Part II of the "Concrete Pop" presentation, which is also the "Fritz 51" finale and finissage event of "Sicht-Beton", considerably broadens the sound spectrum once again and even includes an external act from Vienna, SALÓ, who is not even included on the compilation. However, with "Geil auf Betong!" he has a concrete-brutalistic NNDW battle cry hit to his name, which made it almost inevitable to include him. Especially as a party guarantor of the highest energy level.
In their early days as a children's room punk band,Rosa Beton recorded a demo in 1983, which circulated in the East Berlin punk scene, but was only made available a few years ago, then re-recorded as an updated post-punk version and has since been presented live with a lively, nervous joy of playing. The band's anthem "Rosa Beton" can be found on "Beton-Pop" in a technoid version by the project T. Error, which in turn refers to Tom Terror & Das Beil, another project by singer and guitarist Thomas Wagner, who has also been running the arty father-son duo Herr Blum since 1987.
1983 was also the year when Hans Nieswandt first started DJing for a fee. He later became a Spex editor, member of Whirlpool Productions, director of the Pop Institute at the Folkwang University in Essen, author of several books on DJing and brand new mix host of his own radio show on ByteFM. As a solo producer, he recently delivered the album "Fluoreszent" on Bureau B and a brute disco-goes-dub mix of the S.Y.P.H. classic "Zurück zum Beton" for "Beton-Pop". There is also an accompanying text that refers not least to the post-punk era that preached a cool sound. But above all, he was, remains and is a passionate DJ who can build wide groove-historical and stylistic arcs. All the better that he is coming to the Atomino from his current centre of life in Tokyo to revive the "concrete boogie". DJ Tereza, who made it from Chemnitz, where she started out as a hip-hop DJ, to the electronic dance halls of the wide world, will take up the pulse and drive it away. Back to the local concrete!
