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Magnetizdat Ddr, Magnetbanduntergrund Ost
Iron Curtain Radio (major label) presents: the triple LP for the book project of the same name with 43 radically exciting pieces from the music cassette underground of the former GDR! A tour-de-force through eleven years of offbeat and anti-state releases. Triple LP in gatefold sleeve with informative 12-page booklet and download code! After the book published by Alexander Pehlemann, Ronald Galenza and Robert Miessner entitled "Magnetizdat DDR" was published, a successor to the first part "Suspense. Power. Resistance.", the editors have also included the stylistic diversity of the scene in a magnificent compilation immortalized with 43 tracks: from unorthodox punk with a no-wave tendency, lo-fi experimental rock, idiosyncratic pop designs, darkwave both as a sound and as a basic feeling, new Sorbian art, industrial, art noise and anticipated post rock to improvised music and performance soundtracks The spectrum ranges right up to compositions based on the avant-garde. In addition to somewhat better-known representatives such as Ornament & Crime, Rosa Extra or Der Schwarze Kanal, the most obscure projects and artists* of the former underground cavort here. As with the Iron Curtain Radio compilation "Notes From The Underground", this release was also created in cooperation with the Portuguese project "Unearthing The Music", whose designer Jose Mendes was responsible for the exceptionally aesthetic design.