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Review: Up until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, it was notoriously difficult to run a record label in the German Democratic Republic, better known in the West as East Germany. New wave and experimental electronic enthusiast Frank Bretschneider got round this by restricting the releases of his Klangfarbe imprint to a handful of extremely limited cassettes. Here, he gathers the best of those releases together for the first time on vinyl, with each side of wax showcasing the work of a particular artist. It's impressively out-there and entertaining stuff, with tracks drawing influence from British and American minimal wave, Stockhausen style tape experimentation, post-punk noise, industrial funk, and Radiophonic Workshop style electronic experimentation.