First, a note about the Mousemas Eve fundraiser:
Backers: 3
$95.00 Pledged of $500 Goal
5 Days to go
Okay, that’s three donations in three days. That is three more than I expected when I first posted this little pledge drive. And last night’s was for $15, which means at least one person is going to get a sweet-as-hell high-quality photograph of a giant mouse pouring a beer out in her memory. The good news is, getting another donation out of the way means we’re almost at 1/5th of our goal. The bad news is, we’ve still got quite a little hill to climb before we reach that $500 goal. In case any of you have forgotten, here is a link to last year’s video that depicts how amazing Mousemas Eve is, and here is a link to the rewards you’ll receive for pledging some money to this year’s Mousemas Eve celebration. Remember, donating is as easy as clicking the little button on the right-hand side of this page that says “Donate Via PayPal” and then sending me some amount of money. Simple, right?
RIGHT!?
Ugh.
Now, a note about S.Y.P.H., via the Mutant Sounds blog:
German band somewhere between Punk, Avant Garde and Neue Deutsche Welle. Founded 1977 by Harry Rag (Peter Braatz), Uwe Jahnke and Thomas Schwebel in Solingen/Germany. Thomas Schwebel hit upon the idea of naming the band “Syph” because it’s a dirty name. Harry Rag added the periods to make it look like an acronym and confuse people. S.Y.P.H. was then translated into “Saufender Yankee Prügelt Homo” (Drinking yankee beats queer). After 1986 it stood for “Save Your Pretty Heart” When Schwebel said goodbye to play with Mittagspause, the band was joined by Uli Putsch and Jürgen Wolter. This new formation stayed – more or less – stable until 1981, but had many changing guest musicians, including Holger Czukay from Can. In return S.Y.P.H. played with Czukay on his LP On The Way To The Peak Of Normal. Uwe Jahnke also appears on the Wobble/Liebezeit/Czukay EP “How Much Are They?”. The band paused in 2003 and is now active again. This is their 2nd LP, produced by Holger Czukay, released on Pure Freude label. Excellent!
SYPH
Pst!
(Pure Freude, 1980)
RapidShare DL Link (via Mutant Sounds, I’m too busy to do my own MediaFire UL today)
01. Euroton
02. Einsam In Wien (Lustlos)
03. Moderne Romantik [MP3]
04. Lametta
05. Modell
06. Alpha & Vieta
07. Nachbar
08. Regentanz
09. Stress
10. Do The Fleischwurst
