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ARTIST
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Punkraut 1978-1981
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CD

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TR 571CD TR 571CD
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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. (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