The Ministry of Information and Culture runs its own Music Department, which seems rather more active than the radio station. It hosts four music ensembles: a regional group from Logar, a Sufi music group, a mixed eastern-western group, and an Afghan pop music group. My stay in Kabul coincided with the Goethe-Institut sending the electro-rock group Ata Tak from Dusseldorf to Kabul for six weeks. They brought with them highly sophisticated hard drive recording equipment, a less sophisticated 4-track recorder, new electric and bass guitars, amplifiers and a PA system. They spent their time training young Afghans in the use of the recording equipment, and in performance technique. There is no doubt that there is a tremendous interest on the part of some young Afghans in modern western popular music.