Punkt by Harald "Sack" Ziegler

A killer collection of Cologne-based legend Harald Sack Ziegler's greatest hits, fully re-mastered from his long out-of-print vinyl and cassette-only releases. None of these 22 tracks has ever been available on CD before.

“A spastic journey through goofy electronic pop that brings in bits of tons of different genres and an almost Dadaist sense of humor in places (…) To say the very least, it's a completely weird ride, with toy instruments, melodica, drum machines, guitars, and a slew of other instruments all contributing to the scatterbrained madness.” (Almost Cool)

“'Punkt' is a gobby blast of lo-fi punk-pop that in no way points to his later involvement with Mouse On Mars, Sack & Blumm and the A-Musik scene. Ranging in tone and quality from the scratchy bluster of 'Schokolade' through to the falsetto (and Clash-esque) crystalline punk of 'Bungalow', all the songs included on 'Punkt' feature Ziegler on vocals and just about everything else; the result being at turns dangerously addictive and cloyingly twee. Whilst such a plethora of half-baked ideas could have felled a lesser man, tracks like 'Sie Riecht So Gut' benefit hugely from their lack of finesse and present Ziegler as a wandering troubadour willing to drop everything to knock out a jaunty slice of Germanic skank-pop (see 'Neonlicht') or one-man-band mayhem ('Plastikblume')“. (Boomkat)

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