Release Date:
1996 (original release)
27th September 2004 (re-release)
Format:
2xCD, download & streaming
Tracklist: 01. Gudrun Gut The Ocean Club
02. Gudrun Gut & Blixa Bargeld Die Sonne
03. Gudrun Gut & Anita Lane Yadiyadi
04. Gudrun Gut & Danielle De Piciotto Pearl
05. Gudrun Gut & Katharina Franck Drip
06. Gudrun Gut & Jayney Klimek Tide
07. Gudrun Gut & Jovanka Von Willsdorf Diving
08. Gudrun Gut & Inga Humpe Butterfly
09. Gudrun Gut & Anita Lane Firething
10. Gudrun Gut Martini
11. Gudrun Gut & Myra Davies Dinner
12. Gudrun Gut Goofy
13. Gudrun Gut & Danielle De Piciotto Ambition
14. Gudrun Gut & Manon P. Duursma Cocoon
15. Gudrun Gut The Ocean Club II
16. Gudrun Gut Woods
17. Gudrun Gut & Anita Lane Yadiyadi (Yadigirl Good Mix)
18. Gudrun Gut & Anita Lane Yadiyadi (Yadiland Paul Van Dyk Mix)
19. Gudrun Gut & Blixa Bargeld Die Sonne (Klaus Schulze Mix)
20. Gudrun Gut & Blixa Bargeld Die Sonne (Flow Mix By Thomas Fehlmann)
21. Gudrun Gut & Blixa Bargeld Die Sonne (Effective Force Mix)
22. Gudrun Gut & Anita Lane Firething (Radio Mix)
23. Gudrun Gut & Anita Lane Firething (Ian Pooley Mix)
24. Gudrun Gut & Anita Lane Firething (The Orb Firedub)
25. Gudrun Gut & Inga Humpe Butterfly (Spinout Dub)
26. Gudrun Gut & Inga Humpe Butterfly (Ellen Allien Butterdub)
27. Gudrun Gut & Inga Humpe Butterfly (Cobra 10.000 Kg Mix)
Press Info:
The beginning of the Oceanclub, one of the most influential clubs and social networks to come out of the Berlin scene. Original Tracks by Gudrun Gut with special guest vocals from: Anita Lane, Danielle de Picciotto, Blixa Bargeld, Jovanka von Willsdorf, Jayney Klimek, Inga Humpe, Mayra Davies, Katharina Franck, Manon P. Duursma, plus a whole bonus disc of remixes from the likes of Ellen Allien, Thomas Fehlmann, effective Force, Ian Pooley, The Orb, Paul van Dyk, Klaus Schulze, Spinout, CoBra – all together for the first time…
Note: the original release from 19967 just had the first 15 tracks
Full Track Streaming:
Specials:
Gudrun Gut – “NovaFuture Blog Mix February 2022”
Danielle De Picciotto – “NovaFuture Blog Mix July 2024”
Press Info:
M_SESSIONS REMIXED Monika Werkstatt plays Mania D, Malaria!, Matador remixed by Pilocka Krach, Acid Pauli & c00lm8
In 2021 Bettina Köster, Gudrun Gut and Beate Bartel celebrated M_Dokumente: a major retrospective of their early and still highly influential band projects, MANIA D., MALARIA!, MATADOR. M_Dokumente was both a book released via Ventil Verlag, a 2xLP of covers played by the Monika Werkstatt as well as an exhibition and performance series at Silent Green in Berlin, Wedding.
The event featured talks, DJ sets and live performances by Chicks on Speed, Die Mücken and the aforementioned Monika Werkstatt, a rotating super-group collective made up of all artists from the current monika roster, in this case: AGF, ANIKA, BEATE BARTEL, GUDRUN GUT, ISLAJA, LUCRECIA DALT, MIDORI HIRANO, MOMMO G, NATALIE BERIDZE, PILOCKA KRACH & SONAE. Their M-Sessions release featured new versions of some classic tracks by Mania D., Malaria! and Matador as well as some rare original recordings. Now monika brings you 3 remixes from the M-Sessions by Pilocka Krach, Acid Pauli and Coolm8.
PILOCKA KRACH is herself part of the Monika Werkstatt and one of the most prolific recent signings to the monika label. Her remix of the Werkstatt’s version of ‘Komm Darling lass uns tanzen gehn’ by Mania D. shows Frau Krach’s typical tongue in cheek attitude: it’s a funky twisted tune with a distorted guitar anti-solo and the pitched lyrics (trans. “the world may end, darling let’s go dancing”) are as fitting in today’s post-pandemic digital dystopia as they were in cold-war 1980s.
