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January 1981 found Gudrun Gut and Bettina Koster in Christopher Franke’s Berlin-Spandau Studio recording their first Malaria! EP (Zensor Records). Christine Hahn of The Static with Glenn Branca and Barbara Ess, joined in from New York, and Manon P. Duursma fresh from Nina Hagen’s O.U.T. project and Susanne Kuhnke completed the Line-Up.

Malaria! started touring intensively soon after the release of their 12”, commencing with a concert with New Order at Brussel’s Ancienne Belgique, and going on from there to concerts with Siouxsie and the Banshees, Birthday Party, The Slits, The AuPairs, Raincoats, Nina Hagen, John Cale, Einstuerzende Neubauten. They played venues as diverse as the Mudd Club, Peppermint Lounge and Studio 54 in New York, the Documenta in Kassel, the Bat Cave in London, Les Bains Douche in Paris, Milky Way and Paradiso in Amsterdam, ICA in London, the Piazza Santa Maria Novella in Florence and Markthalle in Hamburg and naturally, again and again, at the So36 in Berlin.

Trackliste

A1 How Do You Like My New Dog?
A2 Kaltes Klares Wasser
A3 Geh Duschen
A4 Zarah
A5 Pernod
B1 Your Turn To Run
B2 Thrash Me
B3 You You
B4 Kämpfen Und Siegen
B5 Dabo
C1 Geld - Money
C2 Leidenschaft - Passion
C3 Eifersucht - Jealousy
C4 Einsam - Lonesome
C5 Macht - Power
D1 Tod - Death
D2 Mensch
D3 Slave
D4 Traum - Dream
D5 Gewissen