Ata Tak Records

ATA TAK RECORDS

 
Ata Tak  ist ein Düsseldorfer Label, das 1979 gegründet wurde.  Es gilt als einer der Vorreiter der deutschen Independent-Bewegung und Mitauslöser der NDW.  (More from German Wikipedia – translation available)
 
 
Julie Jigsaw began a correspondence with Der Plan lead singer Moritz R. and got herself invited to Dusseldorf, where she stayed in the guest room at Ata Tak Records recording studios, downstairs from Der Plan bandmembers Kurt Dahlke (a/k/a Pyrolator) and Frank Fenstermacher
 
Several days later, Ja Ja Ja had laid down two more tracks, “Katz Rap” (“Cat Rap”) and “Mom; these were released in 1982 as their first single on Ata Tak Records.  This earned Ja Ja Ja and Julie Jigsaw recognition as the first female rapper in Europe.  (Katz Rap came out the year after Blondie’s pioneering single “Rapture” was released).   
 
Their self-titled album, Ja Ja Ja was released in 1982, also on the Ata Tak label.  Kurt Dahlke (Pyrolator) and Frank Samba are in the process of remastering the album for reissue as a CD on a Japanese label.  Their song “Katz Rap was included on a 2005 German compilation album called Grlz: Women Ahead of Their Time; and a copy of the original 45 is included in the Cornell University Library Hip Hop Collection
 
(February 2012)
 
Last edited: March 22, 2021