RELEASES

PYROLATOR

Inland. CD, vinyl (180g), download. Out Mar 9, 2012

Pyrolator is the co-founder of the legendary German label and publisher Ata Tak, was a member of various seminal post-punk bands such as D.A.F. and Der Plan and released solo albums under his artist name from 1979 onwards until today. His debut album "Inland" from 1979 features cold, urbane, disconcerting synthesizer sounds and aural collages, imbued with the post-punk/industrial zeitgeist as the seventies segued into the eighties. Yet sounding so fresh, it might have been recorded today. This reissue contains 6 bonus tracks.

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PYROLATOR

Ausland. CD, vinyl (180g), download. Out Mar 9, 2012

Pyrolator is the co-founder of the legendary German label and publisher Ata Tak, was a member of various seminal post-punk bands such as D.A.F. and Der Plan and released solo albums under his artist name from 1979 onwards until today. "Ausland" has been released 1981 and is an extremely diverse, avant-garde pop album, mixing exotica, bossa nova, disco and spoken word vocals with synthesizer pop, new wave and industrial sounds. The reissue contains 8 bonus tracks.

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QLUSTER

Antworten. CD, vinyl (180g), download. Out Feb 24, 2012

"Antworten" is an early Qluster statement. It has been recorded before the two other albums of the Qluster trilogy "Fragen/Rufen/Antworten". Seldom has a musical duo been so united in heart and soul as Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Onnen Bock on that January evening 2007, when they recorded their improvised nocturnes on two Steinway grand pianos in the Berliner Philharmonie. Completely unplugged and utterly relaxed, Roedelius and Bock tossed musical ideas back and forth without pause, occasionally adding in the delicate tone of a distant singing bowl.

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39 CLOCKS

Subnarcotic. CD, download. Out Mar 2nd, 2012

Second album by the legendary Hanover duo, that was notorious for transgressing every rule in the music business book. Systematically. And with style. The 39 Clocks invented the Original Psycho Beat: futuristic, hypnotic 60s psychedelia with a beatbox deferred to the early 80s. "Subnarcotic" from 1982 is the pivotal work in the band's history. The reissue is mastered from the original tapes (in better sound quality than the original vinyl), and includes a previously unreleased bonus track

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ULRICH SCHNAUSS & MARK PETERS

Underrated Silence. CD, vinyl (180g), download. Out Feb 3rd, 2012

Ulrich Schnauss, master of shoegazer indietronica, and Mark Peters, bass player, guitarist and songwriter in the British band Engineers, present their first collaboration: They have crafted music which is enchanting in the truest sense of the word, shimmering sounds, floating echoes, rhythmically reverberant chords which wrap themselves around the listener, lifting him into a state of suspension and carrying him gently away.

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ANDREAS DORAU (DIE DORAUS UND DIE MARINAS)

Blumen und Narzissen. CD, vinyl (180g), download. Out Jan 27th, 2012

Andreas Dorau, born 1964, is a marvellous pop musician, equipped with the choicest humour and the gift of creating wonderful melodies. Aged 16, he wrote the huge hit "Fred vom Jupiter" and has been championed erroniously as representing German New Wave (NDW) ever since. "Blumen und Narzissen" (1981) is Dorau's first LP: an independent product and an accordingly unpolished production. "Fred vom Jupiter" is just one of many good-tempered and infectious pop hits included.

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ANDREAS DORAU (DIE DORAUS UND DIE MARINAS)

Die Doraus und Marinas geben offenherzige Antworten auf brennende Fragen.
CD, vinyl (180g), download. Out Jan 27th, 2012

On his sophomore LP in 1983, Andreas Dorau carries on where he left off with "Blumen und Narzissen" (see above): one pop hit follows another in quick succession. Only this time the songs are professionally produced and radio-friendly.

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MOEBIUS + RENZIEHAUSEN

Ersatz. CD, vinyl (180g), download. Out Feb 17, 2012

Dieter Moebius is one of the most important protagonists of avant-garde electronic music in Germany. Alongside his bands Cluster and Harmonia he participated in numerous collaborations (e.g. with Brian Eno, Mani Neumeier/Guru Guru and Conny Plank). Karl Renziehausen, visual artist and constructor of sound sculptures, was a fringe member of the Forst/Weser Uplands creative community (home to Moebius, Rother, Roedelius et al). His profound understanding of computers motivated Moebius to enter into a collaboration with him. The music: surrealist, minimal / experimental electronics. "Adventures in sound, a world brought to life by the most remarkable characters and atmospheres." (Asmus Tietchens)

