Berlin 61/89 Wall of Sound

lemaquis · Tepid Joined: Mar 31, 2009 Posts: 3

Berlin 61 – 89 / Wall Of Sound is not an ordinarycompilation. It is closer to a concept album, referring both to a chapter in History and a musical assemblage which resounds like a continental echo to Phil Spector’ s American pop Wall of Sound.

Extreme and intense music, concocted during those three decades « at the foot of the Wall » and in front of it by creators who love danger and risk taking. Alongside pasionarias such as Nico and Nina Hagen, we can find German bands. Faust, Agitation Free, Harmonia, Can, Die Krupps, Neu !, Einstürzende Neubauten, their Swiss cousins the Young Gods and all the others are aesthetes, pioneers of underground culture which tamed electronics with an acute sense of efficiency. True inhabitants of the city, Berliners by adoption or fascinated by the brilliance of its new look urbanity, they often mix the art of melody to a Bruitist (noise music) approach. Their music flirts with trance and resonant dramatic art which can be found in the main protagonists of the Bruitist and electro scenes of today.

http://www.maquismusic.com/store/fr/catalog/2/catalogmaquis2009

AirCrashBureau · Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 6:19 pm Post subject:

Can you provide us with a track list perhaps? I somehow seem to be unable to find one. Smile

lemaquis · Tepid Joined: Mar 31, 2009 Posts: 3

The tracklisting:

CD1
1 THE YOUNG GODS Salomon Song
2 NINA HAGEN Born in xixax
3 AGITATION FREE Ruksturz
4 MALARIA Your turn to run
5 AMON DUUL A morning excuse
6 BRUNO SPOERRI/IRMIN SCHIMDT Rapido de noir
7 CAN Thief
8 NEU After Eight
9 ELECTRIC SANDWICH China
10 CLUSTER Hollywood
11 NICO Reich der trauma
12 BRAINTICKET The Space between
13 JANE Love Song
14 EDGAR FROESE A dali Esque Sleep fuse
15 HARMONIA When shade was born

CD2
1 FAUST The sad skinhead
2 HARMONIA Vamos companeros
3 NEU Lila Angel
4 DIE KRUPPS Wahre Arbeit Wahrer Lohn
5 KRAAN Die Maschine
6 MDK Berlin 36
7 CLUSTER Caramel
8 DIE TODLICHE DORIS Der Astonaut & der kosmo
9 PALAIS SCHAUMBURG Telefon
10 THE FRONT Polaroid
11 LIAISONS DANGEREUSES Dupont
12 EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN Yu-Gung (futter mein ego)
13 NINA HAGEN Cosma Shiva
14 THE YOUNG GODS Speak Low
15 CAN Future Days

M · coldwave Joined: Feb 04, 2006 Posts: 413

I do not see many suprising tracks... too bad... would have been nice if it had featured some really exclusive tracks...