play loud! productions is a Berlin-based record label, publishing and film production company founded in 1997 in New York by filmmakers Dietmar Post and Lucia Palacios. They are primarily known for their documentaries on music (Monks, Klangbad, Donna Summer) and politics (Franco’s Settlers, German Pop and Circumstance, Franco on Trial) in addition to fiction short films (Bowl of Oatmeal, Cloven Hoofed). Their films convey multiple perspectives on their subjects with in-depth conversations, allowing viewers to draw their own conclusions.
Like many writers, labels and musicians, play loud! releases their films on their own film and music label. In 2008 the filmmakers started working on a large archive project, the “play loud! (live) music series”, which is based on three precepts: Alan Lomax‘s work as an archivist and chronicler, the BBC radio sessions, and the work of Direct Cinema pioneers, such as the Maysles Brothers, Leacock, Wildenhahn and Pennebaker. Some of the live performances are filmed with only one camera in one continuous shot and without any edits. Some critics have dubbed it “minimalist filmed paintings/painted films”. Musicians who appear in the series include Doc Schoko, Die Regierung, Lydia Lunch, Philipp Petit, Faust, Locust Fudge, Floating di Morel, Camera, Dieter Moebius, Michael Rother, Guru Guru, Limpe Fuchs, Burnt Friedman, Jaki Liebezeit, Christy & Emily, Gebrüder Teichmann, FM Einheit, Hans-Joachim Irmler, Damo Suzuki, Ilpo Väisänen, SchneiderTM, and many more.
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NEW RELEASES AND LATEST NEWS
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Mona Mur In Conversation
The Audience Award 2024 goes to the film Mona Mur in Conversation by Dietmar Post. The 87-minute film traces the biography of the Hamburg-born artist’s work to date, the stages of self-determined creativity that began in West Germany’s early 80s post-punk scene. A cleverly constructed set-up combines speaking in front of the camera, off-camera questions and illustrative visual and audio material to create a captivating narrative of a life lived according to her own ideas without concessions, presented in a dry, straightforward, self-conscious and eloquent manner by a great artist to be (re)discovered. The fact that the film, completed only two days before its screening, received an award from the audience in its protagonist’s hometown the day after its world premiere, can only be described as an amazing feat. (Unerhoert Music Film Festival)
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Mona Mur: Delinquent
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Mona Mur, singer, performer, producer, 80s survivor, presents a new solo album - a collection of 12 Songs in German, in harsh black & white. 12 short stories, blunt statements, Urban Desperado Style. Physically painful, beautiful and brutal as the verities of sheer reality, but also entertaining, danceable and funny.
Radically humane, seductive, disturbing but culinary, the dark elektro pop chansons of Delinquent challenge the impertinence of a present out of tune, where fundamental positions of civility, especially for women, are being questioned again en passant.
Limited edition. Red colored vinyl & CD-Digipack
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Gabi Delgado / Marc Hurtado: NWR
Upcoming
The particular work of NWR is based on the exchange of music and poetry between Gabi Delgado and Marc Hurtado established in the form of dialogues on electronic cards between Germany, Spain and France. A sort of cinematic journey, at the speed of light, carried away in grace, madness, fire and the kaleidoscopic whirlwind of the telescoping of two artists' burning souls.
DoLP (limited to 300 copies) & CD-Digipack
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Mario Verandi: Face against Sky
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While his previous two play loud! productions releases documented various facets of the Argentinian-born artist’s award-winning electronic and electroacoustic work in the past, these eight pieces pick up on the methodology that had already informed 2020’s "Remansum", a turning point in his vast work. Elements from contemporary classical music, avant-garde experimentation, ambient sounds, and intricate rhythms conjure up a unique atmosphere.
Limited to 200 hand-numbered copies. Blue colored vinyl.
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Now Wave - Glowing: Beth B
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Original Soundtrack by Jim Coleman with songs by Annie Bandez and Robert O. Leaver. Specially compiled for the exhibition "NOW WAVE - Glowing" at Silent Green in Berlin (August 15th - August 25th, 2024)
Exhibition catalogue (soft cover, around 80 to 90 pages, 17x24 cm - 6,7x8,26 in) with CD included. Limited to 300 copies.
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The Pleasure Fuckers: Malasana Republic
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Kike's widow Marga Gaffaro and Dietmar Post, one of The Pleasure Fuckers first fans and now of play loud!, compile Malasana Republic, a cohesive collection of unedited, early and live recordings.
