With their unpredictable live performances and songs like "Back to Concrete" and "Industrial Girl", S.Y.P.H. caused a sensation at the end of the 70s - as one of the bands around Düsseldorf's Ratinger Hof that began to write lyrics in German. From the very beginning, the band broke with genre-conformist expectations and made music that drew on rock, punk and Kraut as well as the unbridled nature of Dadaism and the reality of everyday life. S.Y.P.H. was founded in 1977 in Solingen and began playing concerts in nearby Düsseldorf. Initially clearly based on punk, the band's sound quickly developed and became increasingly difficult to categorize. In intensive years, productions were created that repeatedly featured guests from the Düsseldorf scene around the Ratinger Hof, but also Holger Czukay from the internationally known experimental rock band CAN, with whom they recorded two albums. First, the first creative phase from 1977 to 1982 is processed. The "Pure Freude Singles" including previously unreleased songs and the self-titled album "S.Y.P.H." Three further re-releases, two of them produced by CAN's Holger Czukay, will follow in 2025. S.Y.P.H. - S.Y.P.H. While punk and NDW solidified as supposedly clear terms around 1980, S.Y.P.H.'s music already testified to the actually more blurred genre boundaries on the first, self-titled LP: on the A-side, the band belts out short punk songs like "Zurück zum Beton" and "Lachleute und Nettmenschen" at us, while the B-side surprises with Kraut-inspired pieces lasting over ten minutes.
