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Release Date: 2023Label: aufnahme + wiedergabe
Mixed by Joggy Müller & Ingo Sauer at Taymur‘s Studio 1989.500 copies
With printed innersleeve and two-sided inlay about the tapetopia series.
The tape was slightly shortened for the vinyl.
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tapetopia 006 / 2022 © tapetopia / aufnahme + wiedergabe
NEUNTAGE – “Soldier”
Eastberlin 1988
The band Neuntage appeared in 1986 during the last blackout phase of the GDR. Its founding fathers came from the early East Berlin punk scene. They had found common ground in projects such as Medusa Brahma, Die zeitweilige Erscheinung or the Mahlsdorfer Wohnstuben Orchester. From there, a short tunnel led straight into the black light of Neuntage, the coldest star in the low-hanging synth-pop sky above East Berlin. Hardly any other post-punk band in the GDR was blessed with such an unconstrained and incidental understanding of melody.
Conceptually and technically, Neuntage was discerning, but a band heavily into DIY. Some of its equipment was based on circuit diagrams from the radio amateur magazine “Funkamateur” by the military publishing house of the GDR. “Soldier” circulated in an edition of less than 50 copies, on cassettes the band had bought from Vietnamese guest workers. Neuntage also performed with Die Vision and with AG Geige.