Parallel to this LP play loud! is releasing digitally several recordings of the legendary Madrid punk band for the first time ever. Play It Loud!
Limited to 500 copies. Red colored vinyl.
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Familie Hesselbach: Sueddeutschland & Der Untergang des Hauses H.
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Aller guten Vinyl-Dinge sind drei: Nach der Wiederauflage der ersten LP der „Familie Hesselbach“, einer Punk & New Wave Band aus Tuebingen (1980 bis 1985), sowie der Doppel- LP mit Songs der Musikkassette (Froh zu sein) von 1982 und einem 8-EP-Sampler haben wir uns dafuer entschieden, ein drittes Vinyl-Album der „Familie Hesselbach“ auf den Markt zu bringen. Liebhaber der Band haben jetzt die Gelegenheit, ab dem 10. Mai bei der limitierten Auflage der neuen "roten" LP zuzugreifen. First come, first served!
Limited to 300 copies. Red colored vinyl.
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DJ Marcelle/Another Nice Mess: A Different Fridge For Cheese
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play loud! is thrilled to announce the upcoming release of DJ Marcelle/Another Nice Mess new album, which we consider her most experimental and powerful work to date.
After "Explain The Food, Bitte" and "DJ Marcelle: The Musical", "A Different Fridge for Cheese" is her third album being released on play loud!
Limited to 500 copies
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Limpe Fuchs: Amor
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AMOR is Limpe Fuchs’ most openly insightful and vulnerable record to date. As curious as ever, in her light-hearted yet thoughtful manner she explores the upsides and downsides of what it means to be loved or not loved: “At times it’s also sad, that love is the only way, but it is – at least it’s what I experienced and experience to this day.”
Holger Adam
Limited to 300 copies
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Die Regierung: ...so allein & 80er Kassettenaufnahmen
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play loud! is releasing a limited edition of the original album "...so allein" plus a second LP with 80s cassette recordings by Tilman Rossmy.
Limited to 300 copies
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Michael Vincent Waller: Moments Remixes
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Michael Vincent Waller is an influential American composer of contemporary music based in New York City. Moments Remixes feat. Moor Mother, Jlin, DJ Marcelle, XiuXiu, Yu Su, Fennesz, Loraine James, Prefuse 73, Lex Luger, Jefrey Cantu, Lafawndah, Carmen Villian, Levon Vincent, Tom VR & Ka Baird.
Limited to 300 copies. Teal colored vinyl.
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Gods Gift: Turn All The Lights Out
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play loud! releases the entire recordings of the Manchester post-punk band Gods Gift (1979-1985), some for the first time ever. In heavy rotation at the BBC in the early 80s. Mark E. Smith was a fan too. Gods Gift guitar player Steve Murphy compiled 11 songs for what will be their first LP ever. Includes DVD (NTSC, region-free) with a live show in Rotterdam and extensive liner notes and lyrics plus a postcard.
Limited to 500 copies
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Roky Erickson - All That May Do My Rhyme
NOW ON WHITE VINYL
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play loud! productions present the first reissue of Roky Erickson's All That May Do My Rhyme, originally released on CD, MC and vinyl in 1994 on Paul Leary’s Trance Syndicate label. Forced Exposure writes: "This is no cheap live tape, crummy reissue, nor a slimy bootleg. This is the real thing."
Limited to 500 copies
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Mona Mur: Warsaw
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play loud! continues the publication of Mona Mur´s back catalog by releasing her album WARSAW for the first time worldwide, digitally and on vinyl.
Limited to 300 copies
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Familie Hesselbach: Froh zu sein & 8-EP-Sampler
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Double LP (Tape 1982 & 8-EP-Sampler) with 2 inlays with photos and liner notes by Frank Apunkt Schneider
Limited to 300 copies
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The Art Ensemble of Chicago:
Les Stances à Sophie
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This new limited edition LP reissue from play loud! productions, supplemented with new notes by U.S. music journalist Chris Morris, returns the Art Ensemble's free jazz classic to print after an absence of nearly two decades.
Limited to 1000 copies
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Alan Vega
Live at Rockpalast (1982)
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It comes with an eight-page booklet and a DVD containing the entire live show at Rockpalast in 1982 plus a film about the Alan Suicide Collison Drive exhibition at Deitch Projects in New York in 2002 and a long conversation with Alan Vega.