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MOEBIUS + RENZIEHAUSEN

Ersatz II. CD, vinyl (180g), download. Out Feb 17, 2012

Dieter Moebius is one of the most important protagonists of avant-garde electronic music in Germany. Alongside his bands Kluster/Cluster and Harmonia, he participated in numerous collaborations (with the likes of Brian Eno and Mani Neumeier/Guru Guru). Karl Renziehausen, visual artist and constructor of sound sculptures, was a fringe member of the Forst/Weser Uplands creative community (home to Moebius, Rother, Roedelius et al). His profound understanding of computers motivated Moebius to enter into a collaboration with him. The music: surrealist, minimal / experimental electronics. "Adventures in sound, a world brought to life by the most remarkable characters and atmospheres." (Asmus Tietchens)

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PYROLATOR

Neuland. CD, vinyl (180g), download. Out now

Pyrolator (Kurt Dahlke, co-founder of the Ata Tak record label and publishing company, member of Fehlfarben, D.A.F., Burkina Electric, Bombay 1, A Certain Frank) is back, after a hiatus of 24 years! And he delivers pure electronic club music gold: warm, elegant, hypnotic dub techno house with some shoegazer sounds now and then. The album has been preceded by two two track 12 inch tasters, each in shiny coloured vinyl (yellow/blue).

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LIKE A STUNTMAN

YOY. CD, vinyl (180g), download. Out now

Their first release on Bureau B ("Original Bedouin Culture") was highly acclaimed by the critics ("krautrock for the post Radiohead generation") and was "record of the week" in several radio shows. The band had raised the bar to dizzying heights on their first album – with "YOY" they have risen even higher. A truly unique sophisticated sonic adventure!

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QLUSTER

Rufen. CD, vinyl (180g), download. Out Oct 28th, 2011

"Rufen" is the second instalment in a trilogy of Qluster music, following on from the "Fragen" studio album. In four impressive live recordings, Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Onnen Bock unfold aural panoramas which can only be described, in the truest sense of the word, as fantastic.

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ROEDELIUS/SCHNEIDER

Stunden. CD, vinyl (180g), download. Out now

Hans-Joachim Roedelius, legendary figure in kraut rock, part of the seminal bands Cluster and Harmonia, and Stefan Schneider, founding member of the neo kraut rock band Kreidler (1994 – 1999), part of the trio To Rococo Rot and releasing music with his solo project Mapstation, present the recordings of their first collaboration. In twelve miniatures, played with piano and electronics, they unfold images that come across poetically, glorifying tranquility.

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ROEDELIUS

Plays Piano (Live in London). CD, vinyl (180g), download. Out Feb 3rd, 2012

Whilst staying with Brian Eno in 1985, Roedelius composed a wealth of new material on his friend's two grand pianos and presented it to the public at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London. For Roedelius, this evening remains one of the highlights of his career. "People were kneeling down before me in gratitude and happiness", he recalls. Anyone who listens to these breathtakingly beautiful piano fantasies will understand why. – – – This music has never been released before!

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TARWATER

Inside The Ships. CD, vinyl (180g), download.

"Inside The Ships" is the latest and the eleventh studio album by Bernd Jestram and Ronald Lippok. The Berlin-based indietronics/neo krautrock duo has existed since 1995. So far, they have released ten regular studio albums, collaborated with various artists (including Piano Magic, Tuxedomoon, B. Fleischmann) and produced music for numerous films and theater pieces. Lippok has also played in the band To Rococo Rot since 1995.

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ROEDELIUS

Wasser im Wind. CD, vinyl (180g), download. Out now

Of all the Roedelius solo releases, this is the one which most closely resembles the work of Cluster. "Wasser im Wind", originally released 1982, sees Roedelius use a wide variety of musical and sonic ingredients hitherto associated with Cluster, almost as if he sought to erect a monument to the group. The reissue comes with a slightly modified artwork.

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SØLYST

Sølyst. CD, download, LP (+ download code).

Kreidler drummer Thomas Klein presents his first solo album. Like Kreidler SØLYST also unites analogue drums and electronically generated patterns. Klein is a musical hypnotist, taking aim at rhythmic ecstasy with minimal, yet highly effective means. SØLYST's darkly pulsating aural cosmos envelops the listener and holds him fast as a fantastic voyage commences. Afrobeat, minimal music, Krautrock, dub, cosmic – a genre to encompass these influences has yet to be invented, so Tribal Dub Krautrock is perhaps the most fitting description.

