Brausepöter

In the artist's words:

Brausepöter (Martin Lück: vocals, guitar, synth and Bernd Hanhardt: bass, Kemper: drums, still exist in this line-up today!) were founded in 1978 in East Westphalia and were originally called Nordwestdeutsches Eiterlager, NWE for short. Brilliant name, but Brausepöter isn't bad either! This makes them one of the first German punk bands - punk in the true sense of the word, or as the US fanzine Maximum Rocknroll put it: "It's indie punk in the purest John Peel sense" or, as Martin Lück put it, "We always wanted to take all the rock out of our music".

Brausepöter released their last regular album "Nerven geschädigt" in 2019. The punk magazine FAZ titled their review "The new Brausepöter record shows what punk means today". For them, Brausepöter is "a German band that was unfortunately too good to become as famous as Trio or Die Toten Hosen. Spiegel Online also liked "Nerven geschädigt": "In its radical disinterest in everything that's happening and would be promising, Brausepöter's music seems even more consistent today than it did back then."

In December 2023, Tapete Records released the lost 1979 album "Keiner kann uns ab". Originally, the record, recorded with a cassette recorder in '79, was supposed to be released by ZickZack, but nothing came of it. Did the tape get lost in the post? Were the recordings too good? Or too radical even for ZickZack? We don't know.

If "Keiner kann uns ab" had actually been released back then, who knows, perhaps today the album would be mentioned in the same breath as "Monarchie und Alltag", "Amok Koma" or Slime's debut. But maybe not, because the Brausepöter sound is too unique, too ramshackle, too DIY - closer to Television Personalities, closer to The Fall or closer to the early Mekons than to all the punk rock bands. Brausepöter are simply "indie punk in the purest John Peel sense".