For the first time on vinyl LP and DVD (NTSC, region-free, plays worldwide)
Limited to 1000 copies
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Mona Mur
The Original Band (1984-86)
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In fall 1984, Mona Mur formed a new band with FM Einheit and Alexander Hacke, joined by "Flucht nach Vorn" keyboardist Nikko Weidemann (today "Moka Efti Orchestra"), Siewert Johannsen (guitar, "Stricher") and Thomas Stern (bass, "Crime and the City Solution"). This "Mona Mur Band" was recorded and mixed live by Raymond "Nainz" Watts ("Einstürzende Neubauten", "Psychic TV", "KMFDM") at his Building Site studio in Hamburg. The band broke up in the spring of '86 and these recordings, made in 1984 - 1986, were never released... until now.
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DJ Marcelle/Another Nice Mess
DJ Marcelle: The Musical
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Tina Turner. Princess Diana. Johan Cruijff. Jesus, Abba. Spider-Man. Jerry Springer. Mormons. A brothel. Monty Python. A gay remake of Shakespeare. Anne Frank. Nothing and no-one seem to be able to escape the claws of the musical industry. So it's no real surprise that the last woman standing, DJ Marcelle/Another Nice Mess, has also fallen to this ill faith.
The album, after last year's 'Explain The Food, Bitte' her second one on play loud! productions, is as surprising and up-to-date as ever.
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It´s Up To You
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Improvised live music by Limpe Fuchs, Friedrich Gulda, Paul Fuchs, Ursula Anders, Barre Phillips, Albert Mangelsdorff, Munir Baschir, Gerhard Herrmann and Leszek Zadlo
Originally released in 1974 on Preiser Records
Limited to 300 copies.
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Charles Wilp & Yves Klein
Prince of Space / Tanz der Leere
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Hand-numbered. With extensive liner notes, photographs, postcard, and an 8-page facsimile of a 1974 Charles Wilp exhibit in London related to "Tanz der Leere". Re-issued for the first time.
Limited to 100 copies.
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Mona Mur
The FERMI Paradox
Available for download
The Fermi Paradox is a choice-driven sci-fi narrative strategy game in which your decisions in one corner of the galaxy can upend entire civilizations in another. The Original Electronic Ambient Soundtrack created by MONA MUR playfully follows the evolutionary steps of developing civilizations and their spiritual, technological, and energetic trajectories.
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Floating Di Morel
Starting The Pranks
Available for download
Don´t miss the new digital single and video by Berlin based Floating Di Morel!
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Mario Verandi: Eight pieces for the Buchla 100 Series
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CD limited to 150 copies
Mario Verandi´s album invites us to a journey through the amazing sounds of the historic Buchla 100 modular synthesizer developed in the early 1960´s. An album with eight tracks of experimental minimal electronic music created with an extraordinary and rare modular analog synthesizer.
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Mona Mur: The RCA Album
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LP limited to 500 copies, 100 of them hand-numbered and signed by MM
The 2021 re-reissue is remastered by EN ESCH (KMFDM, Pigface), comes in a new running order with a special version of "Jealous" and a bonus track, "Venus 2020", featured as credits's song of the upcoming Monika Treut movie "Genderation" (2021).
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Dr. Drexler Project
Leistungsbilanzueberschuesse
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DR. DREXLER project & G.Rag/Zelig
The protest song is back. The Dr. Drexler project operates from the Southern German town of Augsburg, birthplace of Bertolt Brecht. The collective's sound is modernized post-punk. Rhythms for the dancefloor. Snarling bass, chiselled beats, sharp-edged guitars and gritty lyrics that give voice to angry times.
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Dr. Drexler Project
Kapitalakkumulation
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Numbered, w/ 16page booklet 21x21cm black&white with neonprint
The protest song is back. The Dr. Drexler project operates from the Southern German town of Augsburg, birthplace of Bertolt Brecht. The collective's sound is modernized post-punk. Rhythms for the dancefloor. Snarling bass, chiselled beats, sharp-edged guitars and gritty lyrics that give voice to angry times.
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DJ Marcelle/Another Nice Mess
Explain The Food, Bitte
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LP limited to 500 copies
DJ Marcelle/Another Nice Mess is that rare combination of things: fearless, innovative, playful, independent, unpredictable and funny. Her third album in just over two years is as versatile as ever. Steelpan (!) dancehall goes hand in hand with off the wall techno and weird avant garde.
Join Marcelle in her unique musical universe.
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The Charles Wilp Archive
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The Charles Wilp Archive is a new play loud! series dedicated to reissuing the music and audio work of German artist Charles Wilp.
