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Der Aufstand Der Chemiker
The very first solo album from Der Plan member Moritz R® as an exclusive, original Japanese release on Suezan Studio!
The Tetchy Teenage Tapes Of
2024 Stock. 300 copies limited edition. Japan release only. ** Felix Kubin began his musical career in the early 1980s as a twelve-year-old as part of the duo Die Egozentrischen 2, together with Stefan Mohr, who was one year younger. Since then, the Hamburg multi-talent, born Felix Knoth in 1969, has made a significant name for himself in the alternative German music scene both as a solo artist and in diverse formations such as Klangkrieg, Liedertafel Margot Honecker, CEL and many others, and ru…
Dragonflies' Matings are Scary
The very first solo album from Der Plan member Moritz R® as an exclusive, original Japanese release on Suezan Studio!
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2024 Stock. 300 copies limited edition. Japan release only. ** The Berlin electro duo Period was formed in 2016 in collaboration between Andreas Reihse (key member of the cult neo-Krautrock band Kreidler) and guitarist Thomas “Prof” Winkler. In 2019, the three-part 12″ series, sparingly titled “1-3”, was published by Indie Weltschrei Verlag. In the same year, Cosima Pitz released the cassette album “4” in a limited edition of 50 copies, which of course sold out within milliseconds. On August 25,…
Euch Geht's Ja Noch Viel Zu Gut
2024 Stock. 300 copies limited edition. Japan release only. ** The name of the duo Thorax-Wach, which was founded in 1980 together with Frank Dieckmann, comes from the context of the morgue in which Olaf Kraemer worked at the time. Between 1980 and 1981, with the help of two Korg M-20s and a microphone, a handful of MCs celebrated in the underground scene were created, as well as self-released vinyl records on their own label, Schnellschnitt, which the duo, which had since relocated from tranqui…
Kaum Erdacht - Schon Mode
2024 Stock. 300 copies limited edition. Japan release only. ** The name of the duo Thorax-Wach, which was founded in 1980 together with Frank Dieckmann, comes from the context of the morgue in which Olaf Kraemer worked at the time. Between 1980 and 1981, with the help of two Korg M-20s and a microphone, a handful of MCs celebrated in the underground scene were created, as well as self-released vinyl records on their own label, Schnellschnitt, which the duo, which had since relocated from tranqui…
The 80s Archives
2024 Stock. 300 copies limited edition. Japan release only. ** “It all started in 1979 when the punk scene was in full bloom and we, the youthful dilletants believed that changing the world included a hit on a cooking pot, some weird strumming of a distorted acoustic guitar or screaming from the top of the lungs. We were anti Art, but Dadaists, hated politics but were political, anti-pretty but extremely vain, anti-Rock and anti-conformist.” This is how Jürgen Schweighart describes the beginning…
Stahlwerksynfonie
2024 Stock. Japan release only. ** The 1981 debut album by Dee Krupps, the first German industrial album that made a huge impact on artists since then, is now officially released in Japan for the first time. This historical masterpiece, recorded at Cann's Inner Space Studio and mixed at Connie Planck's studio, has been completely reissued in 2022 with the latest digital re-mastering and clearer sound. The screams of metal percussion (stertorophone) piercing sharply through the heavy repetitive r…
Freuziel
2024 Stock. 300 copies limited edition. Japan release only. ** The Hamburg New Wave duo Ti-Tho, consisting of ChrisTIna Marisa Calcagno, who was still in her teens at the time, and Thomas Stelter, made a brilliant debut in 1982 with the single “Traumtäumer” on Alfred Hilsberg's legendary Zick Zack label. Further singles were released by the industry before they went their separate ways in the mid-eighties in the waning Neue Deutsche Welle without ever releasing the long-awaited debut album. To m…
Xiuxiuejar
Icelandic theremin musician Hekla offers her second album of haunting, spectral soundscape-songwriting Xiuxiuejar, a sonic black hole of corrosive beauty and mesmerising darkness.  “I grew up mostly in Barcelona, but after being so long now back in Iceland I have really come to love the Catalan language,” Hekla writes. “The word Xiuxiuejar felt right for the album. It means to whisper.” This sense of understatement, of quietude, of intentionality permeates her new album. Tiny, single artefacts a…
Bitchin Bajas
Bitchin Bajas' second, self-titled album finds the experimental trio blending musicial personalities of the past to create their own sonic identity. There are no forced attempts at edginess, even though their simple techniques keep the music loose and live-sounding.
