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DER FROST ZIRKUS [2025 Remaster]

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2025
Episodes
17
Language
German

Around the time when Muzak For Cages was associated with German label "Erdenklang", a connection that didn't work as well as it should have, Muzak-founder Andreas-Michael Lucas took the opportunity to write and produce a series of radio-plays for a small local channel. These plays were hailed to be utterly unlistenable. They were too weird to even be presented live on a local stage. Muzak For Cages literarily got banned! But that didn't stop them. The radio-plays went on the air several times and this is a collection of recordings, that were used in "Der Frost Zirkus".

More about it

Some of the recordings were made in the studios of the station, recorded and mastered on chrome-tape-cassettes. The originals were transferred in 2005 to digital, but they all were mixdowns only, so any remixing was impossible. It was decided to keep the compilation private, because they didn't sound appropriate. One main problem was the use of noise reduction systems, another was the compression to MP3 for storage reasons. The negative (audio-) effects of both are very audible on most of these recordings, since these are the last surviving versions.

So every effort had to be taken, to restore, correct, re-EQ, and edit the material from wav-file mixdowns for this compilation.

For those, who may remember the original broadcasts: yes there were some additional recordings that went on the air at the time, but those don't represent best standard in terms of performance. A portion of „Radio Silencio“ was also…

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. Dies ist das Leben (1992)

    No date given · No. 1992 · 3:41

  2. Ich lese (1992)

    No date given · No. 1992 · 2:34

  3. Der Frost Zirkus - Jingle (1993)

    No date given · No. 1993 · 0:46

  4. Bop Bop (1993)

    No date given · No. 1993 · 1:57

  5. BAUCH (1993)

    No date given · No. 1993 · 17 min

  6. Ansage zu 'Das stille Zimmer' (1993)

    No date given · No. 1993 · 0:50

  7. DAS STILLE ZIMMER (1993)

    No date given · No. 1993 · 13 min

  8. Die innere Stimme (1993)

    No date given · No. 1993 · 1:34

  9. SPASSMODIAKK (1993)

    No date given · No. 1993 · 6:00

  10. (Das Radio ist) eine von uns (1993)

    No date given · No. 1993 · 7:37

  11. DIE NACKTE MANN STIMME (1994)

    No date given · No. 1994 · 26 min

  12. AUSSENPOSTEN DARM (1994)

    No date given · No. 1994 · 22 min

  13. DIE WEISSE WELT (1994)

    No date given · No. 1994 · 17 min

  14. WANDERUNG ZUR WELT HINTER DER WELT (1994)

    No date given · No. 1994 · 17 min

  15. RADIO SILENCIO (1995)

    No date given · No. 1995 · 7:16

  16. OPIUM 400 (1999)

    No date given · No. 1999 · 14 min

  17. ANDROMEDA BRILLIANTEN (2000)

    No date given · No. 2000 · 17 min

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The archive items its episodes are played from, best first, with each one’s rights as its archive states them. An episode two sets both hold is played from the first.

  1. DER FROST ZIRKUS [2025 Remaster]

    Listeners' uploads · Muzak For Cages · 17 episodes here · archive.org

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