Charles Paul Wilp (Witten 1932 – Düsseldorf 2005) was a German advertising designer, artist, photographer and filmmaker. Wilp developed some of the most important campaigns of the 1960s and 1970s, among his clients he had Pirelli, Volkswagen and Afri-Cola.
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Familie Hesselbach
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It was sold out for a long time. Until now. The first LP by Familie Hesselbach from Tübingen. Recorded and produced in the summer of 1982. Limited to 400 copies in white cover and 100 copies in spray-painted black cover.
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Anima-Sound im Lungau
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Strictly limited to 500 copies.
"The best Anima album ever" (Limpe Fuchs)
For all Limpe Fuchs and Anima-Sound releases on play loud! visit our Limpe Fuchs Archive
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Floating Di Morel
Summer Has Become Cold
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Strictly limited to 300 numbered silkscreen copies by artist Tim Stapel.
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Tapetopia 003
East German Underground Tapes (1984-1989)
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Tapetopia is a series of vinyl releases based on cassettes from the East Germany’s 80s underground, particularly from the East Berlin „Mauerstadt“ music scene, featuring original lay-outs and track lists. For over 30 years after their initial “release” the music on these tapes was neither available on vinyl nor CD, but they were important statements in the canon of the GDR subculture.
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Tapetopia 002
East German Underground Tapes (1984-1989)
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Tapetopia is a series of vinyl releases based on cassettes from the East Germany’s 80s underground, particularly from the East Berlin „Mauerstadt“ music scene, featuring original lay-outs and track lists. For over 30 years after their initial “release” the music on these tapes was neither available on vinyl nor CD, but they were important statements in the canon of the GDR subculture.
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Tapetopia 001
East German Underground Tapes (1984-1989)
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Tapetopia is a series of vinyl releases based on cassettes from the East Germany’s 80s underground, particularly from the East Berlin „Mauerstadt“ music scene, featuring original lay-outs and track lists. For over 30 years after their initial “release” the music on these tapes was neither available on vinyl nor CD, but they were important statements in the canon of the GDR subculture.
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Music Is The Most Beautiful Language In The World - Yiddisher Jazz in London’s East End 1920s to 1950s
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A vibrant soundtrack to the Cockney Jewish experience, when the swinging hot dance bands were still all the rage, and the Yiddish language was spoken on the streets of Whitechapel. Feast on long forgotten 78 rpm discs that have only recently been unearthed, starring a host of recording artists united for the first time on ‘chai fidelity’ vinyl, CD and now also for worldwide digital distribution on play loud! productions.
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Glen - Crack
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GLEN was formed in 2015 in Berlin by multi instrumentalist and film score composer Wilhelm Stegmeier and greek visual artist, film maker and musician Eleni Ampelakiotou.
"This is a little gem of an album!" (music blog Dayz of Purple and Orange)
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Bunte Truppe - Träumen ohne Dinge
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limpe fuchs: perkussion, röhrophon, viola, stimme
ruth-maria adam: violine, stimme elektronisch
ronnie oliveras: elektronisch erweitertes zeux, klarinette
ignaz schick: plattenspieler, elektronik, digitale schleifen
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Locust Fudge - Oscillation
LP+CD and download available here
Locust Fudge is back after 20 years!
On their album Oscillation Locust Fudge grab the roots of what later was to be called 'Indierock’, turn them upside down and combine them with sometimes unusual & surprising elements to rewrite it’s history in the most organic way and beam it into the future.
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Die Regierung: Live at Berghain
Available as video streaming & music download
Filmmakers and archivists Dietmar Post & Lucía Palacios filmed the DIE REGIERUNG show especially for the "play loud! (live) music series" in 2017 at Club Berghain (Kantine) in Berlin.
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Die Regierung: So drauf + Unten
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play loud! presents the re-release of
a) UNTEN (1994), published for the first time on vinyl and
b) SO DRAUF (1992) with two bonus songs not included on the original LP
Strictly limited to 500 copies.
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Anima in two films by Helga Tiedemann
Available as video streaming
Film 01
Anima-Sound: Mit 20km/h durch Europa (1972)
Featuring: Limpe and Paul Fuchs
Duration: 34:48 min
Film 02
In Festival: Gruppe Anima in Salzburg (1973)
Featuring: Limpe Fuchs, Paul Fuchs and Friedrich Gulda
Duration: 43:34 min
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Limpe Fuchs: trampelpfadnomainroad
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This music selection (1977-2017) was compiled for the exhibit trampelpfadnomainroad at Städtische Galerie Traunstein
All compositions by play loud! publishing
Drawings by Limpe Fuchs
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Damo Suzuki & Sound Carriers
Double LP, download and film available here
These instant compositions were played, recorded and filmed on November 24th, 2011 at Marie-Antoinette in Berlin.