UnPop
2024 Stock. Japan release only. ** The duo Lustige Mutanten , consisting of Ludger Rößner (a.k.a. Exo Neutrino) and Tom Dokoupil (Siluetes 61, The Wirtschaftswunder), was active for a short time in the early 1980s and released the remarkable pre-NDW epic in 1981 on the band's own label Pop-O-Rekords “UnPop” with 13 minimalist tracks in a 7″ single format, which was delivered in a 12″ LP sleeve and can now be considered a collector’s item. Forty years later, “UnPop” is now available on CD for the…
Geld Her!
2024 Stock. Limited to 300 copies, Japan release only. ** Founded in 1978, the Croox consisted of graphic designer and Ink Records founder Mike Schmidt (who also worked for Kraftwerk, Sandra, Hubert Kah, Michael Cretu, Münchner Freiheit and Spider Murphy Gang, among others), Sabine “Bine” Niedergassel and Gerd Gaida aka Crashman , Clemenz and Kay Wolde and were a fixture in the New Wave scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s from the artistically fertile Düsseldorf. In addition to Croox, Ink Re…
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2024 Stock. Limited to 300 copies, Japan release only. ** Founded in 1978, the Croox consisted of graphic designer and Ink Records founder Mike Schmidt (who also worked for Kraftwerk, Sandra, Hubert Kah, Michael Cretu, Münchner Freiheit and Spider Murphy Gang, among others), Sabine “Bine” Niedergassel and Gerd Gaida aka Crashman , Clemenz and Kay Wolde and were a fixture in the New Wave scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s from the artistically fertile Düsseldorf. In addition to Croox, Ink Re…
Rex
2024 Stock. Limited to 300 copies, Japan release only.** The new wave/experimental duo Reifenstahl was founded in 1979 by PA distributor and Croox member Gerd Gaida together with Matthias Rapp. In 1981, the debut album was released on Ink Records by Mike Schmidt, who was temporarily active with Reifenstahl alongside bandmate Michael Reinhardt. The band has been broken up and revived several times, the last sign of life so far is the second album “Rex”, released in 1986 on the Ink Records success…
Die Wunderwaffe
2024 Stock. Limited to 300 copies, Japan release only.** The new wave/experimental duo Reifenstahl was founded in 1979 by PA distributor and Croox member Gerd Gaida together with Matthias Rapp. In 1981, the debut album was released on Ink Records by Mike Schmidt, who was temporarily active with Reifenstahl alongside bandmate Michael Reinhardt. The band has been broken up and revived several times, the last sign of life so far is the second album “Rex”, released in 1986 on the Ink Records success…
Denk Daran!
2024 Stock. Japan release only.** The cult and now legendary Christmas compilation “Denk Daran!” with exclusive contributions from well-known artists of the early experimental/minimal/pre-NDW era was first released in 1980, compiled by Xao Seffcheque and published as an LP by the Düsseldorf city magazine “Überblick”. appeared. For Christmas 2021, “Denk Daran!” will now receive a worthy new edition from Krautrock and NDW specialist Suezan Studio as a carefully digitally remastered, original Japan…
Nach Herzenslust
The very first solo album from Der Plan member Moritz R® as an exclusive, original Japanese release on Suezan Studio!
Saru L-Qamar
Phantom Limb boss and musician James Vella - aka A Lily - announces his first release for the label Saru l-Qamar, setting archival Maltese home recordings to new music for an album of nostalgic quasi-ambience and cross-generational dialogue. From the 60’s until the modern era, it was common for Maltese families to receive reel tapes from relatives abroad. Maltese emigrés resettled in Australia, the UK, Canada etc. would record their news onto cassette - often in the form of għana, traditional Ma…
Boku・Neko・Platanus (Expanded Edition)
A Japanese synth curio? A lost techno-pop classic? So might run the standard view of the electronic album 'Boku・Neko・Platanus', recorded in 1984 by Shinichi Omata. The facts point that way. The futuristic 'Platonische Liebe' and Omata’s technodelic take on the traditional Greek folk track 'Omorfoula' (here titled 'Egyptische Knabe') are timeless electro tracks with a radically simple pop concept and robotic flavour that closely echo Japan’s most recognisable exports from the era - sounds and sty…