Sascha Funke - Germina Speeder

Format: 12" Vinyl
Catalogue No.: KOMPAKT497
Barcode: 4250101477188
Release Date: 07 Mar 2025
Genre: Techno/House

Sascha Funke is creating a long overdue monument to an almost forgotten cultural artefact of the GDR: the ‘Germina Speeder’ was the only skateboard made in East Germany before reunification and was launched in 1986.

 It was produced by VEB Schokoladen-Verarbeitungsmaschinen (a state-owned chocolate processing machine factory) in Wernigerode and was therefore affectionately known as the ‘chocolate board’. However, it was hardly suitable for actual skateboarding due to technical inadequacies. 

It is not known whether Sascha himself owned such a board, but the tracks on the ‘Germina Speeder’ EP definitely roll better than the original. The opener ‘Blaupunkt’ breathes the euphoric spirit of the legendary Berlin club ‘E-Werk’, while the title track would have been more at home at the ‘Dubmission’ parties in the Turbine. 

Sascha leaves the 90s behind with radiant positivism; ‘Bo Knows’ sounds more like a 2000s open air at Café Schönbrunn. The EP closes with ‘Mastermind’, a high-octane psy-proghouse banger that, like all four tracks, quotes the past but still has both feet on today’s dance floors. Or rather, is dancing. 4:1 for love!

Tracklisting 
A1    Sascha Funke    Blaupunkt    00:05:22
A2    Sascha Funke    Germina Speeder    00:06:40
B1    Sascha Funke    Bo Knows    00:06:57
B2    Sascha Funke    Master Mind    00:05:43