allert aalders wrote:
quoted 12 lines Angie G wrote:>Angie G wrote:
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>> Has anyone heard of a label called "Ata Tak"????
>
>Ata Tak was a label for weird "Neue Deutsche Welle". It featured artists
>like Andreas Dorua und die Marinas (who wouldn't do bad as German Mike
>Flower Pops), Holger Hiller and other ppl out of the Palais Schaumburg
>scene. And here we have the connection:
>Palais Schaumburg featured Thomas Fehlmann (now an Orb / Sun Electric ?)
>and Moritz von Oswald (yes, Maurizio of Basic Channel fame). So there's
>the link. I don't have any info on who is running Ata Tak now, or what
>they are doing.
i also don't know whether ata tak still exists, but first and foremost ata
tak (art attack in its original incarnation) was the headquarters of "der
plan" (the german "residents" as they are sometimes called) out of
duesseldorf who were very influential back then when german bands got
interested in fusing electronics with a punk approach in about 1980, later
turning into a pop thingy called "neue deutsche welle". they also released
other stuff, like dorau's debut and the first deutsch amerikanische
freundschaft lp; i'm not sure about their involvement with palais
schaumburg though (gotta check at home).
greets,
p.
on last: mille plateaux 26 (with jaki liebezeit on drums)