Back in stock: Music is the Most Beautiful Language in the World - Yiddisher Jazz in London's East End 1920s to 1950s.
This release was compiled by .dein, the multi award winning radio documentary presenter. Alan Dein is an oral historian and radio broadcaster, mainly for BBC Radio 4. Co-compiled by Howard Williams, better known for his Japan Blues radio show on NTS.
Purchase LP here: https://www.playloud.org/archiveandstore/en/vinyl-12/703-music-is-the-most-beautiful-language-in-the-world.html
A vibrant soundtrack to the Cockney Jewish experience, when the swinging hot dance bands were still all the rage, and the Yiddish language was spoken on the streets of Whitechapel. Feast on long forgotten 78 rpm discs that have only recently been unearthed, starring a host of recording artists united for the first time on ‘chai fidelity’ vinyl. Originally released on JWM Records in 2018.
16/12/2025
Vito Camarretta writes for the magazine CHAIN D.L.K.: Michael Vincent Waller's "Moments: Remixes" is a masterful reimagini...
12/12/2025
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09/12/2025
Articulo en eldiario.es sobre Neue Weltumfassende Resistance: "Unas grabaciones realizadas en Córdoba hace más de diez años por el músico cordobés Gabi Delgado, figura esencial de la electrónica alemana y fundador de DAF, acaban de ver por fin la luz en un nuevo LP que publica en vinilo el sello berlinés play loud! productions.
El álbum, titulado Neue Weltumfassende Resistance, es el primer testimonio discográfico del proyecto del mismo nombre que Delgado desarrolló junto al músico y artista francés Marc Hurtado, integrante del influyente dúo experimental Étant Donnés.
Siguiendo una dinámica sin reglas —a veces Hurtado aportaba la música y Delgado la voz, a veces al revés—, el proyecto se forjaba en un ejercicio de libertad absoluta, descrito por ellos mismos como “un viaje cinematográfico de 360 grados”. Delgado y Hurtado se reencontraron en varias ocasiones para refinar ese corpus creativo: en Berlín en 2007 y en Córdoba en 2014 y 2018.
Las sesiones cordobesas, especialmente significativas para Delgado —nacido en España y criado en Alemania tras la salida de su familia durante el franquismo—, constituyen la base de parte del material que ahora se publica. "
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28/11/2025
Today is the official release date of the album NEUE WELTUMFASSENDE RESISTANCE (New World-wide Resistance), by Gabi Delgado (DAF, DELKOM, DAF DOS) and Marc Hurtado (ÉTANT DONNÉS and SOL IXENT).
Preorders have been fantastic, and there are only a few LPs and Digipaks left. So, if you can, be sure to grab your copy now. It's a limited edition of just 300 copies!
play loud! (live) music series FILM I: "Alan Vega Live at Rockpalast 1982" (53:42 min). The concert was filmed at Sartory Säle in Cologne (Germany) during the 82' "Collision Drive" tour. FILM II: Art exhibition "Alan Su***de: Collision Drive 2002" at Deitch Projects in New York City (16:40 min) plu...
20/11/2025
Today marks the 50th anniversary of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco’s death, and we have decided to celebrate by offering these silkscreen prints. Surely, the perfect tribute 😏
Created and signed by German artist Daniel Richter. 4 Motifs. 100 cm x 140 cm. 50 numbered copies limited edition.
The complete series with all four motifs can be ordered at www.playloud.org/archiveandstore/en/catalog/78-full-collection-4-prints.html
Very few complete series left!
In 2013, German artist Daniel Richter teamed up with filmmakers Lucía Palacios and Dietmar Post on a successful crowdfunding campaign to help fund their documentary "Franco's Settlers". Richter created four large-format silkscreen prints featuring the face of Franco, which were offered as rewards to backers.
For their second film on the Spanish dictatorship, "Franco on Trial", the filmmakers once again selected one of Richter's motifs as the central image for the poster.
Richter has also painted the motifs for the posters of three other films by Lucía Palacios and Dietmar Post: "Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback", "Klangbad: Avant-Garde in the Meadows" and "German Pop & Circumstance".
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17/11/2025
Eine schöne Kritik zur Wiederveröffentlichung des Klassikers von Grober Unfug:
Mit der Wiederveröffentlichung von “Beat & Glück” am 22. Januar erscheint bei play loud! eine der prägenden Hamburger Underground-Platten der frühen Achtziger erstmals wieder als LP. Das Album der 1980 in Niendorf gegründeten Band Grober Unfug verknüpft den rauen, direkten Sound eines in Rock’n’Roll getauchten Punk mit verspielter Unerschrockenheit.
Mit der Wiederveröffentlichung von "Beat & Glück" am 22. Januar erscheint bei play loud! eine der prägenden Hamburger Underground-Platten der frühen Achtziger erstmals wieder als LP. Das Album der 1980 in Niendorf gegründeten Band Grober Unfug verknüpft den rauen, direkten Sound eines in R...
14/11/2025
Get the vinyl LP at play loud! archive & store (the official record label)
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play loud! productions is a film & music production & label, founded 1997 in New York by filmmakers Dietmar Post and Lucía Palacios. Since 2002 the office is in Berlin. www.playloud.org
play loud! productions is a Berlin-based film production company and film and music label, founded in 1997 in New York by filmmakers Dietmar Post and Lucía Palacios. They are primarily known for their award winning documentaries covering music (Monks, Klangbad, Donna Summer) and politics (Franco’s Settlers, German Pop and Circumstance) in addition to fiction short films (Bowl of Oatmeal, Cloven Hooved). Their films capture multiple perspectives of their subjects with thorough interviews (conversations), allowing viewers to draw their own conclusions. Similar to many writers, labels and musicians, such as, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Can, Kraftwerk, Faust, ESP, Ton Steine Scherben, Dead Kennedys, EA 80, Einstürzende Neubauten, SST, Trikont, Frederick Wiseman, and others play loud! releases their films on their own film and music label. German critic Andreas Döhler has called Post and Palacios the German counterpart to the American Direct Cinema directors D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus.
In 2008 the filmmakers started working on a large archive project, the “play loud! (live) music series”, which is based on three precepts: Alan Lomax‘s work as an archivist and chronicler, John Peel‘s BBC radio sessions, and the work of Direct Cinema pioneers, such as the Maysles Brothers, Leacock, Wildenhahn and Pennebaker. “Filming live shows means not doing things TV-style, but in a very personal, intuitive and adventurous manner – nothing is staged for the shoot. You go along with things as they happen.” Some of the live performances are filmed with only one camera in one continuous shot and without any edits. Some critics have dubbed it “filmed paintings/painted films”.
play loud!’s music films have been called: “raw, rough, canny, straightforward, adventurous, witty, insightful, direct, non-tricksy, economic, minimal, unpretentious handheld camera work, unobtrusive, discreet and in depth”.
Musicians within the series are: Doc Schoko, Die Regierung, Lydia Lunch, Philipp Petit, Faust, Locust Fudge, Floating die Morel, Camera, Dieter Moebius, Michael Rother, Guru Guru, Limpe Fuchs, Burnt Friedman, Jaki Liebezeit, Christy & Emily, Gebrüder Teichmann, FM Einheit, Hans-Joachim Irmler, Damo Suzuki, Ilpo Väisänen, SchneiderTM, and many more.
