{"product_id":"michael-heinkel-eigenwerke-1980-1983","title":"Michael Heinkel - EIGENWERKE 1980-1983","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn early 1980s New Wave, Electro, Proto-Electronica, Industrial and Kraut-Pop album that has never been released before is being released on Elaste Records and it’s a perfect fit! History is being made.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the early Eighties, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMichael Heinkel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was one of those quiet electronic musicians hardly anyone knew - at least outside of Munich. While machine rhythms were being perfected in Düsseldorf, dilettantism was elevated into an art form in Hamburg and West Berlin was soundtracking its own feverish coldness, Munich seemed to be a place where, apparently, nothing was happening. Or almost nothing. Because beneath the radar, far removed from the grand narratives of those years, Michael Heinkel was already creating his own electronic cosmos - stripped-down, idiosyncratic and often ahead of its time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eElectronic minimalist music, born somewhere between a home studio, nightlife and the longing for a future that could only just be imagined back then. But the recordings disappeared into drawers, onto cassettes and tape reels. For decades, they remained a secret shared only among friends, insiders and a handful of close companions.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt was only 45 years later that \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAndreas Dorau\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRalf Hertwig\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePalais Schaumburg\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) - two defining figures of that early avant-garde - insisted that the recordings finally be made accessible. Not as an exercise in nostalgia, but as the overdue release of a missing piece in the history of German electronic music. This music is not a nostalgic retrospective. It is a delayed signal from a future that had already begun back then.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHeavyweight black vinyl with printed inner sleeve and digital download card.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Elaste Records","offers":[{"title":"Heavyweight Black Vinyl LP","offer_id":60262316179801,"sku":"SDZ-55652","price":27.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0588\/3455\/0945\/files\/Untitled-Design-6_df79249e-5395-4943-9613-84fca5976483.png?v=1793273260","url":"https:\/\/spindizzyrecords.com\/products\/michael-heinkel-eigenwerke-1980-1983","provider":"Spindizzy Dublin","version":"1.0","type":"link"}