La Freiheit
Die Partei
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"In 1981 Tom Dokoupil and Walter Dahn, two young and wild protagonists of the German underground, got together to create a new music project entitled Die Partei. Using his Siluetes 61 alias, Dokoupil was already known as something of a musical eccentric and as a member of The Wirtschaftswunder. Walter Dahn, a star pupil of Joseph Beuys, collaborated with Dokoupil’s brother Georg in the Mülheimer Freiheit art group, as well as playing music in the Cologne scene which emerged around Can. A chance meeting between Dokoupil and Dahn led to their teaming up. They met in Dokoupil’s Studio 61, The Wirtschaftswunder’s workplace. Die Partei was christened a few sessions later and a plan made to create a concept album according to strict rules: they would record on a single weekend, the music would be instrumental, electronic and danceable, sprinkled with a few film quotes. Dokoupil and Dahn knew exactly the moods they sought to conjure up with their tracks. They only allowed themselves the use of certain instruments and adhered to a duality of contrasts: good / evil, beautiful / ugly (in terms of sound), fast / slow, rightist / leftist politics (with reference to the artwork). The last piece of the puzzle was an album title: La Freedom of the Spirit." (Label PR)
