Kehrschliefe – 8trk 7”

Limited to 250 copies
Hand numbered in a generic Polytechnic Youth Card sleeve

Rumoured to be Wolfgang Tilner-Barlow

From the KEHRSCHLIEFE estate:

“’Kehrschleife’ was Wolfgang Tilner-Barlow (1949 – 1984).

The Kehrschleife recordings originated from the Mauer park fleamarket in Berlin about 3 years ago, (bought by Allan Murphy of Midwich Youth Club, and cleaned up from the original cassettes by him), they appear to be back-ups of the original Kehrschleife studio master tapes. The tapes are labelled (in German) NDR TV/SFB TV/Radio Bremen themes and Idents and in each cassette case is an A4 sheet detailing the track title/recording date/intended broadcast recipient, with a Kehrschleife/Wolfgang Tilner-Barlow Logo letterhead.
According to the stall holder, the tapes were bought as part of a job lot of 1970’s studio equipment from in the Uhlenhorst area, in the 1980’s and passed on to him by a relative of the original job lot buyer. Little is known about Tilner-Barlow although the stall owner remembered the name ‘Kehrschleife’ as being a band from the late 70’s Hamburg Neu Deutsche Welle scene. Murphy’s research has turned up scant information such as Tilner-Barlow’s name on the end credits of a few different 1970’s German TV shows and a Rest in Peace notice at the end of an ‘Arbeit Heute’ show from 1984 on YouTube as well as the music appearing on a home video recording of Berlin in the 1970’s (with apparently numbers stations recordings embedded)”.