Anyone who runs a website on their own knows that it’s not free, and it can even get a little expensive when you’ve got multiple hosting accounts and tons of domain names like I do in my little web empire. The money to keep sites like Germaniac.com running smoothly has to come from somewhere. The thing is, I don’t want to insert Google ads and huge banners all over the place because I hate them as much as you do, so I have decided to have a special CD sale to raise some money for the site. It’s the best solution I can think of. You get some new music and support one of your favorite websites at the same time.

I am selling 136 CDs! Some of them are albums that I have somehow aquired more than one copy of in my own personal collection which I don’t need, and others are CDs that I just don’t listen to anymore as my tastes have changed. There are brand new CDs that I have aquired from various bands that I have helped over the years. And I will also be including special discounts on all CDs from the official band shops I operate on Stahlhammer.org and Schmerzwerk.com. All together, a wide variety of genres are accounted for in these CDs, and the bands come from all around the world (although you can be sure there are a lot of German bands in there).

Also for sale are all 4 Radio Goethe compilations which will benefit the RG program and independent radio. Each one has dozens of songs by a variety of German bands packed onto 2 CDs and they cost just $5 each! I honestly can’t think of a better way to introduce yourself or your friends to such a wide range of great German music.

If you want to see what’s for sale, just head on over to this page. All instructions you will need to order are listed there as well. Thanks for your support!

This week, Arndt has a very special Radio Goethe podcast for us. The entire show is dedicated to the most internationally successful German band ever. Of course, I’m talking about Rammstein. Not only does the show offer songs from nearly every Rammstein album, but it is also laced with clips from a recent interview Radio Goethe had with Paul Landers, one of Rammstein’s guitarists. So open up iTunes or start streaming the show from RadioGoethe.org and listen to history.

This week’s Radio Goethe podcast playlist
Rammstein: Wollt ihr das Bett in Flammen sehen
Rammstein: Du hast
Rammstein: Mein Herz brennt
Rammstein: Amerika
Rammstein: Spring
Rammstein: Sehnsucht
Rammstein: Weisses Fleisch
Rammstein: Links 2 3 4
Rammstein: Mein Teil
Rammstein: Ich will
Rammstein: Feuer frei (live)

This week, Radio Goethe has a very special podcast for us. The entire hour is devoted to the new Einstürzende Neubauten album Alles Wieder Offen. You can listen to all 10 songs on this incredible album at any time this week by streaming the podcast on RadioGoethe.org, or you can download the MP3 file from iTunes and keep it for as long as you want.

Radio Goethe podcast playlist:
Einstürzende Neubauten: Alles wieder offen
Einstürzende Neubauten: Ich warte
Einstürzende Neubauten: Nagorny Karabach
Einstürzende Neubauten: Unvollständigkeit
Einstürzende Neubauten: Let’s to it a Dada
Einstürzende Neubauten: Die Wellen
Einstürzende Neubauten: Weil Weil Weil (download just this song)
Einstürzende Neubauten: Susej
Einstürzende Neubauten: Von wegen
Einstürzende Neubauten: Ich hatte ein Wort

Enjoy!

The new Radio Goethe podcast is online and ready to go. This week, Arndt starts out with some electronic songs, then he takes us through some rock and medieval tracks (including some new Subway To Sally), and ends with some more industrial sounding songs. Overall, a great mix of some of the best music genres from Germany. Take a listen, on iTunes or RadioGoethe.org.

This week’s Radio Goethe podcast:
Melotron: Das Herz
Scheinkraft: Traumzerstörer
Purwien mit Witt: Alle Fehler
Gas feat. Frl. Menke: Du bist nicht hier
Subway To Sally: Meine Seele brennt
Subway To Sally: Puppenspieler
Saltatio Mortis: Prometheus
Beatsteaks: Demons Galore
Robocop Kraus: Waiting above the ocean
KMFDM: Tohuvabohu
Beloved Enemy: The other side
The Beauty of Gemina: Kingdoms of cancer
Compulsory Skin: All you can eat
YelworC: Icolation

Even though my roots are in industrial and metal, I’ve had an increasing interest in ambient electronic music over the past couple years. This week’s Radio Goethe podcast really appeals to that side of me. As I sit here writing this, I am already enjoying the calm, atmospheric sounds of the synthesizers. They are drawn out here for your enjoyment, too. If you’re feeling stressed out, this podcast will help you relax. And despite what looks like a short playlist, these 8 songs actually slightly overshoot the 1 hour timeframe of the podcast, so there’s certainly no lack of good music here.

As always, you can download an MP3 of the podcast on iTunes by doing a search for Radio Goethe. Or of you prefer, you can stream the file by clicking the “Listen to the latest show” button at the top of the Radio Goethe website.

Digitalis: Basis
Digitalverein: Treppe nach unten
Philipp Weigl: Underwater Dancer
Krill.Minima: Apfelbaumgrund
Tomcraft: Broadsword calling Danny Boy
Tomcraft: People like them (feat. Xavier Naidoo)
Null.eins: Latenight
Falter: Taumelflug 2

This week’s Radio Goethe podcast is geared more towards people into the heavier sounds: hard rock, metal, and industrial-metal. These are some of the genres that Germany is best known for, and there is a lot to choose from. Check out the new show to listen to some of the essential bands and a few more obscure and newer bands from this area. It is available on the Radio Goethe website or on iTunes. This is definitely one of my favorite podcasts.

