Trax, and more.

Known for their commitment to preserving classic electronic music, Bureau B has been rereleasing albums from renowned artists like Cluster, Faust, Moebius, Roedelius, Plank, Schickert Schnitzler Tietchens Tyndall. In addition to these reissues, they also release works by similar artists including Blenner Heldon Pinhas Rev or NDW Plan Pyrolator.

With their impressive catalogue and dedication to promoting innovative music across various genres within the electronic spectrum - from pop to avant-garde - Bureau B continues to be a prominent force in the global music industry. Their contributions have solidified them as an authoritative figure in the world of independent labels.

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Inspired by Punk and Post Punk, vibrant scenes dedicated to independent self-actualisation by means of sound circulated on self-distributed cassettes, then the cheapest and fastest medium, were developing on each side of the Cold War's confrontational line. Albeit under quite different circumstances. While there was a DIY euphoria in the West, which would also have had ideological motives, subcultures in the East simply had no other means at their disposal. Even the first act of replication meant moving into illegal territory, since every duplication was strictly sanctioned and had to be authorised by state authorities. Just like anything else, whether in print or where live shows were concerned. The protagonists - musicians, painters, poets, filmmakers, performers... (often all at once) - were openly and unbiased crossing genres and jumping back and forth between various styles, having already taken their internal leave from state and society as they had done externally anyway. Disillusioned, and often ready to jump towards the West, these border crossers defined themselves rather somewhere between non- and anti-political, pursuing self-actualisation strategies by means of an extended niche existence. They took refuge in the search for ways of creative self-assertion and communication, looking out in sensual despair, utilising sounds of rage, linguistic wit and a passion for tinkering. Driven by ubiquitous boredom, equipped with plenty of time and free of economic restraints (or rather possibilities), labour was performed with no regard to the final product, hardly documented and almost never published. With the partial opening of state controlled media and cultural sites accompanying the beginning agony of the State, conditions changed. Suddenly there was radio airplay of supposedly illegal cassettes, and weird noise performed at Palast der Republik, in the end, even full albums by these so-called "other bands" were released on the state-owned label AMIGA. The collapse following soon after relieved the activists remaining in the country of the quandary of continually having to re-position themselves. Many took different roads, some leading to Rammstein, others to Raster-Noton or groups like To Rococo Rot and Tarwater. The artefacts from that era tell of a stance of refusal in practice, and of the possibility to charge up on a high level, in spite of everything. Between being excluded and self-exclusion, truly wayward (twice literally) sounds and means of expression were developed. "Congruent with the absurdity of real existence", as lyricist and scene node Bert Papenfuß put it. Papenfuß, together with Ronald Lippok, Bernd Jestram and Bo Kondren, themselves active musicians then and now, compiled two companion CDs accompanying the long sold-out Zonic special edition Spannung. Leistung. Widerstand. Magnetbanduntergrund DDR 1979-1990, released by Verbrecher Verlag / ZickZack in 2006, of which the more experimental-electronic pieces are herewith available on the music market for the first time.

Magnetband - Experimenteller Elektronik - Underground DDR 1984 - 1989

Music GB

Discover Magnetband - Experimenteller Elektronik - Underground DDR 1984 - 1989 by Various. Limited edition LP from Bureau B. A unique collection of experimental electronic music from East Germany.