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RELEASE DATE: 4/4/2025
With their unpredictable live performances and songs such as "Zurück zum Beton" and "Industriemädchen," S.Y.P.H. caused a ruckus at the end of the '70s -- as one of the bands that began to write lyrics in German around Düsseldorf's Ratinger Hof. Right from the start, the band broke with genre-conformist expectations and borrowed from rock, punk and kraut just as much as from Dadaism and the reality of everyday life. After the first album and several singles, the band produced two more albums -- Pst and S.Y.P.H. -- together with CAN's Holger Czukay. Tapete Records is now releasing both albums and a collection of previously unreleased rarities -- Punkraut 1978-1981.
"Peter Braatz (Harry Rag), Jojo Wolter, Ulli Putsch and myself in 1980 in Can's so-called Innerspace Studio in Weilerswist: what a happening! I probably still don't have the words to describe how I felt. Were we excited? Of course we were -- and then some. It was a non-stop flight to the center of the universe, to the Holy of Holies, way beyond our musical imagination. After all, except for the first LP Monster Movie, this is where all the wonderful masterpieces of the very best international German band that we all love so dearly were created. Pure magic was at work here. Future Days had already been a promise for me when I was still a student -- and now the four of us were right at the center of our musical dreams. We could suddenly play whatever we wanted. Okay, on the first day we were all still pretty tense. But Holger Czukay kept encouraging us and quickly managed to loosen us all up a little. And then the thing took off. So there was always an urgent desire within us to create intuitive music without making agreements up front, where everyone was listening to their inner self and at the same time to their fellow musicians -- that's what the Pst, i.e. 'Shh' is about! -- creating music together in the moment. A free, direct way of composing. The spatial atmosphere of the Innerspace Studio contributed significantly to us being able to realize this wish. The studio as a living musical universe. A large, truly infinite space without barriers, where all four of us were in our element." --Uwe Jahnke
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TR 569LP
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$26.00
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RELEASE DATE: 4/4/2025
LP version. With their unpredictable live performances and songs such as "Zurück zum Beton" and "Industriemädchen," S.Y.P.H. caused a ruckus at the end of the '70s -- as one of the bands that began to write lyrics in German around Düsseldorf's Ratinger Hof. Right from the start, the band broke with genre-conformist expectations and borrowed from rock, punk and kraut just as much as from Dadaism and the reality of everyday life. After the first album and several singles, the band produced two more albums -- Pst and S.Y.P.H. -- together with CAN's Holger Czukay. Tapete Records is now releasing both albums and a collection of previously unreleased rarities -- Punkraut 1978-1981.
"Peter Braatz (Harry Rag), Jojo Wolter, Ulli Putsch and myself in 1980 in Can's so-called Innerspace Studio in Weilerswist: what a happening! I probably still don't have the words to describe how I felt. Were we excited? Of course we were -- and then some. It was a non-stop flight to the center of the universe, to the Holy of Holies, way beyond our musical imagination. After all, except for the first LP Monster Movie, this is where all the wonderful masterpieces of the very best international German band that we all love so dearly were created. Pure magic was at work here. Future Days had already been a promise for me when I was still a student -- and now the four of us were right at the center of our musical dreams. We could suddenly play whatever we wanted. Okay, on the first day we were all still pretty tense. But Holger Czukay kept encouraging us and quickly managed to loosen us all up a little. And then the thing took off. So there was always an urgent desire within us to create intuitive music without making agreements up front, where everyone was listening to their inner self and at the same time to their fellow musicians -- that's what the Pst, i.e. 'Shh' is about! -- creating music together in the moment. A free, direct way of composing. The spatial atmosphere of the Innerspace Studio contributed significantly to us being able to realize this wish. The studio as a living musical universe. A large, truly infinite space without barriers, where all four of us were in our element." --Uwe Jahnke
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TR 571CD
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$16.50
PREORDER
RELEASE DATE: 4/4/2025
With their unpredictable live performances and songs such as "Zurück zum Beton" and "Industriemädchen," S.Y.P.H. caused a ruckus at the end of the '70s -- as one of the bands that began to write lyrics in German around Düsseldorf's Ratinger Hof. Right from the start, the band broke with genre-conformist expectations and borrowed from rock, punk and kraut just as much as from Dadaism and the reality of everyday life. After the first album and several singles, the band produced two more albums -- Pst and S.Y.P.H. (Album 4) -- together with CAN's Holger Czukay. Tapete Records is now releasing both albums and a collection of previously unreleased rarities -- Punkraut 1978-1981.
