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In 1983, a tape with the rather factual title “Rosa Beton – Demo 83” was circulated among friends from the East Berlin punk scene. Belonging to the enlightened type of German punk, Rosa Beton got by without genre-typical slogans – the band’s songs seemed downright sentient in East Berlin’s staccato sound system. Rosa Beton never performed in public, a planned concert was prevented either by the goddesses of fate or by the Stasi. Existing for only a brief underground season, the band eventually faded into the no-man’s land between punk and post-punk.
Along with Planlos, Rosa Extra, Betonromantik or Sendeschluß, Rosa Beton belonged to the same first generation of East Berlin punk bands that today casts a woefully short shadow when the media spotlight is directed at punk rock in the GDR. Having remained in the second string until today, Rosa Beton was among the first guard of punk rock Made in GDR.