Charming film by Luke Snellin. Now get your tapes out.

Founded 1964 in Meißen (East Germany), Stern Combo Meißen (SCM) is considered one of the seminal bands of the East German rock scene in the 70′s alongside Pudhys, Karat and Electra. “Der Kampf um den Südpol” is a track from their self-titled debut album released in 1971 through state-owned Amiga Records. The song is illustrated with various documentary clips of the South Pole conquest and and a recorded live set for East-German television. Enjoy.

“Jean, for fuck sake. Stop that right now. You are doing my head in. What the fuck are you wearing. Take that off. Fucking idiot” – Jean, left that evening and was never seen again. Intoxicated by freedom he didn’t look back either.

An excerpt of visuals shown at the October edition of Cosmic Dancer. Sabrina Salerno’s infamous liberal performance of her tune wedgie ‘Boys’ is pleasurably prolonged by recompressing the speed of all video frames by 10%. Unfortunately the projection had to be terminated fairly early in the night after some male members of the audience became so fixated by all those bouncing balls that the Dj felt like he was (direct quote) ‘playing for drooling zombies’.

If you can’t get enough of Boys though why not check out this version by v/vm on their myspace. (Thanks Mix Mup). Sabrina on the other hand has since left this passage of her life (or should we blatantly call it a slip up?) waaaay behind and now runs a respectable managment agency. It’s called New Boys Productions. And you should check it out if your looking for a good time.

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Play all videos at once for a live performance. One. Two. Three…

An excerpt of some live visuals show on the night.
Visuals: The Moroders, Song: A Mountain of One. In da club here. Big thanks to Jacob Korn for his help.

His insightful survey on the evolution of Krautrock in post-war Germany should be a savory treat for any German rock aficionado. There is rare and unseen footage here of seminal bands such as Amon Düül II, Can, Kraftwerk, Guru Guru, Tangerine Dream. It’s all in German. Buhuh. But so was Krautrock. Hope you enjoy.

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First up, Guru Guru performing ‘Electric Junk’ in what looks like someones living room. I assume they had very tolerant neighbors? One of them can be seen at the beginning of the clip. He looks happy enough…

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Amon Düül II performing ‘Kronwinkel 13′ (1971). Probably the same house. Just one floor up. Follow the guitars.

When Germans learned to dance. Thanks Patrick. RIP.

Our bi-weekly aftershow party at Puschkin beach is taking a winter break. Thanks to everyone who came down. See you next year.

Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests were filmed from early 1964 – November 1966. Factory visitors who had potential “star” quality would be seated in front of a tripod mounted camera, asked to be as still as possible, and told not to blink while the camera was running. Each screen test was shot on a 100 foot roll of film and lasted the same length about 3 minutes. This young chap is called Bob. They say that he was the only one ever to leave before it was finished.

The Moroder play at the legendary Pimpernel Club in Munich. Hosted by the lovely Kitt Bang and his Bizarre Disco Circus. Sex on the dancefloor.