"This compilation contains rare and previously unreleased recordings from the first three years of the band's history: The songs 'Blech' and 'Mondpogo,' performed live at S.Y.P.H.'s first concert in Düsseldorf's Carsch-Haus in 1978 and five recordings made in nearby Solingen between 1978 and 1979. There are also three studio recordings from the Hamburg Container Studios in December 1981 -- recordings from a time when 'the band had finally abandoned punk as a musical genre as well as the influence of interim producer Holger Czukay and had found a style all of their own." --Kurt Dahlke
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$26.00
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RELEASE DATE: 4/4/2025
LP version. With their unpredictable live performances and songs such as "Zurück zum Beton" and "Industriemädchen," S.Y.P.H. caused a ruckus at the end of the '70s -- as one of the bands that began to write lyrics in German around Düsseldorf's Ratinger Hof. Right from the start, the band broke with genre-conformist expectations and borrowed from rock, punk and kraut just as much as from Dadaism and the reality of everyday life. After the first album and several singles, the band produced two more albums -- Pst and S.Y.P.H. (Album 4) -- together with CAN's Holger Czukay. Tapete Records is now releasing both albums and a collection of previously unreleased rarities -- Punkraut 1978-1981.
"This compilation contains rare and previously unreleased recordings from the first three years of the band's history: The songs 'Blech' and 'Mondpogo,' performed live at S.Y.P.H.'s first concert in Düsseldorf's Carsch-Haus in 1978 and five recordings made in nearby Solingen between 1978 and 1979. There are also three studio recordings from the Hamburg Container Studios in December 1981 -- recordings from a time when 'the band had finally abandoned punk as a musical genre as well as the influence of interim producer Holger Czukay and had found a style all of their own." --Kurt Dahlke
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TR 570CD
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$16.50
PREORDER
RELEASE DATE: 4/4/2025
With their unpredictable live performances and songs such as "Zurück zum Beton" and "Industriemädchen," S.Y.P.H. caused a ruckus at the end of the '70s -- as one of the bands that began to write lyrics in German around Düsseldorf's Ratinger Hof. Right from the start, the band broke with genre-conformist expectations and borrowed from rock, punk and kraut just as much as from Dadaism and the reality of everyday life. After the first album and several singles, the band produced two more albums -- Pst and S.Y.P.H. (Album 4) -- together with CAN's Holger Czukay. Tapete Records is now releasing both albums and a collection of previously unreleased rarities -- Punkraut 1978-1981.
"In the mid-seventies, Uwe Jahnke and Harry Rag had probably founded the first CAN fan club in Germany and, among other things, conducted an interview with Holger Czukay for Harry Rag's school newspaper in 1976. Four years later, fandom made way for collaboration when the band asked the legendary CAN multi-instrumentalist whether he'd be willing to produce the next S.Y.P.H. album. To their astonishment, he accepted. Thus it came about that in 1980, S.Y.P.H. was recording with Czukay in the fabled Innerspace Studio in Weilerswist, where the iconic CAN albums had been created years earlier. Czukay also performed on several tracks, for instance horn, percussion, bass and harmonica on 'Do the Fleischwurst'. These sessions resulted in the two albums Pst and the untitled 4th album. We stumbled into the 'Innerspace', a raucous and shrill punk band in CAN's private recording room. We wanted to develop our musical style, change it, discover new territory, improvise. We wanted to move away from the punk belters and towards something new. Jojo on bass, Uli on drums, Uwe on guitar -- and myself on whatever we could find. Holger would send the signals through the loudspeakers distributed around the room and recorded a lot with several room mics. Most of the recordings were therefore live, only a few overdubs were recorded separately. We probably didn't know exactly what we were doing at the time. After 5 days, the studio days were over and we went home." --Harry Rag
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TR 570LP
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$26.00
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RELEASE DATE: 4/4/2025
LP version. With their unpredictable live performances and songs such as "Zurück zum Beton" and "Industriemädchen," S.Y.P.H. caused a ruckus at the end of the '70s -- as one of the bands that began to write lyrics in German around Düsseldorf's Ratinger Hof. Right from the start, the band broke with genre-conformist expectations and borrowed from rock, punk and kraut just as much as from Dadaism and the reality of everyday life. After the first album and several singles, the band produced two more albums -- Pst and S.Y.P.H. (Album 4) -- together with CAN's Holger Czukay. Tapete Records is now releasing both albums and a collection of previously unreleased rarities -- Punkraut 1978-1981.