The film was shot in one continuous take and will be also shown at selected movie theaters.
The band played one continuous song, which now is split in four parts for the release of one double vinyl album.
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Floating di Morel / ULF
LP and download available here
The Berlin based band Floating di Morel releases their new record again on play loud!. After "Said My Say", "Goal Less Play" and the inclusion in the "play loud! (live) music series" this will be their fifth studio record.
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Ende vom Lied - East German Underground Sound 1979 - 1990
LP, CD and download available here
Ende vom Lied is a genre-spanning collection of punk, post-punk and avant-garde bands from the former East Germany, chronicling the work of free spirits pitted against government restraints and implied genre limitations.
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Whirly Bird / Oscillations - reissue of the first Silver Apples single
Single and download available here
This is the first re-issue of the first 7“ vinyl single by Silver Apples, one of the most influential electronic music groups of all times. Originally released in 1968 on Kapp Records. Re-mastered and fully authorized by the band and the record label.
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UFO - reissue of the legendary album by Guru Guru
LP and download available here
Guru Guru were related to the free jazz music scene both through their work with Swiss pianist Irène Schweizer and through Neumeier, who had already won several jazz prizes. The band was also influenced by psychedelic rock artist, such as Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown, Rolling Stones and early Pink Floyd. Among the band's friends were Amon Düül, Can and Xhol Caravan, with whom Guru Guru played jam sessions.
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Gestrüpp - Limpe Fuchs
LP and download available here
Limpe Fuchs writes about her work on Gestrüpp
I am a composer and performer of acoustic and visual events. In the studio I am lacking the visual element. Therefore I like to work with multitracking. As a soloist I listen to my field recordings and integrate them into my new compositions. I do love radio plays and that is how I create a sort of audio theatre with the aid of my very special instruments and noises.
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Monte Alto - reissue of one of the best Anima albums
LP and download available here
First reissue of Monte Alto, presented in an elaborate silkscreen print, hand-numbered, and limited to 500 copies, co-released by Play Loud! Productions and Youdonthavetocallitmusic.
The album Monte Alto was released in 1977 on the band-owned label Alter Pfarrhof. It may be the best Anima album ever, if for no other reason than the wonderful freely improvised piano piece on the B-side.
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Die Regierung - Double Album
Supermüll 1984 + Tribute
Double LP and download available here
play loud! is releasing as a 500 copy limited edition a double LP with the original album "Die Regierung - Supermüll 1984" plus the "Tribute Album Supermüll 2015". Music critic Michael Ruff called the record "the best German record of the 80s".
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Die Regierung Live 1994 - Double Album
Double LP and download available here
play loud! is also releasing a double live album that was recorded during the heyday of Die Regierung in 1994. The album will contain interviews with the former members and unseen band photographs.
Limited to 500 copies.
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Franco on Trial
DVD available here
Could a prosecution in Argentina become the last major trial against a 20th century fascist dictatorship?
Franco on Trial: The Spanish Nuremberg? is the new documentary by Lucía Palacios and Dietmar Post. After the success of Franco´s Settlers, their first encounter with Franco’s dictatorship, they now tackle one of the most undisclosed chapters of European history: the allegedly organized extermination that took place in Spain under General Franco’s fascist dictatorship between 1936 and 1975. To this day no one has been prosecuted for the regime’s systematic atrocities. Now for the first time, an Argentinian judge, María Servini, has issued 24 international arrest warrants against representatives of the Franco dictatorship.
Franco on Trial raises the question: will the so-called “Argentinian Complaint” become the Spanish Nuremberg?
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Franco´s Settlers
DVD available here
Award-winning documentary film about a small Spanish village that keeps paying tribute to its creator Francisco Franco. Franco's Settlers makes an entire country look at itself in the mirror.
In 2018 Post and Palacios released the DVD of the film which was accompanied by a book titled Franco´s Settlers: An example of the marginalization of the investigative documentary. They hope to open up a discussion based on the function and significance of the documentary in democratic societies and how neoliberalism has influenced the aesthetic and content of documentary films.
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German Pop and Circumstance
Video streaming available here
A documentary about the interplay between pop culture and extreme right ideology, which reflects the development of nationalist music since the late 1970s in Germany.
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