Felix Kubin shares insights into the German home-recording tape scene between 1981 and 1993.

In the late 1970s, the German music scene was shaken up by a virtual explosion of new bands that sounded radically different to anything that had come before. They played music that was experimental, playful, absurd, minimalist and astute, with lyrics that were sung – or more commonly screamed – exclusively in German. Small labels like ZickZack and Ata Tak started to release records by these young artists who were springing up like mushrooms. The independent record label was born. The spirit of this new movement – later branded Neue Deutsche Welle – emerged from a collision between the self-confident attitude of punk, the legacy of Germany's electronic avantgarde and a belief in the imminence of an atomic apocalypse. Featuring interviews with Alfred Hilsberg (founder of ZickZack records) and Frank Apunkt Schneider (author of the book "Als die Welt noch unterging" - When the world was still on the verge of downfall).

About Felix Kubin

Felix Kubin is a composer, creator of radio plays, performer, media artist and curator. He began recording and performing electronic new wave music at the age of 12. After a period of post-industrial experiments in the early 90s he turned to futuristic pop music and launched the independent record label “Gagarin Records” in 1998. Over the past two decades he has performed at many international festivals and museums including MoMA PS1, Sonar, Transmediale, CTM, Unsound, Wien Modern, Märzmusik, Présences électroniques, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume and Ars Electronica.