ABWARTS Koma Amok 1980 German ORIG Post-Punk ZICKZACK Einstürzende Neubauten NDW

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ABWARTS: “Koma/ Amok”

Label: ZICKZACK Records

Label Number: ZZ-10

- RARE GERMAN 1st ORIGINAL Pressing from 1980

- Great Neue Deutsche Welle/ Post Punk / New Wave LP

- Comes on collectible ZICK ZACK label

- TOP condition

- Complete with always missing insert

GRADING:

LP Record: Near Mint – shiny and glossy surface, amazing condition

Jacket: Excellent ~ Near Mint

Insert: Near Mint

Some words about this issue: ABWARTS: “AMOK/KOMA” (Zickzack Records – ZZ10) Piece de resistance of the early 1980's German underground scene. After the Krautrock wave had ebbed out, the punk contagion spread through late 1970's West Germany like an unstoppable venereal disease. Especially Hamburg was hit hard, germinating out sub currential labels like the now highly collectable Zickzack venture. Helming the whole scene was Abwarts, ready to chant Babylon down. On their first album “Amok/ Koma” the four members plus their savage veteran mother scorn through the 14 original compositions with so much vigor, speed infested urgency and accelerated primitivism from beyond the cave that one has the feeling they wanted to finish the recording before the fuzz breaks down the door and takes them away – in straightjackets to the nearby mental asylum. Seemingly recorded in a crisis condition of post baby-booming Germany shaken up with terrorist upheaval and Bader Meinhoff activity, the band speed riffs through their bone-shaking amphetamine driven mantras. Guitarist Frank Ziewert's nagging riffage and nasal sarcastic singing give it all a feel of urgency, demonic possession and disease infested bliss. In all, the disc is a true forgotten masterpiece of punk nihilism, much more intellectually charged than their UK compatriots (apart from CRASS). Cold war Germany has never sounded so alive as when Abwarts were on the barricades, trying to bring down the wall and the Fourth Reich with it. Brilliant. One of the best discs to seep out of Germany (and Europe for that matter) during that hole in time. All time highest recommendation and top notch copy.

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Our grading scale: Mint/ Near Mint/ Excellent/ VG++/. We don’t sell anything below VG++. VG++ grade is basically that the record has some scuffs and has wear. Excellent: record has hardly no visible defects and is preserved with care and attention, the condition most collectors take pride in to file away. Near Mint: a dash below mint, just perfect. Mint: like new.

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