Klick & Aus

In the short but tumultuous life of the East Berlin Impro-Punk band Klick & Aus, they played an amalgamation ofProto-Punk and Post-Punk influenced by acts from both East and West including The Galloping Coroners, CaptainBeefheart and Cabaret Voltaire. The Klick & Aus sound breathed restlessness and petulance, like a company ofsoldiers always simmering for battle, but refusing to march in step. During the Christmas season of the waningOrwellian year 1984 the band recorded the cassette album "AIDS delikat", the title interweaving the infectiouscharacter of a new disease from the West with a particularity of East German consumerism. The band financed 100copies of "AIDS delikat". tapetopia 003 has now compiled a shortened vinyl version of the album. The entire "AIDSdelikat" tape album is available for download at playloud.com.TAPETOPIA - GDR UNDERGROUND TAPES (1984 - 1989)tapetopia is a series of vinyl releases based on cassettes from the East Germanys 80s underground, particularly fromthe 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 thecanon of the GDR subculture. Despite the miniscule number of original cassettes in circulation at the time many ofthe bands were popular in countercultural circles, a factor that made them highly suspect among the governmentsown inner circles. tapetopia is edited by Henryk Gericke.