NDW revisited: I'll build you a compilation (and three more to)

BEAR FAMILY is a traditional, renowned reissue label that cares primarily about the fields Country, Rocknroll, Rockabilly and German Schlager. The label is famous or infamous? for its extensive, often full over ten CDs retrospectives, for example, by artists such as Hank Williams or Jerry Lee Lewis, and for its series that year, a genre exemplary document, such as the Street Corner Symphonies (-> Doo Wop) or the series Sweet Soul Music. The CDs or boxes are mostly extensive booklets or books in. 1A-remastering and correct, exhaustive discography are standard. When a label like BEAR FAMILY now assumes the Neue Deutsche Welle, one can assume that this does not happen casually.

So also NDW. From gray cities walls. The German New Wave 1977-85 a scale on four parts series. Part 1 is a double CD with 2 x 25 songs. The digipack is a 150seitiges Booklet Books with cover images and detailed band biographies, a lot of material to read and look so (though not yet by all Performers: More detailed artist biographies, I gather from the booklet, this series can be found in the accompanying books of the remaining parts . You have to put incentives) halt.

BEAR FAMILY want to submit a NDW-standard work in four parts ie. And NDW is here both musically and in time wider than commonly usual, see foreword in the booklet: The musical diversity from the years 1977 to 1985 tried this compilation as extensively as possible to map a short-lived world torn between modernity, art music and industrial mass production , That all texts are not identified by name, including the Foreword, so want to act as non-partisan encyclopedia articles, reinforced this impression.

Now you have at other locations on this compilation already read that it was inaudible, as extremely heterogeneous. Krachiger Punk stands next to electronics, underground next ubiquitous radio hits, post-punk experiment next unsophisticated German rock, avant-funk meets Blödelpop, dialect Sophistication. Somehow just a mixture of E and U, commerce and claim, good and evil, bottom and top. I at least do not find that bad, on the contrary. This enormous range of sounds makes it just the appeal of this compilation from. Mainly because it also reflects the former flood of vinyl sampler, was to consist mainly in 1982 draufgepackt during the total commercialization regardless of not only musically different denominator, which was just available: I prefer the major label sampler The new dance music is da da da (Fontana, 1982) from the shelf. Here the KFC down besides I won and The economic miracle stands beside Ina Deter, next to Katia. On the LP I can rhythm! can be found on the A-side down in good company with the Spider Murphy Gang, Miss. Menke, FM and the duo gentian and so on.

Clear that even today as a mixture evokes strong reactions. So also with me. In Part 1 are songs that (almost) let me freak out, I, I have to put it this way, deeply abhor. And these songs take then a few minutes later on another that are fused with their own DNA. Thats life. Find this contrast fundamentally exciting than now create a compilation that German Punk from the second half of 1979 gathered from the region Emsland, and then only B-sides, going all less than two minutes and have been published by small labels in 500 Pad. Also has its charm, certainly, but that's not the concern here of BEAR FAMILY.

Nevertheless, one must of compiling ago not all hot well on this first part. What have the EAV to seek the only Act which does not come from Germany, here? Then please also expand geographically to Falco, Floral Blue, Franz Morak, Minisex, Kleenex, gray area The period 1977-1985 is already very generous, I think, too generous, especially with regard to the years 84/85. That in my opinion nothing to do with the NDW.

And of course the whole project smacks of historicizing and musealization. But that can not be blamed for a label like BEAR FAMILY. Exciting would be to discuss why the Klug scared in several songs still müffelt, exciting it would be to discuss what the bottom line was no more than a poor imitation of Anglo-American role models here and what is not, and last but not least, the pro-and-contra -Erörterung whether around 1980 (at least) musically everything was better than CTRL + point.

Bottom line: class compilation of hits and rarities, Abgedudeltem + Frischeinudeln, Beads & scrap and all prepared perfectly. However, more suitable for advanced users as for NDW newcomers.