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Strafe Für Rebellion A duo of Bernd Kastner (born in 1957 in Düsseldorf, Germany) and Siegfried Michail Syniuga, Strafe Für Rebellion ("Punishment For Rebellion" - later known as Strafe F.R.) started in 1979. Over the course of several albums, they developed a personal style of abstract instrumental music that owed a lot to their use of home-made instruments, found objects and field recordings. They dissolved quietly in the mid 90s, after releasing the "Pianoguitar" album. Strafe FR returned to the scene in mid 2014 with a new album entitled "Sulphur Spring". Albums: Strafe Für Rebellion ‎(LP, Album + 7", Single)...

Kunst als Strafe was originally formed in Berlin in late 1998 by Gerrit Haasler, Rocio Rocha and Goetz Kleinhaus and put in hiatus after first initial test recordings until early 2008 when Nikolai Arnold joined in. In late 2009, Johanna Blackstone joined the troupe during recording sessions for Kunst als Strafe's 1st full length release "Movement Across A Barren Surface". Kunst als Strafe's analysis of pretextual discourse is not narrative, as postcapitalist deconstruction suggests, but subnarrative. Thus, if neocapitalist Marxism holds, the works of Kunst als Strafe are empowering. Pretextual discourse implies that class has significance, but only if consciousness...

"Het circus Jeroen Bosch in een vrolijke polonaise op het dek van de Titanic". Dat is Straf. Straf speelt een Mestizo à la Mano Negra en les Negresses Vertes, geïmporteerd naar het geografische én muzikale midden tussen Rowwen Hèze, de Kift en Jacques Brel. Aanstekelijk, oorspronkelijk en diep gepassioneerd. Straf bestaat uit zeven ervaren Brabantse muzikanten (op accordeons, harmonica, trompet, trombone, bas- en altsaxofoon, elektrische en akoestische gitaren, banjo, bas, drums en de legendarische voetpomptoeter) die hun muziek het liefst omschrijven als 'Pompende Polderpolka'. Straf is actief sinds 2005 en weet met hun zelfgeschreven, tegendraadse liedjes keer op keer een...

From Singapore, aspidistrafly is a duo consisting of composer and vocalist April Lee (b.1984) and producer Ricks Ang (b.1980). "aspidistrafly" is a wordplay of the George Orwell novel "Keep the aspidistra flying". The duo play music which can be classified as ambient folk with guitar-based drone, subtle electronics and various sound assemblages. After the release of "The Ghost of Things" EP, aspidistrafly released their first full-length album "i hold a wish for you" (Kitchen. Label) in 2008. The album was launched and supported by Apple Inc. in Singapore. In addition, aspidistrafly completed a release tour around Japan, Hong Kong, Macau,...