The 39 Clocks were Underground volume from Hanover. Together with new facts express, The Beauty Contest, Shiny Gnomes, Multicoloured Shades, the Kastrierten philosopher and Yellow Sunshine explosion one counts her to the Neo Psychedelic of volume German 80's-years of the Underground.
1980 appeared its 7-Inch DNS with the independent disk label NO Fun record, 1981 even there also its LP Pain it dark. Later 39 Clocks plates on the own label Psychotic graduation and with Hamburg Indie labels What's funny about were published in such a way.
Characteristic that volume was their optically from Velvet Underground, in music however from American garage skirt of the 60's-years affected psychedelische directness, the comparatively simple assigned production engineering (4-Spur-Gerät and Ä.), as well as the something bevels use of the English language, partly similarly the so-called Denglisch. Optically they always arose in black and with sun glasses and coined/shaped sentences like black-and-white televisions show better films as colour television sets. In demarcation to the rather melodischen Psychedelic skirt they called its music Psycho Beat. In the review today some of the 39 Clocks speak a comparison, which the duo always rejected as German Velvet Underground -. The Clocks had a skirt palace appearance like the hannoverschen colleagues of Hans A plastic never, was forgotten it however nevertheless not completely. 1998 e.g. found a title of the Clocks on the sound TRACK of the film 23 - nothing is as it seems use. In addition one remembers the outrider of the German Psychedelic Renaissance again in the context of the attempt to stylize Hanover to the coming Pop and skirt metropolis. The Clocks as well as Mainstream products is called such as Scooter or Mousse T., a at least befremdliche mixture.
Volume occupation
1976 was the Hannoveraner Jürgen J.G.39 Gleue (guitar, bass, singing) and Christian C.H.39 Henjes (guitar, organ, singing) still under the volume name Killing of advice, later to The of automat together. The core duo was extended occasionally by musicians like the Schlagzeuger Claudius Hempelmann (it changed later to the Labelmates and new wave representatives of the modern one) and Ruediger Klose, which admits philosophers ago also from its cooperation with the Kastrierten is. In the Studio they were accompanied later under others by sweet child by cosmonaut dream to the Melodika and Emilio Winschetti, singer of the Labelmates myths in bags, with Mint and The Perc meets the Hidden Gentleman, at the Synthesizer. For their second LP created Gleue and Henjes its own disk company Psychotic graduation, where also the Kastrierten philosopher published its first plates. 1983 separated the duo and Henjes created The Beauty Contest, which in such a way brought several plates out with What's funny about in Hamburg. 1987 came it to a unique Reunion and LP publication with What's so funny about, which remained however without large consequences. Gleue created the label Swamp Room in the future, played with projects like exit Out and The Cocoon (with Gunter Hampel) and published solo photographs as phantom Payn, whereby he met again and again with Ruediger Klose. In the year 2000 he said good-bye from the active music business.
Quotations
Melancholisch stimmungsvoll, a durchtuckernde rhythm machine has often something depressive actually. Simple one, constantly repeated figures on distorted guitar (DNS). Nearly still better a sinistere version mentioned by Twist & Shout Twisted & Shouts, the elegische melody changes slowly to a pointed Kreischgeräusch. Convincingly. Unfortunately in English. (Hans's cellar, sound Nr.9/80)
, as if Underground try Velvet, the Beatles sound themselves to after-pass on. (Bobby blitzkrieg)
Diskographie (excerpt)
Pain it dark (1981), NO Fun record, LP
Subnarcotic (1982), Psychotic graduation-re+publishes 1988 on What's so funny about, LP
Blades in your Masquerade Best OF (1983), Flicknife Sharp, LP
Cold Steel ton the Heart demo & Outtakes (1985), What's funny about in such a way, LP
13 more protest Songs (1987), What's funny, LP about in such a way
The original Psycho Beat Best OF (1993), What's funny about in such a way, CD
Diskographie Christian Henjes (excerpt)
THE BEAUTY CONTEST Feel putrefies (1984), to What's in such a way Funny About, LP
THE BEAUTY CONTEST No. 6 1985, What's so Funny About, Maxi
THE BEAUTY CONTEST town center Lights 1984, What's so Funny About, Maxi
Diskographie Jürgen Gleue (excerpt)
EXIT OUT Peruse Prankster (1985), What's so Funny About, LP
THE COCOON While The Recording Engineer Sleeps (1987), William realm acoustic memory, LP
THE COCOON Stretching Things (1992), What's so Funny About, LP/CD
THE phantom PAYN of volume. 1 Dig The Squares - They're Ugly (1991), GB 45, LP+EP
THE phantom PAYN ACT Trouble with Ghosts " (1992), Glitterhouse record, CD
THE phantom PAYN ACT Trouble with Ghosts (revised version) (1993), Hidden record, LP
THE PHANTON PAYN ACT bath Vibes Anyone?? (1994), Hidden record, LP/CD
A phantom PAYN SEANCE Telegraphic Grooves From A DEAD mailbox (1995), Hidden record, LP
THE phantom PAYNS More phantom Than Ever (1997), toasters in test, LP
J.G.39 Afternoon Non happening (2000), NO label record, CD
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