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Bitkicks – The Graue Recordings
Kickbit Information Bitkicks – The Graue Recordings
Format: LP Type: Album, Reissue/Repress
Labels: Sireena Records
Release Year: 2021
First Release: 1998
EAN/UPC: 4260182988695
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€29.90

The only surviving recordings of the “Supergroup” feat. CARSTEN BOHN (ex-Frumpy) and ULI TREPTE (ex-Gru Guru) from 1975 on vinyl! Limited edition!
 
KICKBIT INFORMATION was created in the spring of 1974 when ULI TREPTE (bass) met the Hamburg drummer CARSTEN BOHN. Both of them were well-known and highly respected musicians even then. Trepte had met Mani Neumeier at the Irene Schweizer Group and together with him founded Guru Guru. As a trio together with guitarist Ax Genrich, they were among the most exciting part of the “Krautrock” phenomenon, which is highly praised, especially abroad. Carsten Bohn, on the other hand, was a co-founder of Frumpy, a band that is still legendary today, in which Inga Rumpf was behind the microphone. After the band broke up, Bohn founded the short-lived Dennis project, which also included saxophonist WILLI PAPE. Pape, on the other hand, had played with Thirsty Moon, another well-known band in the early 1970s. At that time, Bohn and Pape lived in an old schoolhouse in Graue, Lower Saxony, where there was plenty of space. Uli Trepte also moved into the school building in the summer of 1974 and brought the violinist OTTO RICHTER with him from Berlin. Carsten Bohn in turn lured the Hamburg-based keyboardist FRITZ HEGI to Graue a little later, KICKBIT INFORMATION was born!

What they all had in common - in addition to a preference for psychedelics and the desire not to separate life and work - was the firm will not to make rock with an Anglo-Saxon touch. The music should be deeply self-contained. Long sprawling jams formed the basic sound of Kickbit Information. Bass and drums dominated, but left enough space for the rest of the band to improvise. The  recordings on this record were only recorded with a microphone and a simple tape recorder. They impressively show the class and enthusiasm of the musicians. A great document of the times, because a year later Kickbit Information was already history. Too few gigs, no management - the usual reasons for ending a band early.

Carsten Bohn then founded Bandstand, Uli Trepte brought Spacebox to life, and the other musicians also found new jobs. What have remained are these recordings, which, albeit with a rough sound quality, show how lively and varied rock music was made in the time of the new beginnings!

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