condition (record/cover): NM / VG+ (light general wear)

For a brief stretch around 1980, Conrad Schnitzler flirted with the pop single, and Auf Dem Schwarzen Kanal is the splendid result. Named after the GDR's notorious propaganda television programme, issued improbably by the major label RCA, and stamped "Super-Sound-Single, Disco-Remix" beside a photograph of Schnitzler's face painted black and white, it sets his abrasive electronics to something close to a Neue Deutsche Welle beat, complete with vocals he rarely otherwise used.

A monster of a track that, by rights, should have been as big as anything Kraftwerk put out. The RCA twelve-inch.