New Deutsch
Various Compiled By Thomas Bar & DJ Hell
(Gigolo Records)
Reported Friday, September 26 2003
Courtesy of Jonty_Adderley @ www.skrufff.com
"The unusual thing about me was that I always liked disco and punk at the same time, I think a lot of people did. I played disco and punk at the same clubs, though I was more dressed as a punk- it was cheaper."
Starting his DJing career aged 16 in Berlin in 1978, DJ Hell paid his dues the hard way, he told Skrufff in a recent interview.
"The question for me then was should I go to restaurants or buy some new records" he recalled. "And my decision was always to buy some new records for playing out on the weekend."
25 years later, his sacrifice has paid off and he's presumably raided his own crates for his latest compilation, a retrospective selection of German-punk electro. Varying from club classics like No More's Suicide Commando and DAF's Tanz Mit Mir to totally obscure experimental mash-ups, the CD is both strikingly contemporary and strangely familiar (Grauzone's two tracks Eisbar and Film 2 both finding favour with numerous London electro DJs in recent months).
New Deutsch is out now on Hell's own label Gigolo.
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