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Nontoxic – Intoxication

In 1986 I played drums in the Johannisthal punk band Morticians. The band practised in a cellar on Fritz Heckert Straße in Berlin’s Mitte district. Across the street, the cobblestone paving was bordered directly by the Wall. Behind it was where the music was at, while at the same time East Berlin’s live music scene was also exploding. Undeterred by odysseys on the S-Bahn and tram, goths and leather….
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A.F. Moebius – Eine Auswahl

Frank Bretschneider (1956) was active in the subcultural environment of the GDR’s Karl-Marx-Stadt (nowadays Chemnitz). The Karl-Marx-Stadt area was a nucleus of non-conformist activities in the GDR. Away from a prescribed socialist realism, a countercultural approach unfolded here as openly as was possible within a closed-off society. Inspired by mathematician and astronomer August Ferdinand Möbius….
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Happy Straps – Pleasures 1985-86

The name Happy Straps was deeply rooted in East Berlin’s alternative scene in the mid 1980s. Café Mosaik was a hotbed of the bohemian scene in Prenzlauer Berg, where dreamers, freaks and artists would meet – ‘negative elements’ who would positively charge each other’s batteries or drive each other insane about their prospects of finally being allowed to leave the GDR. At Café Mosaik Chris Schwartinsky and Jörg…
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L’Ambassadeur des Ombres – Strike Me If I Shriek

The name L’Ambassadeur des Ombres goes back to the French science fiction comic Valérian et Laureline. The series’ sixth episode in particular had an inspiring effect on Jörg ‘Joggy’ Müller, who founded the band together with René Glofke: L’Ambassadeur des Ombres, Ambassador of the Shadows. This title heralded darkness and morbidity and would serve as the name…
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Mahlsdorfer Wohnstuben Orchester – M.W.O. 1987-1989

The year 1982 brought the encounter of René Glofke and Taymur Streng, also known as “Glofke” and “Strangler” in the local district chapter of the East Berlin punk scene. In Mahlsdorf, a suburb between Berlin and Strausberg, Taymur converted his large living room into an improvised recording studio; devices were modified, machines optimized. Many things he assembled himself by following wiring…
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