★Unknown Capability Recordings
Volume Four
**2020 stock** "While working as a sound editor for DEFA in the 1970’s and 80's Martin Zeichnete led a secret, parallel life writing music to train and inspire East Germany’s athletic elite. This fourth compilation of Zeichnete’s work will take us on a cosmic voyage of both the body and the mind... Tracks 1 to 4 of this collection contains a running program at 150 bpm taken from various years of the project. After the warm-up fanfare of Zeit zum Laufen 150 (1977) we launch into the sleek, motori…
Volume Three
**2020 stock** "This third collection of Martin Zeichnete's secret work for the DDR's athletic elite comes in two parts. First, a running program (Tracks 1-3) at 164BPM finds Zeichnete at his most hypnotic, particularly on the motorik, rolling Jenseits des Horizonts. This set ends with the elegiac Für Seelenbinder, a song dedicated to Olympic wrestler and communist hero Werner Seelenbinder. Particularly exciting is the second part (Tracks 4 - 10), a soundtrack to a lost animated film UCR obtaine…
Volume One
**2020 stock** "In the mid 1960s East German Minister for Sport Manfred Ewald closed all state sport facilities to the prying eyes of the outside world and enacted State Plan 14.25. A systematic doping regime which brought great Olympic success to the DDR throughout the '70s and '80s but with little or no thought for sportsmanship or their athletes long term health. What few knew is that as well as doping and utilising one of the most sophisticated scientific sport programmes ever devised some m…
Live In Graz
**2020 stock** "Recorded live at The Orpheum Theatre in Graz, Austria. 25.02.15. It is perhaps apt that the first live performances of Martin Zeichnete's music were by Yann Tiersen and his band. It was at the Breton musician's 2013 concert in Berlin that Unknown Capability Recordings' Drew McFadyen first met Zeichnete and the road to his musical re/discovery began. UCR’s first release from the Kosmischer Läufer archive that year led to calls for Zeichnete to emerge from the shadows and play live…