play loud! productions announce the up-coming release of two new films by dietmar post & lucia palacios and the first ever reissue of the one and only faust 7" single from 1972.    pl-18                                                         pl-19     pl-20    Official Movie Site    play loud! on MySpace Info (long form) From the makers of “ monks: the transatlantic feedback ” (German Adolf Grimme Award 2008) come two new direct cinema style documentary films. One about the pop avant-garde music festival Klangbad, curated by legendary Hans Joachim Irmler (founding member of the seminal Krautrock band Faust) and the second one captures one of the rare live performances by Faust. The drawings for the DVD artwork are again from famous German painter Daniel Richter. Artwork by Lucía Palacios. T...

Cold Cave on Floating Di Morel Floating di Morel - More Memory Than Now (pl-09 ) Incredible album from the unsung Germans, one half of the group T.A.S.K. So simple and assured and depressing. Obviously in Velvets-via-German-underground territory, but less rock ‘n’ roll and more on the folkier morose end. Really worth finding is the rest of their recordings, particularly the 7” “2,” which is more effected and heavier, but still very opiated. all FdM releases available here

Doc Schoko  mit aktuellem Album "schlecht dran / gut drauf" wird auf Einladung von Herrn  Jochen Distelmeyer  persönlich als Vorgruppe bei folgenden Konzerten dabei sein: 12.2. magdeburg moritzhof 13.2. dresden scheune 14.2. rostock zwischenbau Hier der Film-Trailer zu seiner aktuellen LP: http://www.playloud.org/docschoko.html Das Berliner TIP-MAGAZIN schreibt begeistert: Oden ans prekäre Leben Doc Schoko ist ein toller Künstler, leider kennen ihn viel zu wenige! Deshalb ist der Sänger, Songwriter und Gitarrist schlecht dran, darüber sing er seine Lieder. Kraftzehrende Oden ans prekäre Berliner Leben. Mal direkt und rau, dem hehren Rock´n´Roll verschrieben und dann wieder versponnen und ausufernd, wie das herausragende Stück des Albums, das Krautrock-Epos „Oktopus im Pentagramm“. Den trotzigen Vertreter der deutschsprachigen Liederschmiedkunst unterstützten bei seinen elf Kompositionen, nebst bärbeißiger Hausband, u.a. Kristof Schreuf von Kolossale Jugend,...

Concert Review / FM Einheit & Hans-Joachim Irmler Live at Berghain, Berlin, November 29th.                   The „Elektroakustischer Salon“ is not a very bourgeois 'salon', you have to admit. After the Moritz von Oswald Trio and Sunn o))), the 2009-2010 series presents a peculiar duo made up of FM Einheit and Hans-Joachim Irmler.  FM Einheit aka Mufti aka FM (Frank Martin Strauss) was a key member of the industrial noise band Einstürzende Neubauten until he left the group in the mid-90s ('boredom' was one reason for leaving, he says). Claiming to hear things other people wouldn't notice, he is always looking for particular sounds to fit his ideas and he usually finds them by behaving ferociously with industrial construction elements and various tools and devices. Einstürzende Neubauten concerts were parades of custom-made instruments and today, FM is a radical representative of this approach, collaborating with different peo...

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ARTROCKER: WHAT'S BEEN THE HIGH POINT OF THE DECADE FOR YOU? ALEC: Working with The Monks on a collaboration track for their documentary film Transatlantic Feedback. I have been a fan since my teenage years. Discovered them through John Peel. There was a moment, where I actually had tears in my eyes, listening to our finished track. I am a huge music fan and that I had the chance to meet and work with them made this decade for me! Joe Strummer from The Clash watching and loving my last show ever with Atari Teenage Riot in Australia was another one of these moments. READ FULL INTERVIEW

