{"title":"Tropenkoller","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"tropenkoller-86-88-ri","title":"Tropenkoller 86-88","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiscover Tropenkoller 86-88 by Tropenkoller on vinyl from aufnahme + wiedergabe. Dive into the GDR subculture with this exclusive release.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eKarl-Marx-Stadt (now Chemnitz) was one of the GDR’s subcultural hubs in the late 1970s and 80s. The industrial city in Saxony produced an impressively wide informal cultural programme beyond state structures. Bands such as Die Gehirne, Knut Baltz Formation, Die Arroganten Sorben, Kartoffelschälmaschine, AG Geige or the projects of cassette label klangFarBe created a complex artistic environment, in which Tropenkoller ran its spiritual exercises from 1986 to 1989. The “introverted experiment” remained distinct yet was exemplary of\u003ca name=\"_GoBack\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e a Karl-Marx-Stadt sound that considered dissonance a non-ideological form of harmonics.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eA first and only tape appeared in 1988. The extravagant packaging illustrated the edition’s exclusive nature; no more than twenty-five copies were released by Tropenkoller into the limited coterie of its open circle.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"aufnahme + wiedergabe","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":51641263817035,"sku":"2239727","price":20.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Tape","offer_id":53338214826315,"sku":"R8233-5379","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/2239727.jpg?v=1744712251"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/tropenkoller.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}