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HANS NIESWANDT

Hans Is Playing House. CD, 2LP (plus download code), download.

Hans Nieswandt – the Jack of Clubs around the world – has completed countless remixes throughout his life. Our CD/LP "Hans Is Playing House" is the first collection of remixes that he has done for his favorite artists, compiled and annotated by himself. The album contains remixes of Knarf Rellöm Trinity, Eric D. Clark, Jens Friebe, Zimmermänner, Monochrom, Die Zukunft, Werle & Stankowski, JaKönigJa, Universal Gonzalez, Eisen, Barbara Morgenstern, Mittekill, Decomposed Subsonic, Festland, (vinyl only:) Planetakis.

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PYROLATOR

Neuland2. 12" Maxi (blue vinyl).

Pyrolator (Kurt Dahlke, co-founder of the Ata Tak record label and publishing company, member of Fehlfarben, Burkina Electric, Bombay 1, A Certain Frank) is back, after a hiatus of 24 years! And he delivers pure electronic club music gold. The album will go on sale in October, preceded by a second taster in the form of a blue 12 inch vinyl.

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HANS-JOACHIM ROEDELIUS

Wie das Wispern des Windes / Like The Whispering Of The Wind. CD, vinyl (180g), download.

If we can agree on 1969 as the year of Cluster's inception, then Roedelius needed a good 17 years to discover the aural qualities and musical beauty of the grand piano for his own compositions. Rarely has the title of a Roedelius album so poetically and yet so accurately described its content. On "Like The Whispering Of The Wind" from 1986 Roedelius expands his Études towards amorphousness, then suddenly a disarmingly familiar melody appears, from a completely different source perhaps (Harmonia? Cluster?). Released on CD for the first time!

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Music samples: Und nichts zu suchen/And Searching For Nothing / Bergan/Uphill / Brise/Breeze / Das Eis bricht/Breaking Ice
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PYROLATOR

Neuland1. 12" Maxi (yellow vinyl)

Pyrolator (Kurt Dahlke, co-founder of the Ata Tak record label and publishing company, member of Fehlfarben, Burkina Electric, Bombay 1, A Certain Frank) is back, after a hiatus of 24 years! And he delivers pure electronic club music gold. The album will go on sale in October, preceded by an initial taster in the form of a lurid, yellow 12 inch vinyl, on June 24th.

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Music samples: Am Ufer / Myrtle Knickerbocker
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HANS-JOACHIM ROEDELIUS

Piano Piano. CD, vinyl (180g), download.

"Piano Piano" is a very soft, quiet album – meandering fantasies and improvisations on the grand piano. Dreamlike and stylistically self-assured. Roedelius assumes the role of a fairytale character with his piano music, transported to a strange, fantastical landscape where, filled with awe and amazement, he tries to get his bearings. What he sees, feels and senses here is not always of this world. CD and download include three bonus tracks!

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Music samples: Leicht gemacht / Gut so / Die Ernte reift / Die Gunst der Stunde
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YOU

Electric Day. CD, vinyl (180g), download

Spherical, hypnotic sequencers, synthesizers, drums and guitar – that is the sound of the so called Berlin School of electronic music: Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze et al. A hitherto less celebrated, yet outstanding exponent of the Berlin School was the Krefeld combo YOU. Udo Hanten and Albin Meskes teamed up with another iconic figure of electronic music, Harald Grosskopf (drummer for Ashra, Klaus Schulze), to issue their fantastic debut album 1979. Definitely worth to be rediscovered! CD and download include four bonus tracks!

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YOU

Time Code. CD, vinyl (180g), download.

Four years after releasing their debut (see above) YOU delivered the sophomore LP, entitled "Time Code". Reduced to a duo, YOU largely remained faithful to their style, but expanded upon it. Down tempo and faster numbers alternate and sugar sweet melodies are followed by expanses of ominously dark or crystal clear synthesizers. The album perfectly illustrates the transition of electronic music from the 1970s to the 1980s. Sequencer patterns owe much to the legacy of the Berlin School, whilst the synthesizer and drum computer sounds heralded the advent of the new decade. CD and download include two bonus tracks!

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KREIDLER

TANK. CD, vinyl (180g), download.

The unique postrock/neo-krautrock quartet KREIDLER from Düsseldorf and Berlin have recorded a new album. "TANK" sees Kreidler go back to their roots: pattern-oriented rock music, analogue/electronic and repetitious, yet elegant and distinguished – Kreidler have refined their unique style still further, and are getting better with every album. "TANK" was recorded in the Electric Avenue Studio, with producer Tobias Levin creating a stunning sound that gets as close to Kreidler's live energy as it can.

