PC Records
PC-Records is a German neonazi music label. The label is an outcome of Chemnitz neonazi scene and one of the most active of the far-right and "Rock Against Communism" music in Germany. PC Record is releasing some of the most influential violent nazi rock bands. Several of the label's released CDs were indexed for neo-fascist content. The label includes a shop and a mailorder business. The name "PC" refers to „Political Correctness, no thanks!“.[1]
| PC Records | |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2000 |
| Founder | Hendrik Lasch |
| Genre | neonazi rock, RAC |
| Country of origin | Germany |
| Location | Chemnitz |
According to the Constitutional Protection of Saxony (Landesamt für Verfassungsschutz Sachsen), PC Records "has a high reputation in the right-wing extremist scene at home and abroad. Its turnover is estimated at several hundred thousand euros per year. The profits enable business owners not only to make a living, but also to finance and promote scene activities."[2]
Connections and glorification of NSU terrorist
Founder of PC Record Hendrik Lasch had good connections to Uwe Mundlos of later NSU in the 1990this. Lasch promoted a T-shirt, especially made to raise money to support the three neonazi activists of NSU, which hide from the police.[3]
The album "Adolf Hitler Lives" by a band called "Gigi & Die Braunen Stadtmusikanten" was released on PC Records in 2010. On the CD there is also the song "Döner-Killer". In it, Daniel Giese praises the series of murders of the "National Socialist Underground" (NSU), which was later uncovered.[4][5]
Bands
With around 200 releases in the period from 2000 to 2014, all from far-right rock, PC-Records is one of the most active right-wing labels in Germany. With numerous solo samplers, the label finances activities of the neo-fascist scene and its protagonists. The label released music from the following bands:[6]
- Aryan Brotherhood
- Arische Jugend
- Act of Violence
- Blitzkrieg|Blitzkrieg, Chemnitz
- Brutal Attack, UK
- Die Lunikoff Verschwörung (follow-up project of the forbidden Berlin band „Landser“)
- Division Germania, Mönchengladbach
- Gigi & Die Braunen Stadtmusikanten, Daniel Giese
- Heilige Jugend
- Kodex Frei
- Sacha Korn
- Sleipnir
- Sturmwehr
- Skalinger
- Ungebetene Gäste
References
- Uwe Backes et al: Rechts motivierte Mehrfach- und Intensivtäter in Sachsen (= Berichte und Studien. Nr. 69). Puplished by Hannah-Arendt-Institut für Totalitarismusforschung. V&R Unipress, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8471-0374-5, S. 201.
- "Verfassungsschutz - Rechtsextremismus". www.verfassungsschutz.sachsen.de.
- Sybille Steinbacher: Rechte Gewalt in Deutschland: Zum Umgang mit dem Rechtsextremismus in Gesellschaft, Politik und Justiz
- Music!, Don't Call it. "Nazi-Musiklabels – Agitatoren und Profiteure".
- "PC Records & Backstreet Noise | "Rechts" sind doch die anderen!?". wachsam-in-chemnitz.de.
- Maegerle, Anton (May 12, 2014). "»Schlag ihn tot, den Jud«". Jüdische Allgemeine.