ACID PAULI aka Martin Gretschmann is known for his early work with The Notwist and has gone on to be a renowned solo artist and DJ. With the Yo Yo remix of ‘You You’, originally by Malaria!, he has delivered a straight up dancefloor banger.
True to his name, he weaves acid baselines between the solid beats to create a pure club track.
Last but by no means least it’s the turn of Chiara Rüßmann aka COOLM8 to reinterpret the M-Werkstatt interpretation of the Matador song ‘Schreiender Tag’. This remix came about as part of the workshop Remix Regendered. Which was designed to share the theory and practice of remixing in electronic music, with a special focus on female composers. This c00lm8 remix has an oldschool groove and makes excellent use of the vocal samples to great ironic affect.
Three bands from 80s Berlin, all beginning with the letter M and now remixed by 3 of the best DJ/producers of the 2020s. M_SESSIONS REMIXED is the perfect culmination of M_Dokumente as it brings an even more modern energy to Monika Werkstatt’s take on the music of Mania D, Malaria!, Matador. This record puts the M in reMix!
Tracklist: 01. Mania D. Zukunft (Sender Freies Berlin)
02. Mania D. Radiator (Zossener Straße Cute Version)
03. Malaria! I Will Be Your Only One
04. Matador Nite Time
05. Mania D. Herzschlag
06. Matador Paradise (Demo Version)
07. Malaria! White Sky White Sea (Edit)
08. Mania D. Zukunft (Live In Düsseldorf)
09. Mania D. Komm Darling Lass Uns Tanzen Gehen (Live In Düsseldorf)
10. Malaria! Mädels Sind Toll (Live Berlin)
11. Malaria! You You (Live In Washington D.C., 9:30 Club, 1983)
12. Matador Schreiender Tag (M_SESSIONS – Remaster)
13. Matador Mother (Demo Version)
14. Matador On The Boat
15. Mania D. Track 4
16. Mania D. Kinderfunk
17. Malaria! Geld (M_SESSIONS – Remaster)
Press Info: M_SESSIONS – THE PROCESS
M_Sessions is offering a contemporary version of Mania D., Malaria and Matador’s music for the 40th anniversary plus the rare originals. Bringing the past into the now and into the future.
Monika Werkstatt seemed the perfect choice for new interpretations. Founded in 2015, comprising female electronic musicians and producers from the entourage of Monika Enterprise and Moabit Musik. The loose collective played dozens of improvised concerts around Europe and released a studio album and live recordings in everchanging artist constellations. The M_Sessions involved Pilocka Krach, Beate Bartel, Midori Hirano, Mommo G, Lucrecia Dalt, Antye Greie-Ripatti, Natalie Beridze, Annika Henderson and myself. Here the form of interpretation is focussing on keeping the freedom of their improvised work and adapting it to the collective appropriation of songs. I cannot imagine a better reinterpretation of the material with its real life ups and downs and with its enthusiasm.
The original core team of Beate Bartel, Bettina Köster, Manon P. Duursma and myself selected “Rare Originals” from the repertoire of the 3 bands where we saw special relevance and beauty – these tracks are on LP2. We rediscovered live tracks, living room recordings and demo versions from our times long gone. (G.Gut)
M_DOKUMENTE // THE BOOK – THE RECORDS – THE EXHIBITION
The project M_Dokumente focuses on the All Female bands Mania D., Malaria! and Matador in the West Berlin music and art scene of the late 1970s and 1980s. We celebrate this 40 years retrospetive with a big festival weekend from 21.-24.10.2021 at Silent Green from a explicitly female perspective.
The three bands around their members Beate Bartel, Bettina Köster and Gudrun Gut played concerts in different formations from 1979 on, released records and toured around the world. The self-determined appearance of the musicians was new, raised some eyebrows and was reflected both in the music and the lyrics, but also in their unique style and the genre-crossing approach of “more art in the music, more music in the art”. To this day, the bands are considered visionary, they shaped a new image of women in pop culture and are pioneers and role models for the still important and necessary emancipatory movement in the music industry. Far beyond the borders of Berlin.
3Ms
The three, reunited: Malaria, Matador and Mania D, unter einem Dach, but gutted, replaced with electronic hearts, new beats, new beasts, the time has changed, yet the politics, the problems, the heartache remains the same. 2021 sees the anniversary of the 3 M’s and therewith the production of an album of songs, covering a selection of the bands’ finest output, this time assembled by a new set of feminist misfits; producers, fangirls, instrumentalists, under the strict guidance of original members Gudrun Gut and Beate Bartel. M-Sessions features: AGF, Lucrecia Dalt, Sonae, Midori Hirano, Islaja, Natalie Beridze, Pilocka Krach, Annika Henderson (Anika), Lupe, Gudrun Gut and Beate Bartel. Beginning in West Berlin, in 1979, with the inception of Mania D, spawning Malaria! and later Matador; in a time when music was essential to movement, to escape, to space, to the scene and to the rebellion of the people; three bands stood for trial and error, trial and terror, anti- conformity, and anti-consumerism, for girl power and sticking it to the man, and for just doing whatever the hell they wanted. The three, their existence slightly staggered, with different members, different grudges, different heartbreaks, different instrumental expressions, were joined by a string of barbed wire, piecing pigeon hearts, within the playground that was the desolate ex-capital, now again capital, Berlin; a place where artists and freaks could run free amongst the wrinklies and army dodgers; no microscopes, no rules, no property developers.