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Music samples: Jaguar / Kremlin rules / New Earth
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QLUSTER

Fragen. CD, vinyl (180g) plus download code, download

Kluster – Cluster – and now Qluster. "Fragen" documents the extraordinary shedding of skin of one of the most important German electronic groups. Hans-Joachim Roedelius was there from the beginning, first as a trio with Conrad Schnitzler and Dieter Moebius (Kluster), from 1971 on as a duo with Dieter Moebius (Cluster), and since 2010 as a duo with with Onnen Bock (Qluster). Bock (born 1973) and Roedelius have been meeting up to explore new musical directions together since 2007. "Fragen" is the first part of an exceptional trilogy, a grandiose new beginning, backed up by forty years of tradition.

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HANS-JOACHIM ROEDELIUS

Momenti Felici. CD, vinyl (180g), download.

Since the early eighties, Roedelius had more or less dispensed with electronics, focussing increasingly on the grand piano. He also collaborated with various combinations of musicians to create a new kind of music, vastly different to Cluster and Harmonia aesthetics. "Momenti Felici" (first released in 1987 on Venture) is one of the finest examples hereof: an enthusiastic Roedelius allowed new impressions and discoveries to flow virtually unfiltered into his music. Includes three previously unreleased tracks!

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Music samples: Aufgewacht / Capriccio / Im Frühtau / Leicht zu Fuss
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MANI NEUMEIER & KAWABATA MAKOTO

Samurai Blues. CD

Mani Neumeier (drums) is the founder and head of the legendary Krautrock combo Guru Guru. Kawabata Makoto is the founder, guitarist and mastermind of the Japanese psychedelic rock collective Acid Mothers Temple. These two true masters of their craft have recorded some stunning psychedelic improvisations. Tempestuous guitars and thundering drums demonstrate just what is possible in acid rock in 2011. Don't miss it!

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Music samples: Mushi / Samurai Blues / Another Romance
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FAUST

something dirty. CD, vinyl (180g), download.

The living Krautrock legend Faust, around for over 40 years now, have recorded a new album! Jean-Hervé Peron, Zappi W. Diermaier (both founding members), James Johnston (Gallon Drunk, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds), and Geraldine Swayne (...Bender) have come up with another archetypical Faust album: inspiring, innovative, unpredictable, crossing boundaries, anarchic – Faustian! "something dirty" is a definitive milestone in the long history of this world-famous musical institution from Hamburg.

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Music samples: Tell The Bitch To Go Home / Herbststimmung / Lost The Signal / Pythagoras
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HANS-JOACHIM ROEDELIUS

Gift of the Moment / Geschenk des Augenblicks. CD, vinyl (180g), download.

On "Gift Of The Moment / Geschenk des Augenblicks" Roedelius turns his back on electronic music. The album features romantic, in some cases melancholy pieces for piano, synthesizer, cello, violin, guitar. It was first released in 1984 and was Roedelius' most commercially successful album to date. Liner notes by Asmus Tietchens. First reissue ever!

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Music samples: Adieu Quichotte / Roots Of Joy / Wurzeln des Glücks / Time Regained / Gefundene Zeit / To Be Free Of Yearning / Sehnsucht ich will dich lassen
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CLUSTER

Cluster 71. CD, vinyl (180g), download.

According to "The Wire", the British bible of musical excellence, Cluster 71 is one of the "One Hundred Records That Set The World On Fire". Very few albums from Germany can lay claim to this honour. The album is a monster: Cluster's debut work from the year 1971 (actually just called Cluster) contains a mere three tracks (untitled) and is quite an ordeal for untrained ears – back then, at least. Yet the album pointed the way forward like no other electronic opus. First reissue with original Philips running order!

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Music samples: 7:42 / 15:43 / 21:32
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ROEDELIUS

Selbstportrait. CD, vinyl (180g), download.

Alongside his ongoing work with Cluster and Harmonia, Hans-Joachim Roedelius amassed an almost incalculable number of musical notations during his time in the idyllic Weser Uplands. Fleeting sketches, spontaneous improvisations, implied miniatures, rough compositions – Roedelius recorded virtually every idea he came up with outside the studio sessions on his Revox A77 reel to reel; with the basic intention of capturing his moments of inspiration, he simply let the tape run as he played around on the Farfisa organ. Sound quality was not his prime concern, as he was not as yet entertaining any notion of releasing the results. First 1:1 reissue ever!

