Heib Heib / Funky Funky

Here comes one of the most hidden 70s Cosmic Soul Funk vinyl 45 from East Germany. With the desire to bring the black Soul & Funk rhythm to the stages and dance floors of the GDR, a short-lived top band was formed after the dissolution of the Horst Krüger Band in 1976. Gotte Gottschalk and Petko Datschew formed the group NEUE GENERATION. This group had everything it needed to take off quickly: first-class and experienced instrumentalists, composers, plenty of fresh creativity, and good connections to the youth radio recording studios. Gotte and Michael Behm had already proven with Horst Krüger’s group that they had an incredible amount of black groove in their blood. With the idea of establishing a funky sound in the rather rock-oriented GDR music scene, they recorded two absolutely outstanding funk rhythm burners immediately after the band’s formation in 1977.

Since the contemporary music trend unfortunately spoke a different language, and the drummer Michael Behm also left the band at the end of´77, while the direction was now tending more towards a rockier, disco-like sound, the early FUNK gems no longer received attention in the band’s ongoing history. After a few performances, compilation contributions, and a single release, this very promising band fell apart into its individual parts once again. It was only after the group disbanded that the state label Amiga released an LP with recordings from 1978.

This now-released second single is, from today’s perspective, an absolute milestone in East German FUNK history and an absolute must for every fan of the funk groove of the 1970s.

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