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Vending Machines – A History

The development of the #vendingmachine

Although Heron of Alexandria developed the first vending machine over two millennia ago, the idea was slow to take off. One of the earliest “modern” forms was the honour box, a feature of English taverns from the 17th until at least the 19th century. A form of portable tobacco dispenser made of brass, and designed to be passed around, it had a slot to take a penny coin and a plunger which, once…

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A-T-3 248 Cologne's Stollwerck Collectives

These recordings all come out of Cologne's Stollwerck complex '[a] the disused Stollwerck chocolate factory in the inner city of Cologne became the site of one of the most spectacular squatting actions in West Germany. Hundreds of predominantly young people protested against the city's plans to tear down the industrial buildings and instead demanded the existing buildings be converted as a do-it-yourself project by the squatters themselves and other activist groups. The occupation of Stollwerck was the climax of a conflict over the question of how to cope with deindustrialization and transform Cologne into a post-industrial city.' (Haumann)

The Stollwerck building is now a community centre with artists studios and a theatre. Unfortunately I can only find articles in German about it and other than a few phases ("mein vater ist krank") I can't read German

Back to 1983. You could do a Rock Family Tree about these players. Dunkelziffer is born out of the Phantom Band who were formed by Can drummer Jaki Liebzeit and ex-Can bass player Rosko Gee. I'm going to share a track of Dominik Von Senger's debut solo album, Von Senger was guitarist for the Phantom band and Dunkelziffer. I'm also sharing a track by The Unknown Cases, both members of The Unknown Cases were in Dunkelziffer with Helmut Zerlett also playing keyboards for the Phantom Band and the slightly earlier Food Band. Matthias Keul from the Food Band also joined Dunkelziffer, so as you can see Dunkelziffer was a loose collective based around members of Can, the Phantom Band, the Food Band, and I think it had a bit of an open door policy for anyone else who wanted to join in. Other members of Can join Dunkelziffer, Ghanaian percussionist Rebop Kwaku Baah, and Damo Suzuki joins Dunkelziffer for their second album 1984's In The Night and members of Dunkelziffer would become the Damo Suzuki Band

The track that really blows me away out of everything that's released by these guys in 1983 is Masimba Bele by The Unknown Cases. The core members of The Unknown Cases were Helmut Zerlett and Stefan Krachten, at the time in 1983 Rebop Kwaku Baah is also credited as a member. Dominik Von Senger also plays on their debut single as well as fellow Dunkelziffer members Olek Gelba, Reiner Linke, and Wolfgang Schubert (amongst others)

Masimba Bele gets reissued and updated a lot over the years

Dominik Von Senger releases his solo album The First in 1983. The line-up playing on Dominik Von Senge's debut would be pretty much identical to The Unknown Cases above but Rebop Kwaku Baah is sadly missing because he died on a cerebral hemorrhage during a performance on tour with Jimmy Cliff in January 1983

Rosko Gee plays bass and produces The First and Phantom Band vocalist Sheldon Ancel also performs on the album

Dominik Von Senger - No Name this is the original from The First. No Name is updated and released by Golf Channel in 2009

Dominik Von Senger - Serial No. The First is a decent album

Colours And Soul is the name of Dunkelziffer's debut full length which follows their debut ep in 1982. It's much looser and lighter than the other tracks you'll find in this post. The title track is ace, it has a brilliant animated video too, in addition to being on the album it's also on Dunkelziffer's second single Don't Ask Me - which includes a 'special version' of Don't Ask Me which sounds nice played at 33

Dunkelziffer - Colours And Soul Emotional Rescue put out a Dunkelziffer retrospective in three parts in 2013

Zahara was ex-Can and Dunkelziffer members Rosko Gee and Rebop Kwaku Baah. The two of them had both been in Traffic with Steve Winwood. Guyanese-born drummer Richard Bailey was on drums, he'd been drummer for brit bands such as Gonzales and soul jazz bands The Breakfast Club and Incognito, his elder brother is Robert Bailey of Osibisa. The final member of Zahara was American musician Paul Delph who at the time was singer/keyboardist for Zoo Drive that backed loads of acts like Toni Basil (Hey Mickey) and The Weather Girls (It's Raining Men)

Zahara - Valeska

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Alpia verlost XL-Plüschfiguren und Fansets zum Film "Paddington 2"

Neues #Gewinnspiel: #Alpia #Schokolade verlost XL-Plüschfiguren und Fansets zum Film "Paddington 2" - #Hamsterrausch

Kleiner Bär und großes Abenteuer: Zum Kinostart von “Paddington 2” (Bundesstart: 23.11.2017) hat Schokoladenhersteller Stollwerck mit seiner Marke Alpia (unter anderem auf der Sorte Flakes & Erdnüsse) ein Gewinnspiel gestartet. Alpia verlost XL-Plüschfiguren von Paddington, dem Bär. Zudem gibt es Fansets.

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10x XL-Plüschfigur Bär Paddington

50x Fanset zum Film “Paddington 2”

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