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Artist:	MALARIA!
Title:	Compiled 1981-1984
Label:	MOABIT MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	MOABIT 006CD

Repressed; 2001 year release which compiles 16 tracks from all their early releases, originally released 1981-84. Malaria were an all-female art-wave group from Berlin, with connections to Die Haut, Einsturzende, Nina Hagen, Static, etc. A seminal early 80s document. "Contagious diseases, uncertain modes of transmission: Malaria evolved from Mania D., a trio that had already gained a following even without music through their style and artwork. When they expanded into a quintet, they not only retained the first two letters, recurring in medieval, mask, magister artium and mama, they also kept a world of signifiers: heat, illness, fever, ill-defined states. At the time, the beat and the saxophone, which signalled the continuity of both bands, could only be comprehended through inevitable misunderstandings and other contemporary beats and sounds. And -- like an italicised letter -- they incarnated the promise contained in the title: elusive funk, undeveloped jazz, an unresolved and strained insistence on a difference for which no words existed at the time, and certainly no music that one could put a name to." -- Diedrich Diederichsen. Malaria! were: Gudrun Gut, Bettina Koster, Susanne Kuhnke, Christine Han, Manon Duursma.

Artist:	GUT, GUDRUN
Title:	Members of the Oceanclub
Label:	MOABIT MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	MOABIT 015CD

Double CD for the price of one (reissue of a 1996 album, plus 2nd CD of remixes by Thomas Fehlmann, The Orb, Ellen Allien, and more) from Berlin's Gudrun Gut. Gudrun currently runs the Monika label, was a early member of Einsturzende Neubauten and most famously founded the 1980s band Malaria! She has collaborated with Blixa Bargeld, Anita Lane, Thomas Fehlmann, etc. "The summer of 1994, a flat share in Berlin's Potsdamerstraße and it's blazing hot. Back then I was busy tinkering with some simple bass loops on my computer and my loop machine. The speakers helped to spread the loops across the entire flat, a perfect match for the relaxed summer feel. Laurie said: 'it's like being under water, in the ocean.' An ocean club -- all of a sudden, my future had a new home. After years and years of playing in bands I wanted to pursue my own visions -- but continue to work with friends. I wanted to create a loose collective, an open club for members: Members of the Oceanclub. I locked myself in the studio with longtime Australian friend Anita Lane and the loops became tracks. Johnny Klimek loved the result and offered to help out on production. In Inga Humpe I rediscovered an old friend from the 80s at the E-Werk and we decided to re-explore the strange power of the butterfly. My work was beginning to take shape. Further new members included Danielle de Picciotto and my Malaria and Matador sidekick Manon P. Duursma, I also invited Katharina Franck, Jovanka von Willsdorf (Quarks) and Jayney Klimek and, naturally, included a track by my Miasma partner Myra Davis. In the end, we also needed the obligatory male joker: my Schöneberg neighbour and old partner in crime Blixa Bargeld joined me in an homage to the sun, adding additional sparkle to the ladies' circle. In 1996 the resulting album Members of the Ocean Club was finally released by Alternation. By now the Oceanclub network spans the entire globe, and I am very proud to reintroduce you to its beginnings with this double CD. The remixes featured on CD 2 were only ever released on vinyl and, like the original recordings, have long been discontinued." -- G.Gut, Berlin July 2004. Remixers include, Klaus Schulze, Paul van Dyk, Thomas Fehlmann, Johnny Klimek, Ian Pooley, Orb, Spinout Butterfliege, Ellen Allien, Corbra.

Artist:	DAVIES, MYRA
Title:	Cities and Girls
Label:	MOABIT MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	MOABIT 017CD

Canadian spoken-word artist Myra Davies presents Cities and Girls, a fresh collection of witty stories. As with their Miasma trilogy, Davies' stories have been set to music by Gudrun Gut (Malaria!), as well as Beate Bartel (Liaisons Dangereuses) and the team of Danielle de Picciotto/Alexander Hacke (Einstürzende Neubauten, Sprung Aus Den Wolken, M.D.K., Crime & The City Solution), who provide the musical accompaniment on two tracks. Berlin electronica is the warp in which Davies weaves reportage on global life in the early 21st century. Cities and Girls are prevalent themes. Even though she currently resides amidst The Rocky Mountains, Davies asserts that "the city is our social heart and creative core." She also addresses modern issues in girlhood, such as the tenuousness of abortion rights in the U.S., as well as those girls who have passed on before us: in fact, there are several dead people walking around in this album. The stories on Cities and Girls range widely in time and space. For the composers, the challenge was to find musical ideas that support specific story settings and also ground the track within the album as a whole.

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