Rhythm (GDR)

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The Rhythm Initiative was an undertaking of the state committee for entertainment arts in the GDR . The aim was to make the dance music of the GDR more popular.

history

At the beginning of 1970, the commission for entertainment art was given to the relevant institutions to find new, youth-friendly and mass-effective forms of dance music in the concentrated cooperation of all those involved. The radio of the GDR , such as the music editor Luise Mirsch , started the initiative together with GDR television and the GDR record label Amiga , which lasted until 1978.

In 1971 the results were presented for the first time in a public event in the East Berlin congress hall . In the beginning mainly hits were produced, later mostly pop and rock music . In addition to musicians from the GDR, performers from “ socialist countries abroad ” were represented. Concert recordings of the public rhythm events were regularly broadcast on GDR television.

A total of 1151 titles were produced for the rhythm campaigns. Selected tracks from the Rhythm Initiative have been selected for the release of “Rhythm” records. A sampler each was released by the Amiga record label between 1971 and 1978. The styles range from hits to rock music; Only then established artists are represented. The radio or Amiga productions of the titles appeared on the albums, not the live performances. Many published pieces are not original dance titles. The record sleeves mostly show color-falsified or otherwise alienated photos of dance events and have curved lettering with the titles Rhythmus 71 to Rhythmus 78 .

The last rhythm event took place in 1978, as the musicians were increasingly able to release their own albums. Accordingly, the series of rhythm albums ended.

Others

Another initiative to promote popular music from that era was the “Open House”, with which groups in various GDR cities were “discovered” in 1969. A series of compilations published by Amiga at the same time were the 16 hi-records , which were released between 1972 and 1976 and which mainly contained rock music.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Wicke : Anatomy of the rock. VEB Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1987, ISBN 3370000717 , based on information on rhythm records at ostbeat.de ( memento of December 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 3, 2014
  2. ↑ Götz Hintze: Rock Lexicon of the GDR. 2nd Edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-303-9 , p. 247