WALTER RUTTMANN WEEK END REMIX (2001)

intermedium rec. 003
Walter Ruttmann (1887-1941) was a german director, screenwriter, cinematographer and editor. As a filmmaker, he created an impressionistic symphony with his experimental portrait of Berlin in 1927 Berlin, die Sinfonie der Großstadt.
His unique musical composition Weekend is a pioneering work from the early days of radio, commissioned in 1928 by Berlin Radio Hour. In a collage of words, music fragments and sounds, Walter Ruttmann presented a radically innovative radio piece (Hörspiel) as an acoustic film of a Berlin weekend urban landscape. (discogs) Disapeared for a long time, a copy was discovered in 1978 and showed how innovative was this piece !
Intermedium Records is a german label of avant-garde and radioplays records. These remixes were commissioned for the Bayerischer Rundfunk.

Tracklist
1 Walter Ruttmann – Weekend
2 Ernst Horn – Sympathie Für Schulze Remix
3 DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid – Gedanken Form Remix
4 Mick Harris – Makeshift Whitebox Remix
5 Klaus Buhlert – Production Memory Remix
6 To Rococo Rot – Berlin 98 Version
7 John Oswald – Wknd 58

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