This sounds interesting: a book + double cd entitled „Spannung Leistung Widerstand – Magnetbanduntergrund DDR 1979–1989“.
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A few photos of the nice concerts of Wermut and Echo West last Sunday in Amersfoort, are added to the Gallery.

‘The Voice Of New Music’ is an anthology of articles from the American composer Tom Johnson that originally appeared in the Village Voice.
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Fascinating: in Eastern Europe, medical X-ray film was used as the base material for new record discs, because of a wartime lack of other materials.

The unaesthetic pages of Myspace are not only populated by teenagers anymore. You can now find quite a few ‘oldschool’ bands there, whose pages are mainly interested for the music offered on them. Some examples:
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Nordwaves is a website in French dedicated to cold wave, gothic, industrial etc. music from the north of France, with a focus on the 80’s. Most valuable are the biographies and discographies of bands. On some bandpages you can listen to music, for example of Guerre Froide. Also nice are the scans of old fanzines.

This weekend I saw Das Bierbeben at a presentation of the Shitkatapult label. They played a mix of punky electropop and NDW, which was not very new, but quite entertaining. You can see a video of Reproduktion at YouTube or listen to songs at myspace of their new album Alles Fällt.

Ferrara Brain Pan: “I have decided to make available the complete recorded back catalog of Forms Of Things Unknown as free, high-resolution MP3 downloads in the FOTU audio section. This includes all five full-length tracks of the “Cross Purposes” CD, as well as a couple of hard-to-find compilation appearances.”