This book is dedicated to the history of the music label Free Music Production (FMP) which
from 1968 to 2010 achieved incomparable things as a Berlin platform for the production
presentation and documentation of music. Based on many conversations from over thirty years
with key protagonists such as Peter Brötzmann or Jost Gebers Markus Müller tells the success
story of a musicians' initiative that emerged in the context of the 1968 ideas of
self-organization and self-determination and worked successfully in an international network
for over 40 years. Thematic focal points include formats developed by the FMP such as the Total
Music Meeting and the Workshop Freie Musik the production of recordings relations with GDR
musicians FMP and women the internationally groundbreaking collaboration with Cecil Taylor
(to which a text by Diedrich Diederichsen is also dedicated) as well as FMP and its
interdisciplinary border crossings. In doing so the book builds on the major FMP exhibitions
in Munich and Berlin curated by Müller but in many aspects goes far beyond them. Thanks to
unrestricted access to the FMP-Publishing Archive in Borken countless first-published
documents and photographs from the history of the FMP can be found. The 400-page large-format
book designed by Double Standards has more than 300 illustrations and presents the FMP as
West Berlin's most important cultural and cultural-political contribution to the 20th century.
