Abortive Gasp Tribute To Edgar Schlepper (full Album) Germany, 2024
Warning, a musical collaboration between Hamburgers Edgar Schlepper, a music store owner, and Hans Müller, who worked at a record label, showcased Edgar Schlepper's stylistic connection to electronic darkwave music, reminiscent of bands like Skinny Puppy and Sisters of Mercy. During a joint jam session on a guitar synthesizer, they birthed several tracks, later released in 1982 by Phonogram as the studio album "Warning." Adopting the aliases Ed Vanguard (Edgar Schlepper) and Mike Yonder (Hans Müller), the musicians contributed to the album alongside the then Rattles drummer Dicky Tarrach, with backing vocals by two singers from the former Les Humphries Singers.
The song "Why Can the Bodies Fly" featured lyrics by Ines Gaim from Spain, while the rest were penned by Jürgen Barz. The musicians, donning masks resembling Darth Vader, presented themselves on the album cover.
Director Wolfgang Becker noticed "Why Can the Bodies Fly" during his vacation for its morbid tone, leading him to include it in the soundtrack of the 1983 Tatort episode "Peggy hat Angst." In the film, the perpetrator, portrayed by Hans-Georg Panczak, uses the song in stressful situations before committing murders, inducing panic in the character Peggy (played by Hannelore Elsner), who overhears it at her workplace. The distinctive song also plays over the phone, aiding in the connection to the perpetrator for both Peggy and the investigating detective Wiegand (played by Karin Anselm).
The single reached number eleven on the German and number seventeen on the Austrian charts, marking the duo's sole hit. Edgar Schlepper later ventured into producing music for audio dramas.
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