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Nostalgie Éternelle
12+ albums
industrialminimalcoldwaveambientgerman
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Both sad, bored and on the rebound from a broken love affair, Dieter Mauson (°1964) and Stefan Heinze (°1966 a.k.a. INOX KAPELL) run into one another in the streets of the North-Western German town of Leer in 1986. The post-punks get on well, both being record collectors and adherent lovers of the Neue Deutsche Welle and the industrial and electronic musical underground. An upcoming underground music festival in their hometown is the perfect opportunity to blend Mauson’s bass and guitarplaying with the electronics of Heinze. Their angst-ridden poetry gets a second life as lyrics. The home-taping is done literally in Inox’ bedroom, and recording sessions are interrupted to have tea and watch television in company of his parents. Within a month and a half the duo HEAVY SEX (courtesey of PORTION CONTROL’s 1983 ‘Shot In The Belly’ tape) is on stage for the first gig in the Fall of 1986. Not quite happy with the heavy sex moniker, FRANKIE MACHINE (taken form the 1955 junkiefilm ‘The Man With The Golden Arm’) becomes the shortlived new flag for a second gig. ETERNAL LONGING But in the long run Dieter's poetry delivers the name that will stick: Eternal longing takes on a French shape as NOSTALGIE ÉTERNELLE. One might think that this name is catching up with the duo because the interest in their music is now bigger than in the 1980’s but Dieter Mauson disagrees: “We know most people are thinking about to look back to the past with a longing and to want it back, but this is not th