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Music samples: Herold / Fabelwein / Kamee / Prinzregent
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ROEDELIUS

Selbstportrait II. CD, vinyl (180g), download

With "Selbstportrait I" (see above) Roedelius gave unequivocal confirmation that he no longer was treading the hitherto common paths of electronic music. "Selbstportrait II" corroborated the findings: for Roedelius, electronics would no longer be a means of creating abstract, noise-like music in the future, nor of generating utopian, mechanical rhythmic structures. His own utopia was quite a different place, more in keeping with his own personality and view of the world. Hence both self-portraits, in particular "Selbstportrait II", are programmatic. This album has never been released completely before! Includes five tracks never released on CD!

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Music samples: Alle Jahre wieder / Grundlsee / Kichererbsen / Aufbruch
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GURUMANIAX

Psy Valley Hill. CD, vinyl (180g), download

Just like in the good old days of Guru Guru! Mani Neumeier (founder and head of Guru Guru, drums), Ax Genrich (Guru Guru guitarist 1970–1975) and Guy Segers (founder and head of the belgian avantgarde rock band Univers Zero, bass) explore the hills and valleys of psychedelic/avantgarde rock. Blows your head away!

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Music samples: Drumoroto / Voodoo Touch / For Uli T. / Spaceship Memory
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MOEBIUS + BEERBOHM

Strange Music. CD, vinyl (180g), download

Dieter Moebius is one of the most important protagonists of avant-garde electronic music in Germany (He is/was part of Cluster and Harmonia). He recorded two albums with the bassist Gerd Beerbohm in 1982 and 1983 – electronic avant-garde pop in its most rigorous form. Beerbohm turned out to be the perfect musical foil for Moebius, affording him free rein, in the very best sense of the expression, to bring his concept of pop music to life. Mastered from original tapes, liner notes by Asmus Tietchens.

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Music samples: Ying Yang / Clark's Shiraz / Glucose / Subito
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MOEBIUS+BEERBOHM

Double Cut. CD, vinyl (180g), download

The second album by Dieter Moebius and bassist Gerd Beerbohm was released 1984. It bore the same distinctive hallmarks as its predecessor, but this time around, the two musicians had simplified matters significantly. This was not simplification due to a lack of inspiration, however, but a masterful concentration on what really counts in pop music: rhythm. Mastered from original tapes, liner notes by Asmus Tietchens.

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Music samples: Minimotion / Narkose / Doppelschnitt / Hydrogen
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MOEBIUS

Blue Moon. Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. CD, vinyl (180g), download.

"Blue Moon" was released at a time when electronically created pop music was no longer perceived as exotic. It was new music, free of the ballast of the 1970s, minimalist and uncluttered. Pioneer of electronic avantgarde music Dieter Moebius, a constant "simplifier" in the Cluster/Harmonia family, made a particular virtue of this simplicity on "Blue Moon", resulting in eleven wonderfully measured miniatures, rhythmic, harmonic textures of exceptional aural transparency. Mastered from original tapes, liner notes by Asmus Tietchens. File under: Krautronic

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Music samples: Am See / Kriminelle Energie / Ablenkung / Falsche Ruhe
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ROEDELIUS

Lustwandel. CD, vinyl (180g), download

This album saw Hans-Joachim Roedelius fulfil a dream he had long since cherished. A series of chamber music pieces, with grand piano solos taking centre stage in some places, archaised percussion patterns in others. "Lustwandel" represents a logical progression, following on from Jardin au fou (rereleased on Bureau B in 2009), recorded in Peter Baumann's Paragon studios (Tangerine Dream).

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Music samples: Vom Fliegen / Legende / Langer Atem / Draußen vorbei
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ROEDELIUS

The Diary Of The Unforgotten/Selbstportrait VI. CD, vinyl (180g), download

A beautiful collection of recordings from 1972 to 1978, first released in 1990 (with different artwork). "Selbstportrait VI" contains compositions Roedelius did in addition to his work with Cluster, Harmonia and Brian Eno in the legendary Forst years. In the booklet Roedelius looks back on this personal and artistical important period of his life. He explains the magic of the idyllic place and its influence on his music.

