Track Club EP, by Kosmischer Läufer

Track Club EP

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1.	Galaxis 05:18	buy track
2.	Die weisse Rose 05:30	buy track
3.	Finsternis 03:31	buy track
4.	Staub 02:42	buy track
5.	Flug 164 10:48	buy track

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While he worked as a sound editor for DEFA (Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft), Martin Zeichnete spent eleven years leading a secret, parallel life writing electronic music to train and inspire East Germany’s athletic elite.
Alongside project Kosmischer Läufer, Martin used unsupervised late night studio sessions to record his own, more personal work. Side one of this record contains a selection of these tracks.
‘Galaxis’ (1978) was originally written for Zeichnete’s short lived teenage band Die Weißen Tauben. Formed in Dresden in 1969 they disbanded soon after as they could not obtain a performance permission. Years later the somewhat contentious lyrics were replaced with this new synth arrangement to create a censor-evading instrumental.
The bucolic ‘Die weiße Rose’ (1977) was intended for the Jahre der Ruhigen Sonne project and is dedicated to the artist’s mother.
The brooding, mysterious ‘Finsternis’ (1979) evokes Martin’s childhood memory of a trip with his grandfather to Bulgaria where they observed the February 1961 solar eclipse. The music captures the unnerving atmosphere he felt as darkness fell, followed by the uncanny, dreamlike vision he experienced of strange objects falling to Earth as the light returned.
Back then, in the studio, every effort was made not to waste precious tape. Any reel with a couple of minutes left at the end would be used to record sound collages, test new instruments, or for sonic experimentation. The aptly titled ‘Staub’ (1974) is one of these ‘end songs’.
Side two contains the eleven-minute epic ‘Flug 164’ (1977). This mechanical motorik marvel sees Zeichnete back at the day job with one of his finest, most mesmerising running accompaniment tracks.

Zeit zum Laufen!

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released September 6, 2024

Music by Martin Zeichnete.
Curated & Mixed by Drew McFadyen.
Mastered by Jamie Harley.

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Kosmischer Läufer Berlin, Germany

For the first time since it was recorded in East Berlin over 40 years ago the music of Martin Zeichnete can finally be heard.
A disciple of the Kosmische Muzik of the likes of Kraftwerk, Can and Neu! that was drifting across the Wall from the West, Martin's idea of using the motorik, hypnotic beat of krautrock in the training of athletes was taken and exploited by the DDR's Olympic Committee. ... more

discography

Track Club EP

Sep 2024
Volume Five

Feb 2023
Volume Four

Nov 2018
Volume Three

Nov 2015
Volume Two

Mar 2014
Volume One

Jun 2013
Live In Graz EP

Jun 2017
Flug 164

Jun 2023
Werner und Sabine

Dec 2021
Das Meer II

Nov 2020
3 Track Sampler

Jun 2016

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