Geniale Dilletanten — Berlin underground — Tape Collection

Geniale Dilletanten — Subkultur der 1980er-jahre in Deutschland

Geniale Dilletanten was the term used to announce a concert held in Berlin’s Tempodrom in 1981. The deliberately misspelled title has become synonymous with the brief era of artistic upheaval in Germany between 1979 and ’84. Developed particularly in and around art schools, strong subculture scenes formed in many German cities. With their use of brute noise, provocative Super 8 films, cheap photocopied fanzines, independently produced samples, design that challenged “good taste,” and a new, wild language for figurative painting and sculpture, these artists opposed the prevailing zeitgeist in Germany. Emphasis was placed on expression rather than technical perfection, artistic impact rather than skill. These players probed the possibilities of total opposition with the same vehemence they directed against official policy and the legacy of the ’68 generation. Loud protests and deliberate provocation helped this alternative artistic scene gain international recognition before it petered out in commercialism as the Neue Deutsche Welle (New German Wave).
The movement’s players met in clubs and venues such as the Ratinger Hof (Dusseldorf), the record store Rip Off (Hamburg), Kumpelnest, SO36 and Risiko (Berlin) or at the barber shop Penny Lane (Cologne) to play and listen to music, drink and dance, or develop new ideas. 

At the same time, Rainer Fetting, Salomé, Markus Oehlen and Jörg Immendorff expressed in their painting the close relationship between the music and club scenes and the art scene. Markus Oehlen was also a musician and cassette DJ at Ratinger Hof. The painters intervened creatively in the events and also took advantage of such crude spaces in order to counter, by pictorial means, the music with something analogous.

Das Cassetten Combinat

Profile:

Very shortlived but influencial german cassette label, production company (O.U.T. Production), studio (Combinatsstudio) and shop from West Berlin, run mostly by the Kiddy Citny and Leffy Leffringhausen in 1981, but also sometimes by other members of Ohne Unter Titel. 
In 1980 Leffy bought a Teac 144 4-track recorder and they obtained the sound padding, when the West Berlin club "Excess" closed. Soon after the opened their 30 square meters basement studio. Everybody could record there for just 100 DM per day. 
Interested artists could have their work published, promoted and distributed via their label.
In the tiny shop they also sold selected other tape releases, e.g. the work of Klar! 80. 
Their shop closed in early 1982, so did the label. 
In 1982 it was reformed as Das Cassettencombinat by Thomas Schmitt and Thomas Scholz.


Contact Info:

Das Cassetten Combinat 
Naumannstr. 3 
1000 Berlin 62 
Tel. 030/7811767 
(now invalid)


[81021] Borsig Werke ‎– S.J. (1981)
Cassette | C20 | Germany
tape 24-Bit/96kHz

[81023] Ohne.Unter.Titel  ‎– In aller Munde (1981)
Cassette | C30 | Germany
tape 24-Bit/96kHz

[81030] Meisterwerk ‎– s/t (1981)
Cassette | C20 | Germany
tape 24-Bit/96kHz

[81018] Sprung aus den Wolken ‎– s/t (1981)
Cassette | C30 | Germany
tape 24-Bit/96kHz

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Various ‎– Fernab Vom Gleichgewicht / Berlin Atonal (1982)
Cassette | Compilation | C90
Stechapfel Produktion ‎– K031 | Germany
tape 24-Bit/96kHz


Tape digitization source:

Playback Device: AIWA AD-F 990
ADC: TASCAM UH-7000
Digitizer: Audacity 2.3 (OS X)
Processing: normalization, leveling channels on some tapes.


thanks to the original uploaders —


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