Zündfunk-Monatscharts Die Topp Träxx im Dezember '09 Die amtliche Liste der besten Singles im Dezember, ausgegeben von der Zündfunk-Musikredaktion. Ganz oben stehen zweimal Kalifornien und einmal Neuseeland. 01.  DEVENDRA BANHART  16th & Valencia, Roxy Music Warner 02.  THE ELECTRIC WIRE HUSTLE  They Don´t Want Every Waking Hour / iTunes 03.  MAYER HAWTHORNE  Green Eyed Love Stones Throw/Groove Attack 04.  JAMES PANTS   Thin Moon Stones Throw/Groove Attack 05.  A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS  Exploding Head Mute / EMI 06.  DOC SCHOKO  Schlecht Dran / Gut Drauf Play Loud / Alive 07.  THE ETTES  Take It With You KNTRST / Universal 08.  ROYAL BANGS  My Car Is Haunted CitySlang / Universal 09.  MUMFORD & SONS  Little Lion Man V2 / Cooperative / Universal 10.  DUKE & THE KING  If You Ever Get Famous (Zündfunk unplugged) Loose Music / Rough Trade

Gossip: Mönchs-Quickie sorgt für Jubel Helle Freude im Gossip-Lager: Ihre Coverversion des Monks-Songs "Drunken Maria" erscheint mit einem Song der legendären Post-Punk-Band The Raincoats auf einer Splitsingle. Splitsingle mit den eigenen Helden: Gossip. Konstanz ( mis ) - " Ein Gossip-Traum ist wahr geworden! ", tweetete die US-Band gestern aufgeregt per Facebook. " Unser Monks-Cover wurde für eine Splitsingle auserwählt und nun sind wir auf einer Platte mit The Raincoats. " 2006 steuerte die Band um Sängerin Beth Ditto den Song "Drunken Maria" zum Tribute-Sampler "Silver Monk Time" bei, der das Schaffen der visionären 60s-Beat-Band The Monks einer neuen Generation vorstellte (siehe Interview in den Surftipps). Mit von der Partie war auch die britische All Female-Post-Punk-Band The Raincoats, deren Fankreis mit Sonic Youth, Gang Of Four, Chicks On Speed und dem queeren Gossip-Ensemble stets glamouröser klang als ...

play loud!'s new vinyl release will be ready for shipping this week.  _______________________________________________________                                         pl-06 Floating di Morel "Said My Say" (12" Vinyl; Limited to 500)   pl-07 Doc Schoko "schlecht dran / gut drauf" (12" Vinyl; Limited to 500) pl-08 Gossip / The Raincoats (7" vinyl)  NOW READY FOR SHIPPING

Dear Monks fans in Spain, please check out the imminent screening of "monks - the transatlantic feedback" at NEU! CLUB in Madrid. Could it be more a ppropriate  to show a film in a club that was named after one of the seminal German krautrock bands? MONKS - FAUST - AMON DÜÜL - KRAFTWERK - CAN - NEU! Aquí hay una pieza de TVE 2 sobre el documental "monks - the transatlantic feedback" And please check out the brand new play loud! release: pre-order at info@playloud.org

play loud! (live) music series (up-coming launch) play loud! productions will launch together with the new records (vinyl/download) by Floating di Morel (Said My Say) (pl-06) and by Doc Schoko (Schlecht Dran/Gut Drauf) (pl-07)  a (live) music series that introduces current bands in concerts, during rehearsals, at home or in the studio. Fans will have the choice between a full video and/or audio only download.    Floating di Morel performing 6 songs (live) at their home studio,  a film by Dietmar Post & Lucia Palacios  (32 min, 2009, video & audio download)   Doc Schoko (live) at Volksbühne Berlin in 2007 performing a version of  "Oktopus im Pentagramm", a film by Dietmar Post & Lucia Palacios  (8 min, 2009, video & audio download) STAY TUNED FOR MORE BANDS ON "play loud! (live) music series"

play loud! will release a new 7" vinyl single drunken maria / monk chant  - Gossip / The Raincoats  (pl-08) (single 7"/DOWNLOAD) Artwork by Lucia Palacios (play loud!)             First statements by band members are enthusiastic: THE RAINCOATS: "The idea for the single with Gossip is a match made in heaven". GOSSIP: "A dream come true". release ready for the GOSSIP world tour in late October please pre-order at info@playloud.org both songs are taken from the double cd "silver monk time - a tribute to the monks" (pl-02) Gossip The Raincoats & The Monks performing together "Monk Chant"  in October 2006 at Volksbühne Berlin after the film premiere of "Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback"