KOSMISCHER LÄUFER

THE SECRET COSMIC MUSIC OF THE EAST GERMAN OLYMPIC PROGRAM 1972-83 (VOLUME ONE)

FRASER LEWRY

(Unknown Capability Recordings, 2013) Martin Zeichnete was born in Pesterwitz, a small town seven miles south-west of Dresden city centre, in 1951. His first job was working at DEFA (Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft, the state-owned film studio), where he learned tape-editing skills. With the GDR Government censoring the arts, Zeichnete’s exposure to music from the west was limited, but he could tune into a radio station in Dusseldorf, nearly 600km away in West Germany, where he was exposed to bands like Neu!, Cluster and Kraftwerk. To cut a long story short, Zeichnete started making tapes of his own music, inspired by what he heard on the radio, and shared them with his friends. “I was a keen amateur runner, and when out I would play these motorik, repetitive songs in my head,”…

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