Malaria! / Danceteria

Ships in 7 Working Days In the late 70’s, Gudrun Gut, Bettina Köster, Karin Luner, Eva Gossling and Beate Bartel started Mania D, a new wave-underground band in West Berlin and were a part of the Geniale Dilletanten movement. Soon after in January 1981, Bettina Köster and Gudrun Gut stepped from the smoldering ashes of Mania D and began new project they called Malaria!. And with the release of the maxi EP "Malaria!" in April that year, the fever spread. The band filled out to include Manon P. Duursma ("O.U.T." an early Nina Hagen project), Christine Hahn (Static, Glen Branca), and Susanne Kuhnke (Die Haut), absorbing their diverse backgrounds and personalities and grew. They are most often associated with Neue Deutsche Welle and post-punk. Their music unified elements of free jazz with those of new wave by a distinctive saxophone sound. A first European tour followed during which they appeared on a John Peel session for the BBC and later recorded the single "How do you like my new