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din a testbild - programm 4 - mannequin - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Wave / Pop / Rock

1. West/Berlin Tegel Airport
2. Cold War
3. Frontstadt
4. West/Berlin Underground
5. Ost Berlin

*Previously unreleased* Programm 4� is the fourth album from this pioneering outfit. Mixed and auto-produced by Mark Eins near the Wall in West/Berlin in 1983, with Manuel G�ttsching as tape engineer. The album was rejected at the time by Innovative Communication for being too �synth/punk/techno� . Here it is for the first time...ever. TIP!

'Programm 4� is their fourth album. Mixed and auto-produced by Mark Eins near the Wall in West/Berlin in 1983, the album was rejected at the time by Innovative Communication, considered too much while the new label managers were looking more into new age stuff. In fact Schulze eventually sold the label in 1983, which started to release a plethora of acts loosely grouped around the NAM genre.

Early pioneers of the German New Wave music scene, Din A Testbild were formed in 1978 by Mark Eins and Gudrun Gut (former member of Einst�rzende Neubauten, Mania D. and Malaria!). Din A Testbild played a significant role in defining the avant-garde music of Berlin. Legendary is their partecipation at the �Festival Genialer Dilletanten" in 1981.

The album was engineered by Manuel G�ttsching (a long time friend of Mark Eins) and remained under the ice for more than 30 years until Mannequin Records head Alessandro Adriani get in touch with Mark Eins and convinced him to show/hear the unreleased album. Recorded with basically the same setup of the previously released number 3 of the serie, �Programm 4� goes even further and faster in pushing the TR-808 and the arpeggios to the limit, imagine a sort of Clara Mondshine on speed or looking to Europe widely in that period we can find many similitudes with Portion Control and Neon Judgement.

Limited edition of 500 copies