"In the mid-seventies, Uwe Jahnke and Harry Rag had probably founded the first CAN fan club in Germany and, among other things, conducted an interview with Holger Czukay for Harry Rag's school newspaper in 1976. Four years later, fandom made way for collaboration when the band asked the legendary CAN multi-instrumentalist whether he'd be willing to produce the next S.Y.P.H. album. To their astonishment, he accepted. Thus it came about that in 1980, S.Y.P.H. was recording with Czukay in the fabled Innerspace Studio in Weilerswist, where the iconic CAN albums had been created years earlier. Czukay also performed on several tracks, for instance horn, percussion, bass and harmonica on 'Do the Fleischwurst'. These sessions resulted in the two albums Pst and the untitled 4th album. We stumbled into the 'Innerspace', a raucous and shrill punk band in CAN's private recording room. We wanted to develop our musical style, change it, discover new territory, improvise. We wanted to move away from the punk belters and towards something new. Jojo on bass, Uli on drums, Uwe on guitar -- and myself on whatever we could find. Holger would send the signals through the loudspeakers distributed around the room and recorded a lot with several room mics. Most of the recordings were therefore live, only a few overdubs were recorded separately. We probably didn't know exactly what we were doing at the time. After 5 days, the studio days were over and we went home." --Harry Rag
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TR 567CD
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With their unpredictable live performances and songs such as "Zurück zum Beton" and "Industriemädchen," S.Y.P.H. caused a ruckus at the end of the '70s -- as one of the bands that began to write lyrics in German around Düsseldorf's Ratinger Hof (German '70s punk club equivalent to CBGB's, where D.A.F. originated). Right from the start, the band broke with genre-conformist expectations and borrowed from rock, punk and kraut just as much as from Dadaism and the reality of everyday life. Now, a reissue series sheds light on S.Y.P.H.'s first creative phase from 1977 to 1982. S.Y.P.H. formed in 1977 in Solingen and began playing concerts in nearby Düsseldorf. Initially clearly based on punk, the band's sound quickly developed and became increasingly difficult to categorize. In the intensive years that followed, S.Y.P.H.'s productions often featured guests from the Düsseldorf scene around Ratinger Hof or CAN's Holger Czukay. This is a collection of the band's early singles: four tracks - including "Industriemädchen" and "Europa" -- were originally released in 1979 on the EP Viel Feind, viel Ehr. Thirteen further tracks -- including "Falsche Freunde" and "Knudelblues II" -- were released in 1982 as Der Bauer im Parkdeck. Three further songs are unreleased.
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TR 567LP
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LP version. With their unpredictable live performances and songs such as "Zurück zum Beton" and "Industriemädchen," S.Y.P.H. caused a ruckus at the end of the '70s -- as one of the bands that began to write lyrics in German around Düsseldorf's Ratinger Hof (German '70s punk club equivalent to CBGB's, where D.A.F. originated). Right from the start, the band broke with genre-conformist expectations and borrowed from rock, punk and kraut just as much as from Dadaism and the reality of everyday life. Now, a reissue series sheds light on S.Y.P.H.'s first creative phase from 1977 to 1982. S.Y.P.H. formed in 1977 in Solingen and began playing concerts in nearby Düsseldorf. Initially clearly based on punk, the band's sound quickly developed and became increasingly difficult to categorize. In the intensive years that followed, S.Y.P.H.'s productions often featured guests from the Düsseldorf scene around Ratinger Hof or CAN's Holger Czukay. This is a collection of the band's early singles: four tracks - including "Industriemädchen" and "Europa" -- were originally released in 1979 on the EP Viel Feind, viel Ehr. Thirteen further tracks -- including "Falsche Freunde" and "Knudelblues II" -- were released in 1982 as Der Bauer im Parkdeck. Three further songs are unreleased.
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TR 568CD
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With their unpredictable live performances and songs such as "Zurück zum Beton" and "Industriemädchen," S.Y.P.H. caused a ruckus at the end of the '70s -- as one of the bands that began to write lyrics in German around Düsseldorf's Ratinger Hof. Right from the start, the band broke with genre-conformist expectations and borrowed from rock, punk and kraut just as much as from Dadaism and the reality of everyday life. Now, a reissue series sheds light on S.Y.P.H.'s first creative phase from 1977 to 1982. S.Y.P.H. formed in 1977 in Solingen and began playing concerts in nearby Düsseldorf. Initially clearly based on punk, the band's sound quickly developed and became increasingly difficult to categorize. In the intensive years that followed, S.Y.P.H.'s productions often featured guests from the Düsseldorf scene around Ratinger Hof or CAN's Holger Czukay. While around 1980, punk and Neue Deutsche Welle (German New Wave) were solidifying as supposedly clear-cut concepts, S.Y.P.H.'s music testified to the blurriness of genre boundaries: already on the first, self-titled LP, the band belts out short punky songs like "Zurück zum Beton" and "Lachleute und Nettmenschen," while the B-side surprises with more than ten-minute long Kraut-inspired pieces.
