With ‘Sowas von Egal 3’, the Hamburg-based Damaged Goods DJ team continues its compilation series on Bureau B, once again turning its attention to the underground scenes of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland in the early 1980s.
The spiky drive and romantic melodies of early-mid ’80s Mittel European dancefloors is fully embraced on Sowas von Egal 3 (German Synth Wave Underground 1981-86) with some 16 nuggets sifted from tape compilations and hard-to-find pressings. Prevailing streams of US & UK new wave, disco and punk are puckered with a Teutonic efficiency and wizzed-up sexiness on all counts from the bubbling hook of ‘He Sabine’ by Guyer’s Connection’ thru the DAF-esque swag of an EBM pioneer Tommi Stumpf in…

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