{"id":5673,"date":"2012-04-27T13:05:17","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T20:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=5673"},"modified":"2012-05-02T08:08:44","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T15:08:44","slug":"tocotronic-extras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/tocotronic-extras\/","title":{"rendered":"Neo-Krautrock Wunderkind from Old Orchard Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"

May 2012<\/p>\n

Panel 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

1: Elke Heidenreich walks with her distorted guitar through Berlin.<\/p>\n

Panel 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

1: To the delight of Berlin visitors, she sits alone at the Wasserklops and plays hits.<\/p>\n

2: Colonies of love, I love the colonies\u2026<\/p>\n

3: That is the Rowohlt publisher.<\/p>\n

4: They need to know what\u2019s good for them.<\/p>\n

5: Ah! Else Stratmann\u2013the crazy chicken from the Mittelland Canal.<\/p>\n

6: It\u2019s the same amp I have at home.<\/p>\n

7: But it has active speakers like a man.<\/p>\n

Panel 3<\/strong><\/p>\n

1: But suddenly, the performance is interrupted by a calf cramp!<\/p>\n

2: Waah! The distortion hurt my leg!<\/p>\n

3: True, it doesn\u2019t distort even more.<\/p>\n

Panel 4<\/strong><\/p>\n

1: Fortunately the guys from Tocotronic are in the audience.<\/p>\n

2: Let me through! I am Ernst Hugo von Salen-Priesnitz of Tocotronic and have cramp ointment here.<\/p>\n

Panel 5<\/strong><\/p>\n

1: I\u2019m with Rowohlt.<\/p>\n

2: Oh, really? We are with L\u2019Age D\u2019or\u00a0 but are distributed by Motor Music Group.<\/p>\n

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