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Die Regierung
German experimental industrial project from the early 1980s, releasing cassettes through underground labels like IRRE Tapes and Elektrische Welt.
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Die Regierung was a German experimental and industrial music project active during the early 1980s. Operating within the burgeoning underground tape culture of post-punk and industrial music, the group released material primarily through independent cassette labels including IRRE Tapes and Elektrische Welt Cassetten. Their output, exemplified by releases such as "Nie Wieder Euphorie" and "Bleib Blind!" (both 1982), engaged with noise, experimental sound design, and dark aesthetics characteristic of the era's DIY industrial underground. The project's work reflected the broader European experimental music movement of the period, which emphasized lo-fi production values and conceptual approaches to sound. Though limited documentation remains, Die Regierung's cassette-based releases represent an important artifact of early 1980s German underground music culture and the wider noise and industrial music networks that emerged during that decade.