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Music samples: Frohgemut / Hommage à Forst / Schöner Abend / Ausgewählt
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MOEBIUS & PLANK

Rastakraut Pasta. CD, vinyl (180g), download

Dieter Moebius (one of the most important protagonists of avant-garde electronic music in Germany, part of Harmonia and Cluster) and Conny Plank (the most legendary sound engineer of the German Underground) made a congenial pair as musicians. An enigmatic form of pop music came into being on "Rastakraut Pasta", a breakneck, elegant mix of diverse elements: a touch of Krautrock, some avant-garde pop, new German electronica, even sporadic echoes of reggae. Recorded in in Conny's studio in 1980; guest musician: Holger Czukay (Can)

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Music samples: Missi Cacadou / News / Two Oldtimers / Feedback 66
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MOEBIUS & PLANK

Material. CD, vinyl (180g), download

On their second album (recorded 1981), Moebius and Plank ventured far, far away from the double coordinates of the Harmonia world and pop music cosmos. "Material" saw them generate a form of genre-busting electronic music, more radical than anything one might have expected to come out of Germany, not even from the likes of Cluster or Harmonia.

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Music samples: Tollkühn / Nordöstliches Gefühl / Osmo-Fantor / Conditionierer
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NINCA LEECE

There Is No One Else When I Lay Down And Dream. CD, vinyl, download

Ninca is a singer, a songwriter, a producer, and a musician at the same time. And she explores the facets of electronic pop music in all their variations. Her music mixes a resolute pop approach to an experimental sound process witch glitch, clicks & cuts, dreamlike melodies and fairy elements, using voices, synthesizing, sound design, layerings, acoustic instruments along with electronic sounds/devices and field recordings. She simply calls it pop électronique. It's magnifique!

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Music samples: Tourist / Funny Symphony / Lovesong / Tattoo / Top Of The World

ROEDELIUS

Wenn der Südwind weht/Selbstportrait IV. CD, vinyl (180g), download

"Where on earth does Roedelius find such a beautiful array of notes?", Asmus Tietchens wonders in the liner notes to this exquisit reissue. We don't know the answer but we do know that these easy and quiet analog-electronic music miniatures from 1981 will enchant you. It was Roedelius' seventh solo effort and is also known under the title "Selbstportrait IV"

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Music samples: Auf leisen Sohlen / Sonnengeflecht / Wenn der Südwind weht / Mein Freund Farouk

MOEBIUS

Tonspuren. CD, vinyl (180g), download

Dieter Moebius is one of the most important protagonists of avant-garde electronic music in Germany (He is/was part of Cluster and Harmonia). "Tonspuren" dates back to 1983 and was his first solo album. It features meticulously fabricated pearls of electronic music with a sense of pop melody.

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Music samples: Etwas / Rattenwiesel / Contramino / Hasenheide

PHANTOM BAND

Phantom Band. CD, vinyl (180g), download

The first band of Can drummer Jaki Liebezeit after Can split up in 1979. The first line-up (1980) included top musicians such as Helmut Zerlett (e.g. Dunkelziffer, Unknown Cases), Rosko Gee (Traffic, Can), Dominik von Senger (e.g. Damo Suzuki Band, Dunkelziffer), Olek Gelba, and Holger Czukay (Can) as guest musician. The Phantom Band mixes Can-style monotonic polyrhythms with afrobeat, funk, jazz, disco, reggae, and dub. A nearly forgotten exciting musical experience!

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Music samples: I'm The One / Latest News / Absolutely Straight / For M.

PHANTOM BAND

Freedom Of Speech. CD, vinyl (180g), download

The second album of the Phantom Band is quite different to the predecessor. The line-up features the spoken word performer Sheldon Ancel on the microphone instead of bass player Rosko Gee. Whilst the debut album revealed many Caribbean or African influences and a generally positive frame of mind, "Freedom of Speech" is a somewhat darker avant-garde rock manifesto, interspersed with individual dub or reggae pieces. All they have in common are Jaki Liebezeit's inimitable monotone polyrhythmic drumming and the Phantom Band's predilection for hypnotic (Jamaican) grooves.

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Music samples: Dream Machine / Brain Police / Gravity / Experiments

HEARTS NO STATIC

Motif. CD, download

Hearts No Static are an instrumental trio from Stockholm, Sweden. Their majestic Drone/Kraut/Post Rock/Ambient music mixture evokes pictures of deep forests, dark seas, and stirring coastal scenery. Every now and then a wall of sound shakes you up – and then there's beautiful silence again. And within lies a special, majestic melancholy. Don't miss this unique "painting with sound" experience

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Music samples: Lowlands / HoveringPt.1 / Fashion Death / Motif / Wastelands

LIKE A STUNTMAN

Original Bedouin Culture. CD, vinyl, download

"You can't help but feel cool listening to Like A Stuntman." Thus wrote Boomkat.com. Check it out for yourself: These four young Germans play eccentric weird folk electro-kraut-melodic indie rock like you never heard before.