Tracklist: 01. I Will Be Your Only One (Monika Werkstatt Version)
02. Paradise (Monika Werkstatt Version)
03. Radiator (Monika Werkstatt Version)
04. Komm Darling Lass Uns Tanzen Gehen (Monika Werkstatt Version)
05. You You (Monika Werkstatt Version)
06. Schreiender Tag (Monika Werkstatt Version)
07. Geld (Monika Werkstatt Version)
08. Mother (Monika Werkstatt Version)
09. White Sky White Sea (Monika Werkstatt Version)
10. Herzschlag (Monika Werkstatt Version)
11. Zukunft (Monika Werkstatt Version)
12. Nite Time (Monika Werkstatt Version)
13. Mother (Demo – Islaja’s Rough Vocal Mix Xtra)
14. Herzschlag (Monika Werkstatt Version GG’s Xtra)
15. Can You Hear Me? (Mommo G.’s Video Call Xtra)
Press Info: M_SESSIONS – THE PROCESS
M_Sessions is offering a contemporary version of Mania D., Malaria and Matador’s music for the 40th anniversary plus the rare originals. Bringing the past into the now and into the future.
Monika Werkstatt seemed the perfect choice for new interpretations. Founded in 2015, comprising female electronic musicians and producers from the entourage of Monika Enterprise and Moabit Musik. The loose collective played dozens of improvised concerts around Europe and released a studio album and live recordings in everchanging artist constellations. The M_Sessions involved Pilocka Krach, Beate Bartel, Midori Hirano, Mommo G, Lucrecia Dalt, Antye Greie-Ripatti, Natalie Beridze, Annika Henderson and myself. Here the form of interpretation is focussing on keeping the freedom of their improvised work and adapting it to the collective appropriation of songs. I cannot imagine a better reinterpretation of the material with its real life ups and downs and with its enthusiasm.
The original core team of Beate Bartel, Bettina Köster, Manon P. Duursma and myself selected “Rare Originals” from the repertoire of the 3 bands where we saw special relevance and beauty – these tracks are on LP2. We rediscovered live tracks, living room recordings and demo versions from our times long gone. (G.Gut)
M_DOKUMENTE // THE BOOK – THE RECORDS – THE EXHIBITION
The project M_Dokumente focuses on the All Female bands Mania D., Malaria! and Matador in the West Berlin music and art scene of the late 1970s and 1980s. We celebrate this 40 years retrospetive with a big festival weekend from 21.-24.10.2021 at Silent Green from a explicitly female perspective.
The three bands around their members Beate Bartel, Bettina Köster and Gudrun Gut played concerts in different formations from 1979 on, released records and toured around the world. The self-determined appearance of the musicians was new, raised some eyebrows and was reflected both in the music and the lyrics, but also in their unique style and the genre-crossing approach of “more art in the music, more music in the art”. To this day, the bands are considered visionary, they shaped a new image of women in pop culture and are pioneers and role models for the still important and necessary emancipatory movement in the music industry. Far beyond the borders of Berlin.
3Ms
The three, reunited: Malaria, Matador and Mania D, unter einem Dach, but gutted, replaced with electronic hearts, new beats, new beasts, the time has changed, yet the politics, the problems, the heartache remains the same. 2021 sees the anniversary of the 3 M’s and therewith the production of an album of songs, covering a selection of the bands’ finest output, this time assembled by a new set of feminist misfits; producers, fangirls, instrumentalists, under the strict guidance of original members Gudrun Gut and Beate Bartel. M-Sessions features: AGF, Lucrecia Dalt, Sonae, Midori Hirano, Islaja, Natalie Beridze, Pilocka Krach, Annika Henderson (Anika), Lupe, Gudrun Gut and Beate Bartel. Beginning in West Berlin, in 1979, with the inception of Mania D, spawning Malaria! and later Matador; in a time when music was essential to movement, to escape, to space, to the scene and to the rebellion of the people; three bands stood for trial and error, trial and terror, anti- conformity, and anti-consumerism, for girl power and sticking it to the man, and for just doing whatever the hell they wanted. The three, their existence slightly staggered, with different members, different grudges, different heartbreaks, different instrumental expressions, were joined by a string of barbed wire, piecing pigeon hearts, within the playground that was the desolate ex-capital, now again capital, Berlin; a place where artists and freaks could run free amongst the wrinklies and army dodgers; no microscopes, no rules, no property developers.
