DER EXPANDER DES FORTSCHRITTS-S/T, LP, 1989, GERMANY (DDR)

One of Recommended Records' better 80's discoveries (issued on their short-lived Points East sub-label created to release "new music from central Europe") was this recalcitrant East German unit who combine a low-key brooding R.I.O.-ish simmer similar to Sweden's Ur Kaos with some of the grunt and lurch dissident dissonance of the post-Plastic People Czech school and rake the results across the surface of the sort of thorny garrulousness and irregularity I associate with the sound of Chris Cutler's collision with NDW in Cassiber.

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