Diat

Diat

S.O.36 Berlin Sept ‘22

Iron Lung

***On a rare evening in 2022, the city of Berlin found all 4 members of its favorite gloomy post-punk band inside the walls of the legendary Kreuzberg venue S.O.36. A historic and culturally vital institution that has housed heaps of classic performances reaching all the way back to 1978. DIÄT was in top form this evening, and we were lucky to learn the sound people were wise enough to hit record at the desk. The set was atmospheric and tense throughout but highlighted with moments of intimate playfulness that one is normally only privy to in person. The crowd was treated to a mixed bag of beloved album tracks and obscure catalog deep cuts—some of which have never been available on vinyl before now. The band rarely played at that point and will most likely not play again any time soon, so this LP is your best shot at hearing one of the greatest bands do the thing they were born to do.Edition of 700 copies of 150gr black vinyl housed in a 350gsm jacket with A4 insert included. FFO: New Order bootlegs, ZickZack deep cuts, Australian post punk, German efficiency.

Diat

Positive Disintegration

Iron Lung

***BACK IN STOCK!!! Years in the making, the follow-up or maybe even companion piece to 2015's Positive Energy, Positive Disintegration sees the band with a bit more of a pop zap to the ever present post punk dreariness of modern Berlin life... Or even modern life at large as most of the lyrical content has to do with the monotony of barely getting by or trying to have a meaningful exchange with a remotely interesting person. These things are hard to come by most of the time and this music eats at that very feeling. It's almost enough to make you wanna throw in the towel and move to Spain without a care in the world to haunt your remaining days. You probably won't though, you'll most likely listen to this record while you sip your overpriced room temperature coffee drink whilst ordering new bulbs for your anti depression lamp from a major online retailer. It just feels like life is getting away from you, ya know? Dark. Housed in 24pt reverse board jackets with lyric sheet, poster and download card included.

Diat

Positive Energy

Iron Lung

***BACK IN STOCK!!! Receieved a 7.0 rating from Pitchfork. The long awaited debut full length has finally arrived. And the wait was well worth it. DIAT have worked, worked and reworked these 8 songs until they were perfect. Who is this band you ask? Let us introduce you: "Brought together by a shared enthusiasm for bleak UK punk and a history of playing in hardcore bands, Berlin based DIÄT have created a sound that they have described, perhaps not entirely seriously, as ‘tough new wave’. Fans of Crisis, Killing Joke and The Mob (UK) should be pleased by the band’s unlikely synthesis of depressive drift and cranked, accelerated energy. ‘Positive Energy was recorded last Winter while huddled in a practice space overlooking the industrial landscape of frozen East Berlin, the album finds Diät reining in the threads of malignant enthusiasm still peppered throughout their earlier recordings (both 7"s previously released on this fine imprint) to focus on the cynicism and dejectedness that binds them as a band." Packaged in a high quality reverse board jacket with a 12-page lyric booklet only available in this version of the LP. All copies on black vinyl. The download comes with the "Hurricane" video as well.