PSYCHOBILLY RAT PACK - Lession 1 "Best of East German Psychobilly" Digi-CD

Band

PSYCHOBILLY RAT PACK - Lession 1

Title

Best of East German Psychobilly

Cat#

HALB 47-2

Format

Digi-CD

Release Date

28.09.2007

File Under

Psychobilly, Punkabilly, Rockabilly

Info

Welcome to the PSYCHOBILLY RATPACK, a new CD Sampler-series, with always 4 bands with 3 titles represented in the field of Psychobilly, Punkabilly, and Rockabilly. This time: THE BEST OF EAST-GERMAN PSYCHOBILLY…Share your happiness with us on the best bands of the east- german Psychobilly-Szene: THEE FLANDERS, DAMAGE DONE BY WORMS, TAZMANIAN DEVILS, THE JUMBLERS.

The CD come out in a lavished produced fullcoloured-digi-pack with 4 paged booklet and transparented Tray - inclusive band description and introduction text. First edition are 2000 pieces and no more.

THEE FLANDERS :

Back from the dark abysses of hell the five psychobilly’s from Potsdam again follow the root of evil to fulfil the work of Satan. Equipped with this new 3-tracks (all cover-version of the other bands from this compilation), they proceed their devilish masterplan to conquer the world above. Determined and merciless the boys do all to spread fear and horror and cause trouble in the country by playing horror-glamorizing songs. From now on, fear should be the key to get obedience. No infamous action was left out to get every otherminded soul. We remember:

1997 it all begun, when three boys were keen to play music. One year later drummer Lessing left the seat for Micha. 2000 they finally found a bass-player in Felix, who was the first who not just liked Blues or Heavy Metal. After a short time of acclimation the bands-name “Ted Flanders & the Hot Wings” was shortened to “Thee Flanders” and the first demo-CD was recorded. When in 2003 the thrilling CD “Punkabilly from Hell” was the entry in the holy halls of Rock’n’Roll, the five boys got straight to pole-position on the road-to-ruin with the 2004 released Hit-album “Monster Party”. After that the guys were seen on a lot of dark places and ripped-out the hearts of innocent souls with by playing a mixture of freakshows and Rock’n’Roll. The numbers of fans climbed steadily along with the ones, who where infected with Thee-Flanders-Virus. Live they played on nearly all big and small punk- and psycho-festivals in Germany, e.g. Satanic Stomp, Punk and Dis order ly, Force Attack, Endless Summer, Sound of the Surburbs, City that never Sleeps, Rock’n’Roll Attack, Rocking Nightmares, Venomoused Mind, Monster Stompin’, Lindenpunk and more. They played along with band like Mad Sin, the Meteors, Demented are Go!, Exploited, Monsters, Angelic Upstarts, Bones, Batmobile, Rubberslime, Mimmis, Lokalmatadore, Real Mc Kennzies, the Boys, Buisness, Mark Foggo, Nigel Lewis and of course at the Psychomania-Rumble in 2007.

In 2007 the long-awaited coveralbum with their favourite songs of Depeche Mode, die Ärzte, Blondie, Stray Cats, New Model Army, Erasure, Billy Idol, Elvis and their own versions of psycho-classics of Mad Sin, the Meteors, Demented are Go!, Batmobile and the Frantic Flintstones will finally be released. The CD will come along with a DVD, where you will find four nearly complete conerts (Force-Attack, Punk and Dis order ly, Lindenpunk Festival and Night of the Zombies), the videoclips of “Erna P.” and “Zombies Horrorshow”, interviews and some bonus-material. Before that the “Erna P.” –single will be released with three non-album-tracks and two songs from the album.

DAMAGE DONE BY WORMS:

The individuality of the band makes it difficult to describe their style of music lets just say its Rock 'n' Roll with the effects of Psychobilly, Surf, Rockabilly (not "Rock-A-Billy" for fuck's sakes!) and Punk. The bands debut album, a 10 LP "Evil Eyes" was released in 1995 by Crazy Love Records. In 1996 followed the LP "Fear Will Freeze You…" also on Crazy Love Records.

Over the years they've experienced a lot on stage where they've a hand in fascinating the masses with their great show on stage. The band has shared the stage with famous Rock'n'Roll bands around Europe from Calella , Spain to Lahti , Finland . In 1999 the band presented the " Suicide City " EP by the Japanese label On the Hill Records. Their latest release "Tonight?!" which was co-produced by both Haryboobooana Records and Streetmusic Berlin is still a top seller in Europe and around the world. Over the years, Marco & Co. have grown up and the evolution of the music's sound and technique has gotten more brilliant & exciting. The lyrics are spiked with their experiences made though the years a melancholy and rough sound, indeed. Damage Done by Worms - a band which has never forgotten its mission…

THE TAZMANIEN DEVILS:

Since we had the idea to start makin' rock'n'roll music, there has never been a doubt about how rock'n'roll has to be played. Being infected by the frantic energy of the early psycho bands, we decided to do just the same. And it worked out well…The Tazmanian Devils' insane and melodic sound perfectly combines classic Rockabilly-style with wild madness and horror-charme, and comes incredibly close to the beginning of Psychobilly music. This is authentic Psychobilly!

David first got in contact with Salmi on a concert. He's always been a good friend to Laura, who used to live in Quedlinburg as Salmi still does. Now Laura,as well as David, lives in Naumburg, which is a distance of about two hours from Quedlinburg.At that time, Laura and Salmi already got started playing psychobilly together.

With a small drumset and a guitar, they decided to try launching a real psychobilly band. Both had been involved with some punkrock bands before, so handling the instruments was not that new.After buying a Double-Bass, they were looking for someone to play it, and finally asked David, who wasn't able to play any kind of instrument at that time. But he did try and it took quite some time til we were all sure to reach, what we expected. Yes, our name couldn't be more primitive, but we don't care about that anymore. We were busy composing some tunes and David tryed to sing them when we got our first offer to play on stage in 2003. That was quite funny, so we wanted more… We needed to record some of our stuff for promotion, and with a couple of primitive demo-recordings we managed to come around in germany to play with some real cool bands. Meanwhile it was about time to get our first songs out on a compilation called Graveyard Hop, another followed. Finally we're proud to present the album-debut on Razmataz Records, our own small label, which we started as well. Wanting to eat your brains, we hope you enjoy our style and have a ball with us.

THE JUMBLERS:

Three men. One mission: Confusion. These dignified connoisseurs of good musical taste met in 1996. Initially smiled at in Leipzigs meagre scene, than shaken by the storms of renaming and reshuffling, they finally found the perfect cast in 1998: Gerd, Slapbass Micha, Drums Matt, Guitar/Vox Despite their notorious swimming against the stream, they had been repeatedly chosen as supporting act by big players within the scene: Demented Are Go, The Meteors, Mad Sin, The Frantic Flintstones. Their music needs no mask, no copies of copies. It is plain, straight and unsquiggled neo-rockabilly.

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