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Music samples: On Repetition We Are / No Tundra No Sun / Fake Beards/Our Hands Sweat / Wake Up William Blake

DIN A TESTBILD

Programm 6. CD, vinyl, download

30 years after releasing their debut the electronic avantgarde musicians from Berlin deliver their new dark industrial dance music monster! Driving bass, hypnotic grooves, dark sounds. Electroclash, contemporary EBM. Wow!

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Music samples: Neu Berlin / Grasshopper / Get Started / Under My Skin

CLUSTER & ENO

Cluster & Eno. CD, vinyl (180g), download

The first of two milestones in ambient music recorded by Germany's legendary electronic pioneers Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius together with Britains music eccentric Brian Eno. This album from 1977 is the first ever ambient music production on German soil.

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Music samples: Die Bunge / Für Luise / Ho Renomo / Schöne Hände

ENO MOEBIUS ROEDELIUS

After The Heat. CD, vinyl, download (180g).

Whilst "Cluster & Eno" (see above) bears the hallmark of a Cluster composition guided by Eno's ambient concept, "After the Heat" (1978) is more of an Eno album bearing stylistic characteristics of Cluster music. Both albums, however, gazed far ahead into the future.

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Music samples: Shade / Belldog / Base & Apex / Oil

MOEBIUS PLANK NEUMEIER

Zero Set. CD, vinyl (180g), download

"Zero Set" is three masterminds of Krautrock together on one album. Dieter Moebius (Cluster, Harmonia), Mani Neumeier (Guru Guru), and ledendary sound engineer Conny Plank (too many projects to name them) recorded this dark electronic and "motorik" piece in 1982. This great album is a must in every Krautrock record collection.

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Music samples: Speed Display / Pitch Control / Load / All Repro

CLUSTER

Sowiesoso. CD, vinyl (180g), download

"Sowiesoso" follows on from Cluster's most highly acclaimed album "Zuckerzeit" and represents the utopian vision of Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius: relaxed, minimal electronic/acoustic gems – Cluster in their purest form.

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Music samples: Sowiesoso / Zum Wohl / Es war einmal / Halwa

CLUSTER

Curiosum. CD, vinyl (180g), download

The sixth album of the two German electronic/ambient music legends as a duo, recorded in 1981, was their last release for the next nine years. On "Curiosum" they take an electronic tour de force, lean and focussed, a contrast to the brash zeitgeist of punk and German new wave (NDW).

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Music samples: Oh Odessa / Tristan in der Bar / Helle Melange / Ufer

MICHAEL ROTHER

Flammende Herzen / Karussell. 7" Vinyl.

Previously a member of the seminal Kraftwerk, NEU! and Harmonia, Michael Rother's solo career began with this single in 1977. The instrumental track is the ultimate feel-good anthem of the 1970s – majestic harmonies woven from Rother's unique guitar style. On the drums: Jaki Liebezeit (Can), at the mixing desk: Conny Plank. On vinyl 7" single only!

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Music samples: A: Flammende Herzen / B: Karussell

FEHLFARBEN

Es geht voran / Feuer an Bord. 7" Vinyl.

Fehlfarben were the first commercially successful band of the German Postpunk scene. Initially the band never wanted "Es geht voran" to be included on their debut album "Monarchie und Alltag". In fact, it turned out to be their biggest commercial hit by some distance. It can also lay claim to the rare achievement of appearing regularly on NDW (German New Wave) compilations and proving equally popular in the underground scene. The B side is an ultra rare single version. On vinyl 7" single only!

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Music samples: A: Es geht voran / B: Feuer an Bord

CAMOUFLAGE

Spice Crackers + Bonus. 2 CDs, download

This 2 CD reissue of the 1995 album ist the most atypical work of the world-reknowned German electropop band. Especially the bonus CD (11 tracks previously unreleased) unveils the hypnotic, psychedelic talent of Camouflage. "Spice Crackers" reflect the finest in 90's electronics (dub techno, downbeat, electronica, intelligent dance music, ambient), evoking memories of the golden age of German electronic creativity, the 1970s.