Don’t miss the little Germaniac.com promo after the DKay.com song! Thanks, Arndt.

Megaherz: Glas und Tränen
Schweisser: Helden
Muff Potter: Das Finkelmann’sche Lachen
Mongo Fünf: Alles wird gut
Die Jünger: Unerhört
Geist: Leider
Schacht: Abwärts
ASP: Ich will brennen
Oomph!: Gott ist ein Popstar
Dkay.com: Carcrash music for now people
B.O.S.C.H.: God
Rammstein: Ich will
KMFDM: Tohuvabohu
Ancient Gallery: Very hard to… (feat. Kamikaze 52)

This week’s Radio Goethe podcast focuses on acoustic and unplugged music from Germany. You may be surprised to learn that Germany actually has a lot of American-style country music. I’m not quite sure why… I’ve never really been a big fan of it, but try it out. You can listen to the podcast on the Radio Goethe website or download it on iTunes.

Daddy Long Legs: Food for thought
Infamis: Ach, bittrer Winter
Fury in the Slaughterhouse: Every generation got its own disease
Fury in the Slaughterhouse: Down there
Markus Rill: Singin’ in the cemetery
Cow: Travelling the long road home
Christina Lux: Coming home at last
K.C. McKanzie: Brother, my brother
Anja Krabbe: Gestrandet (Unplugged, Berlin U-Bahnhof Yorkstr.)
Glamourboys: Redeem yourself (Unplugged)
For the sake of order: Mistress (Unplugged)
Soon is Now: Disarm (Unplugged)
Brandl & Schmitt: Great Western Blues
Westernhagen: Geiler is’ schon
Bap: Wie die Sichel vum Mohnd (Acc. Version)
Dan Reeder: Just a tune

Sorry I didn’t get this posted yesterday when this new podcast was first put online, but I have been very busy working on a redesign of Germaniac.com which will be launched very soon! But even if this is a day late, you still have the rest of the week to listen to this incredibly diverse selection of German music. Arndt is all over the place in this one, going from rock to metal to industrial to electro to gothic to who knows what. Get this podcast loaded on iTunes or on RadioGoethe.org and prepare yourself for a wild ride.

The new Radio Goethe podcast playlist:
Robocop Kraus: Waiting above the ocean
Phillip Boa & The Voodooclub: The night before the last was Saturday night
Schöngeist: Mein Herz bricht
IFF, feat. Alexx: Königin der Nacht
Super700: I love the rain
Wingenfelder: Alone
Lydia Daher: Gott wohnt hinter meinem linken Ohr
Kitchen Cowboys: Schlaflos
Fiddler’s Green: Irish air
Polkaholix: Das Modell
Hiss: Friedhofspolka
Los Gigantes: Piano Man
Coppelius: 1916
yelworC: Icolation
Tomcraft: Ready to go (Club mix)

The new Radio Goethe podcast is now online and features some of the best electronic acts from Germany. Listen by downloading the podcast on iTunes or streaming it from the Radio Goethe website.

Radio Goethe podcast playlist
Rotersand: Merging Oceans
Painbastard: The face of war
Controlled Fusion: Disregards
In Strict Confidence: Zauberschloss
Carlos Peron: Los Alamos
Carlos Peron: This is the BBC worldservice
ALP: Au Bout
Ulrich Schnauss: Stars
Gudrun Gut: Rock bottom riser
Gudrun Gut: Blätterwald
ZanderVT: Far From Jaded

The latest Radio Goethe podcast opens with some music that hasn’t even been released yet: 2 new tracks from Einstürzende Neubauten’s forthcoming album Alles Wieder Offen. It will be released in late October (more details in a future post) but why wait until then to start listening to it? The first half of the show is rounded out with some more experimental-electronic songs including a great remix of Faust’s “Wir Brauchen Dich #6″ from the remix album Freispiel, as well as the original version of “T-Electronique” which can be found on their Ravvivando album. (The original version of “Wir Brauchen Dich #6″ can also be found on Ravvivando.)

If you like the Faust you hear, I really recommend checking out the album he did with Dälek, an indie-hip-hop musician from New Jersey. I know what you’re thinking… I was hesitant at first, too, but Dälek is nothing at all like your typical hip-hop music, and their music combined with the incredible experimentation of Faust make for an absolutely amazing fusion of sounds that is unlike anything I have heard before or since. The album, Derbe Respect Alder, also features a modified version of the song “T-Electronique” from this podcast.

Getting back to the show, the second half is a mini-special focusing on the final album by Sonic Front which was just recently released. You can listen to the Radio Goethe podcast either by subscribing to it on iTunes or simply by streaming it from the Radio Goethe website by clicking on “Listen to the latest show” at the top of the page.

The new Radio Goethe podcast
Einstürzende Neubauten: Die Wellen
Einstürzende Neubauten: Alles Wieder Offen
Dave Ball & Ingo Vauk: Wir Brauchen Dich #6
Faust: T-Electronique
Mathias Schaffhäuser: Hey little girl
Sonic Front: White out
Sonic Front: 36 Below
Sonic Front: Forgetting is bliss
Sonic Front: Common ground
Sonic Front: Crazy
Sonic Front: Wave Goodbye