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Artist:	VAN OEHLEN
Title:	We Are Eggsperienced
Label:	BLUE CHOPSTICKS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	BLUE 003CD

"Van Oehlen is the duo of Albert and Markus Oehlen. Albert is best known to listeners for his heavy, integral participation in the Red Krayola, while Markus is the drummer of the legendary German punk group Mittagspause. We Are Eggsperienced features contributions from the Red Krayola's Mayo Thompson (singing the album's hit, "Hitrocking") and Tom Watson, as well as German jazz legend Rüdiger Carl (COWWS Quintet and numerous recordings for the FMP label) and Goldenen Zitronen's frontman Schorsch Kamerun. A draft of Albert's New Stream Manifesto was circulated before the Red Krayola's first live performance of Fingerpainting. What is 'new stream' music? New stream is not dissimilar to 'cold jazz', but counts among it's illustrious progenitors the Red Krayola's free-form freakouts, "Revolution No. 9". Sun Ra's most bracingly alien synthesizer solos, and the Deep Freeze Mice at their least musical."

Artist:	VAN OEHLEN
Title:	Rock & Roll Is Here To Die
Label:	BLUE CHOPSTICKS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	BLUE 010CD

"The brothers Oehlen are stellar, oft-decorated visual artists with a long history of thorny, helpful interventions into the world of music. Albert has been a Red Krayola mainstay and provocateur since the mid-1980s, and is also responsible for the fabulous Lelterwagen label. Markus drummed in the legendary German punk band Mittagspause, and records for Leiterwagen under the name Don Hobby. They were there as punk shaded into post-punk and scraped together the Deutschmarks for an analog synth. They're still here as various reissues of DAF, Der Plan, and Palals Schaumburg hang out in 'new releases' sections and find themselves spun by electroclash DJs. And they're still making music as odd, is-that-funny?, and darkly otherworldly as the early Suicide rehearsal tapes that recently saw the light of day."

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