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Music samples: Kraft / X-Ray / Liberation (Bonus) / Spacetrain (Bonus)

THE 39 CLOCKS

Pain It Dark. CD, download

The 39 Clocks were "the best German band of the eighties" (German pop scholar Diedrich Diederichsen). The Hanoverian duo cultivated a heavy accent and invented the Original Psycho Beat: futuristic, hypnotic 60s psychedelia with a beatbox deferred to the early 80s. "Pain It Dark" was their 1981 debut album. The reissue contains one previously unreleased track.

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Music samples: Shake The Hippie / Psycho Beat / DNS / Stupid Art

HANS-JOACHIM ROEDELIUS

Durch die Wüste. CD, vinyl, download

After being part of several bands (e. g. Cluster, Harmonia) Hans-Joachim Roedelius recorded his first solo LP in 1978: less electronic, more avantgarde pop music - yet 100 percent Roedelius.

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Music samples: Durch die Wüste / Regenmacher / Glaubersalz / Johanneslust

RIECHMANN

Wunderbar. CD, vinyl, download

Bureau B unearthed an absolute gem of German electronic music from 1978 influenced by Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk and NEU! Sequencer patterns meet synthesizer layers and simple, spherical melodies. Really "wunderbar"!

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Music samples: Weltweit / Himmelblau / Wunderbar / Silberland

CLUSTER

Großes Wasser. CD, vinyl, download

Bureau B starts a large series of reissues licensed from the german cult label SKY records. The first one is this excellent 1979 album of Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius, two key figures of German electronic and ambient music. Truly great stuff!

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Music samples: Isodea / Grosses Wasser / Avanti / Breitengrad

ROEDELIUS

Jardin au Fou. CD, vinyl, download

The most remarkable album by one of the key figures in the birth of Krautrock, synthesizer pop and ambient music, Hans-Joachim Roedelius (Cluster, Harmonia). "Jardin au Fou" radiates pure beauty, nearly no sequencer or rhythm machine was being used.

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Music samples: Gloria Dolores / Fou Fou / Toujours / Etoiles

FAUST

C'est com...com...compliqué. CD, vinyl, download

Bureau B proudly presents: a brand new album of the krautrock institution, revered worldwide as pioneers of avant-garde rock music. Hypnotic, dadaistic, powerful, gentle, melodic, earthy, etheral. This is the sound of Faust.

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Music samples: Accroché à tes levres / Bonjour Gioacchino / Kundali Tremolos / C'est com...com...compliqué

PALAIS SCHAUMBURG

Wir bauen eine neue Stadt / Madonna. 7" Vinyl

Die international sehr erfolgreiche Single der Band um Holger Hiller und Thomas Fehlmann ist ein brillantes Beispiel für deren einzigartige Musikform aus kaltem, minimalistischem Elektro-Funk mit Dada-Texten.

The internationally most successful single of Holger Hillers and Thomas Fehlmanns early 80's avantgarde Pop-Band. David Cunningham produced this unique cold minimalistic elektro-funk combined with dadaesque lyrics.

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HARMONIA

De Luxe (immer wieder) / Monza (rauf und runter). 7" Vinyl

Zuckersüße Synthesizermelodien, hypnotischer, monotoner Beat - "Immer wieder rauf und runter" singen Michael Rother (Neu!), Hans-Joachim Roedelius (Cluster) und Dieter Moebius (Cluster) auf ihrer einzigen Single.

The only Harmonia 7" single that ever has been released. The sweet hypnotic melodies and the monotonous beats of M. Rother, H.-J. Roedelius and D. Moebius and the repetitive lyrics make up this Krautrock/Electronica classic.

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LA DÜSSELDORF

Silver Cloud / La Düsseldorf. 7" Vinyl

Instrumental, typisch repetitiv und mit gedrosseltem Tempo - La Düsseldorfs erfolgreichste Single, vielleicht auch wegen der hysterischen Liebeserklärung an ihre Heimat Düsseldorf auf der B-Seite. Ein Klassiker!

The most successful single of La Düsseldorf (Klaus Dinger, Thomas Dinger, Hans Lampe) with an even better B side - a hysterical love declaration to their hometown Düsseldorf. A classic!

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LA DÜSSELDORF

Rheinita / Viva. 7" Vinyl

La Düsseldorf halten hier strikt an ihrem Silver-Cloud-Stil fest. Nachdem Klaus Dinger 2008 starb, wurde Rheinita zur heimlichen Gedenkhymne auf die beiden Dinger-Brüder.

La Düsseldorf sticks to their Silver Cloud style on this track. After the death of Klaus Dinger in 2008 the song became the secret remembrance hymn to the Dinger brothers.

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