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Restocked, LP version. With their unpredictable live performances and songs such as "Zurück zum Beton" and "Industriemädchen," S.Y.P.H. caused a ruckus at the end of the '70s -- as one of the bands that began to write lyrics in German around Düsseldorf's Ratinger Hof. Right from the start, the band broke with genre-conformist expectations and borrowed from rock, punk and kraut just as much as from Dadaism and the reality of everyday life. Now, a reissue series sheds light on S.Y.P.H.'s first creative phase from 1977 to 1982. Pure Freude Singles includes previously unreleased songs. S.Y.P.H. formed in 1977 in Solingen and began playing concerts in nearby Düsseldorf. Initially clearly based on punk, the band's sound quickly developed and became increasingly difficult to categorize. In the intensive years that followed, S.Y.P.H.'s productions often featured guests from the Düsseldorf scene around Ratinger Hof or CAN's Holger Czukay. While around 1980, punk and Neue Deutsche Welle (German New Wave) were solidifying as supposedly clear-cut concepts, S.Y.P.H.'s music testified to the blurriness of genre boundaries: already on the first, self-titled LP, the band belts out short punky songs like "Zurück zum Beton" and "Lachleute und Nettmenschen," while the B-side surprises with more than ten-minute long Kraut-inspired pieces.
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Remix-album of German underground cult band S.Y.P.H. Remixes from: Gudrun Gut, Kammerflimmer Kollektief, Schneider TM, Cult With No Name, Gary Lucas, Beate Bartel, Warmer Harscheid and more.
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"Re-release of a German avant garde-punk-classic from 1981. Co-produced by Holger Czukay (Can) it was the counterpart of the Czukay-Album On the Way to the Peak of Normal, in which all the members of S.Y.P.H. also took part. The CD comes with booklet with unreleased photos and extensive liner notes by S.Y.P.H.musicians Harry Rag and Jojo Wolter."
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"As a sequel to Wieleicht this is -- in the original words of D.Diedrichsen -- the fabulous 'White Album' of Germany's underground rock in German. S.Y.P.H.s second offering on the the Ata Tak label and S.Y.P.H.'s last album in more or less its original formation with Harry Rag (vox), Uwe Jahnke (guitar also with Fehlfarben and Toon), Jojo Wolter (bass) and Ralf Bauerfeind instead of Ulli Putsch on drums. In conspiracy with the groups Mittagspause and Fehlfarben S.Y.P.H. projected Germany onto a punk and Neue Deutsche Welle (German New Wave) plane which other groups later dissected and commercialised. S.Y.P.H. is primordial punk, Dada in its best sense as well as Trance-Rock which no 'weed' can beat. Like no other band from the legendary early 80s scene in Düsseldorf, S.Y.P.H. -- (Smashed Yankee Pummels Homo or Save Your Pretty Hearts) -- assimilated influences from Can, the Kinks to Pere Ubu with unrivalled originality and anarchism. S.Y.P.H.s Am Rhein moves playfully in the groove. The long trek from Industriemädchen(Industrial Girl) in the late 70s to Picknick im Grünen (Picknick in the Green) is artfully dealt with. S.Y.P.H. 87 no longer stands out there alone and colossal, but for magicians meandering through 1000 ideas, building bridges from island to island, emptying out the pop marshland's sludge and enabling the essentials to come into view. And somewhere between a psycho pop odyssey and nursery rhymes, their music comes over as completely uncramped -- an aural rural sculpture. The music is a concoction of rock, film, literature and experimental -- it's all there. And yet there is a concept to all this -- a critical standpoint to what officially and what unofficially exists or happens. The group's ingenuity lies in their skill to come out with the absurd without the intellectual need to make sense where it doesn't exist, with a result that the only meaningful element is what remains in the music itself."
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CT 219
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"Original was released in 1980. German punk/new wave group. Remastered by Pyrolator." Classic German abrasion, originally released on the Pure Freude label. First album this by group, later produced by Holger Czukay.
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