Another compilation on NDW? Reading through the names, you might think that »Eins und Zwei und Drei und Vier« doesn’t necessarily bring new insights fom this subject: Der Plan, Palais Schaumburg, Andreas Dorau and Foyer des Arts are already known to halfway inclined listeners. On the other hand, what about Die Partei? Populäre Mechanik? Die Fische? Carambolage? Okay, friends of the Bureau B imprint might have crossed paths with one or the other of these bands before. But even so, this compilation with »Experimental Pop Music« from the first half of the eighties has some surprises to offer. Who, for example, still knows »Sandkorn« by Andreas Dorau with its rumbling calypso rhythm and the lyrics »Sie trägt einen roten Büstenhalter / Ich wär’ gern ein Zitronenfalter« (She wears a red brassiere / I’d like to be a lemon butterfly), which probably can’t be done so easily today? The overall accent is on »experimental,« not just in the word combinations; the sounds, too, favor the homemade shaggy over the polished. Besides obscure numbers like »Sentimental« by Träneninvasion, there are classics like Conrad Schnitzler’s surreal electro-pop »Auf dem schwarzen Kanal«, the post-Kraftwerk romanticism of Deutsche Wertarbeit with »Guten Abend, Leute« or the martial »Angriff aufs Schlaraffenland« by the unjustly forgotten NDW band Die Radierer. And anyone who doesn’t like »Eine Königin mit Rädern untertendran« by Foyer des Arts is foolish.

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