LP / Rave Up Records / 2012 (1981)
lim. edition
X-BELIEBIG was founded in Wiener Neustadt in 1980 by the two
then-17-year-olds Rene Adamecz (guitars/vocals), Franz Heuschneider
(bass), as well as Bernd Bechtloff (drums)—Bechtloff had just turned 13
years old at the time. The primary musical focus was at first
German-language punk, although none of the musicians considered
themselves punk rockers.They rehearsed for several months and, in 1980,
gave their first concert at the Snack-Bar, a highly popular venue in
Wiener Neustadt at the time. Performances near Wiener Neustadt with
various smaller bands from Wiener Neustadt (among them Zerbrechlich and
Dämmerattacke), mostly in self-organized concerts, followed. The band
later went on to perform in Vienna, at the Amerlinghaus, Metropol,
Gassergasse and the U4.In the spring of 1981, the original bassist [close] Franz Heuschneider switched to the Wiener Neustadt band Dämmerattacke
and was replaced by Zoltán Daróczi. Starting at this time, a clear
change in the band’s musical focus, away from punk and towards music
inspired by the band Joy Division but with German texts, could be
observed.In the spring of 1981 a cassette recording was recorded for the
Panza-Platte label, and the single Leben ist Blut / Illusionen
(english: Life is Blood / Illusions) was recorded in the summer of 1981.