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ARTIST
TITLE
Keiner Kann Uns Ab
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CD

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TR 545CD TR 545CD
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RELEASE DATE
3/15/2024

Brausepöter (Martin Lück, Bernd Hanhardt and Kemper) were founded in 1978 in East Westphalia and were originally called Nordwest Germanes Eiterlager, NWE for short. Brilliant name, but Brausepöter isn't bad either! This makes them one of the first German punk bands -- punk in the true sense of the word, or as the US fanzine Maximum Rocknroll put it: "It's indie punk in the purest John Peel sense" or, as Martin Lück put it, "We always wanted to take all the rock out of our music." Brausepöter released their last regular album Nerven geschädigt in 2019. The punk magazine FAZ titled their review "The new Brausepöter record shows what punk means today." For them, Brausepöter is "a German band that was unfortunately too good to become as famous as Trio or Die Toten Hosen." Spiegel Online also liked Nerven geschädigt: "In its radical disinterest in everything that is possible and promising, Brausepöter's music seems even more consistent today than it did back then." The lost 1979 album Keiner kann uns ab is now being released. Originally the record, recorded with a cassette recorder in '79, was supposed to be released by ZickZack, but nothing came of it. Did the tape get lost in the post? Were the recordings too good? Or too radical even for ZickZack? If Keiner kann uns ab had actually been released back then, who knows, perhaps today the album would be mentioned in the same breath as Monarchie und Alltag, Amok Koma, or Slime's debut. But maybe not, because the Brausepöter sound is too unique, too ramshackle, too DIY -- closer to the TVPs, closer to The Fall or closer to the early Mekons than to all the punk rock bands. Brausepöter are simply "indie punk in the purest John Peel sense."