Back in the day: Thomas Fehlmann with Palais Schaumburg live in 1981

Back in the day: Thomas Fehlmann with Palais Schaumburg live in 1981

2 September, 2008 | 10.57AM

• Written by: svnvt
• Filed under: Videos: palais schaumburg, thomas fehlmann

Recently I’ve been re-reading Jürgen Teipel’s awesome book ‘Verschwende Deine Jugend’.

It’s the oral history of the emerging German punk and new wave scene at the end of the ‘70s and early ‘80s, the German counterpart to Legs McNeils and Gillian McCain’s ‘Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History Of Punk’.

A lot of people who became integral players in electronic music are interviewed in this book, and Thomas Fehlmann is one of them [read more after the jump].

Before Thomas Fehlmann became a member of The Orb or co-produced several early techno classics with Moritz von Oswald as 3MB for Juan Atkins (’Jazz Is The Teacher’) or Eddie Flashin Fowlkes (’Technosoul’), he was part of Palais Schaumburg, a German post-punk and new wave band, who still sounds incredibly fresh and different.

Listening to this clip from a show in 1981 I realized how exciting the early ‘80s must have been musically. Bands trying to break free from the usual song structures and becoming more loopy and tracky, fusing punk, pop and electronics.

Two years later, in 1983, Basic Channel’s Moritz von Oswald also became a member of Palais Schaumburg - as their drummer.

So, without looking it up on discogs.com, who can spot the young Thomas Fehlmann in the video?

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