12. Monika Werkstatt Nite Time (Monika Werkstatt Version)
16. Mania D. Zukunft (Sender Freies Berlin)
17. Mania D. Radiator (Zossener Straße Cute Version)
18. Malaria! I Will Be Your Only One
19. Matador Nite Time
20. Mania D. Herzschlag
21. Matador Paradise (Demo Version)
22. Malaria! White Sky White Sea (Edit)
23. Mania D. Zukunft (Live In Düsseldorf)
24. Mania D. Komm Darling Lass Uns Tanzen Gehen (Live In Düsseldorf)
25. Malaria! Mädels Sind Toll (Live Berlin)
26. Malaria! You You (Live In Washington D.C., 9:30 Club, 1983)
27. Matador Schreiender Tag (M_SESSIONS – Remaster)
28. Matador Mother (Demo Version)
29. Matador On The Boat
30. Mania D. Track 4
31. Mania D. Kinderfunk
32. Malaria! Geld (M_SESSIONS – Remaster)
Press Info: M_SESSIONS – THE PROCESS
M_Sessions is offering a contemporary version of Mania D., Malaria and Matador’s music for the 40th anniversary plus the rare originals. Bringing the past into the now and into the future.
Monika Werkstatt seemed the perfect choice for new interpretations. Founded in 2015, comprising female electronic musicians and producers from the entourage of Monika Enterprise and Moabit Musik. The loose collective played dozens of improvised concerts around Europe and released a studio album and live recordings in everchanging artist constellations. The M_Sessions involved Pilocka Krach, Beate Bartel, Midori Hirano, Mommo G, Lucrecia Dalt, Antye Greie-Ripatti, Natalie Beridze, Annika Henderson and myself. Here the form of interpretation is focussing on keeping the freedom of their improvised work and adapting it to the collective appropriation of songs. I cannot imagine a better reinterpretation of the material with its real life ups and downs and with its enthusiasm.
The original core team of Beate Bartel, Bettina Köster, Manon P. Duursma and myself selected “Rare Originals” from the repertoire of the 3 bands where we saw special relevance and beauty – these tracks are on LP2. We rediscovered live tracks, living room recordings and demo versions from our times long gone. (G.Gut)
M_DOKUMENTE // THE BOOK – THE RECORDS – THE EXHIBITION
The project M_Dokumente focuses on the All Female bands Mania D., Malaria! and Matador in the West Berlin music and art scene of the late 1970s and 1980s. We celebrate this 40 years retrospetive with a big festival weekend from 21.-24.10.2021 at Silent Green from a explicitly female perspective.
The three bands around their members Beate Bartel, Bettina Köster and Gudrun Gut played concerts in different formations from 1979 on, released records and toured around the world. The self-determined appearance of the musicians was new, raised some eyebrows and was reflected both in the music and the lyrics, but also in their unique style and the genre-crossing approach of “more art in the music, more music in the art”. To this day, the bands are considered visionary, they shaped a new image of women in pop culture and are pioneers and role models for the still important and necessary emancipatory movement in the music industry. Far beyond the borders of Berlin.
3Ms
The three, reunited: Malaria, Matador and Mania D, unter einem Dach, but gutted, replaced with electronic hearts, new beats, new beasts, the time has changed, yet the politics, the problems, the heartache remains the same. 2021 sees the anniversary of the 3 M’s and therewith the production of an album of songs, covering a selection of the bands’ finest output, this time assembled by a new set of feminist misfits; producers, fangirls, instrumentalists, under the strict guidance of original members Gudrun Gut and Beate Bartel. M-Sessions features: AGF, Lucrecia Dalt, Sonae, Midori Hirano, Islaja, Natalie Beridze, Pilocka Krach, Annika Henderson (Anika), Lupe, Gudrun Gut and Beate Bartel. Beginning in West Berlin, in 1979, with the inception of Mania D, spawning Malaria! and later Matador; in a time when music was essential to movement, to escape, to space, to the scene and to the rebellion of the people; three bands stood for trial and error, trial and terror, anti- conformity, and anti-consumerism, for girl power and sticking it to the man, and for just doing whatever the hell they wanted. The three, their existence slightly staggered, with different members, different grudges, different heartbreaks, different instrumental expressions, were joined by a string of barbed wire, piecing pigeon hearts, within the playground that was the desolate ex-capital, now again capital, Berlin; a place where artists and freaks could run free amongst the wrinklies and army dodgers; no microscopes, no rules, no property developers.
