Prager Handgriff. Arbeit, Sport & Spiel

The ‘Ruhrpott’ (Ruhr-Area) is Germany’s by far biggest conglomeration of industrial estates – a tumour-like accumulation of industrial parks, smoking chimneys, noisy motorways, stinking rivers and cities such as Duisburg, Essen, Dortmund or Herne whose names have become synominous in Germany with DIRTY, UGLY, NOISY, SHATTERED areas. In short: A region THAT f***ed up, that today naпve tourists are visiting the ‘Ruhrpott’, to get a glimpse of an idea, of how East Germany must have looked like before the reunification.... People ‘living’ in the Ruhr are the real nucleus of the German ‘working class’, doing the most dirty jobs in companies such as Krupp, Hoesch or Degussa or underground in the many coal mines of the area… With ‘Arbeit, Sport & Spiel’ (Work, Sports and Games) PRAGER HANDGRIFF deliver a ‘tribute’ to this tough region in Germany – a unique sort of ‘Ruhrpott’-Folk in the usual, well known EBM-style of this respected German act. ‘Arbeit, Sport & Spiel’ is PRAGER HANDGRIFF’s first all new album since 2002’s ‘1000 Feuer’ and follows 21 years after their first tape release of 1990!
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01. Elektrorepublik
02. Bis An Das Ende Der Welt
03. Vorwдrts
04. Ich Denke Dein
05. Der Aufschwung
06. Die Dunkle Ewigkeit
07. Im Westen Nichts Neues
08. Ich Finde Dich
09. Arbeit, Sport & Spiel
10. Sieben Rosen
11. Defekt
12. Wanderratten