a solo career at Sony. At EMBRYO too, many years of collaboration among the musicians and composers Christian Burchard, Roman Bunka and Uve Müllrich came to an end after a trip to India – but not before the releases of the double LP “EMBRYO’s Reise” [“EMBRYO’s Trip”], a road movie, and a music documentary film “Vagabundenkarawane” [“Caravan of Vagabonds”] by Werner Penzel and Nico Humpert. EMBRYO’s dissidents hived off, joined forces with Hartmut Bremer, and co-founded the EXIL [EXILE] label, likewise at INDIGO. Christian Burchard formed EMBRYO anew with different personnel. Sparifankal switched to a new label and a new distributor. A great die-off of the pioneering German bands began, and no one wept to see the trailblazers disappear. Punk, Neue deutsche Welle, disco: the audience’s orientations had changed. Othmar Schreckeneder, EMBRYO’s producer since 1972, continued to publish audio recordings until the mid 1990s on the Schneeball label with EMBRYO and its guest musicians from diverse cultures and countries. He also published radio plays for Bayerischer Rundfunk [Bavarian Radio] (Ernst Jandl, Grace Yoon) and works by artists such as Eugen de Ryck, Chris Karrer, and Amon Düül II. EMBRYO switched to Trikont, thus remaining under Indigo’s distribution. Only Schreckeneder continued to use the label for occasional new releases, e.g. Charlie Mariano with Rama Mani in 2005 or Peter Michael Hamel with Thomas Gundermann in 2014. Schneeball was the trailblazer of the “Independent Label” movement, which conquered its place in the global music industry. First issues of April/Schneeball (0000) : Sparifankal - Bayernrock (0001) : Missus Beastly - Dr. Aftershave And The Mixed Pickles (0002) : Ton Steine Scherben - Wenn die Nacht am tiefsten ... (0003) : Embryo - Live (0004) : Julius Schittenhelm - Aristoteles (0005) : Embryo - Bad Heads And Bad Cats (0006) : Brühwarm Theater / Ton Steine Scherben - Mannstoll (0007) : Ton Steine Scherben - Keine Macht für Niemand (0008) : Ton Steine Scherben - Warum geht es mir so dreckig? (0009) : The Real Ax Band - nicht stehen bleiben, move your ass in time (0010) : Embryo - Apo Calypso (0011) : Missus Beastly - Space Guerrillia (0013) : APRIL ist SCHNEEBALL // sampler (0018) : Sparifankal - Huraxdax Drudnhax (0020) : Embryo - Embryo's Reise (0021) : Julius Schittenheim - Müllmutanten (0023) : Embryo - Live (2012) : Munju - Highspeed Kindergarten (2014) : Moira - Crazy Count Down (2015) :