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00:09 That's me, Stefan. I spent my childhood between mixing desk and manure.
00:14 Our farm was always chock full of musicians.
00:16 The music they recorded is the soundtrack of my youth and my father the conductor.
00:21 [music]
00:28 If you have enough great things in your record collection,
00:32 where the name Conny Blank is written everywhere,
00:35 then somehow the assumption is that the man must have been pretty good.
00:39 Basically, Conny discovered us.
00:40 Because he gave us a chance as a very young band
00:43 to get what was in the band.
00:46 [music]
00:48 Whether it was Cluster, whether it was Neu, whether it was Early Krabberg,
00:51 whether it was D.A.F. later on,
00:53 he enabled them to realize their vision and realize it as clearly and as fully as possible.
00:58 Conny let the musicians do what they do and then he raised the bar.
01:04 Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam.
01:07 Musically, he was absolutely a revolution.
01:11 You know, your father always had these visions of sound that we related to.
01:15 The beginning was good. The star dust.
01:17 The stuff he scraped on the drums.
01:21 [music]
01:34 He spoke and he thought in sound.
01:37 [music]
01:40 I don't know, did he ever read you something or put you to bed
01:44 or did he leave something nice with you?
01:47 [music]
01:53 It wasn't a dream of my father.
01:55 [music]
02:02 This is a noise I can try to find if it's possible to make music out of.
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