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Out of stockThere was a particular type of artist who could only have emerged in the legendary early 1970s Few musicians fit the bill better than Conrad Schnitzler Revolution, pop art and Fluxus created a climate which engendered unbridled artistic and social development Radical utopias, excessive experimentation with drugs, and ruthless (in...
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LP version Over the last ten years a strange mycelium was sprouting from the ground of Germany's sound topography, going widely unnoticed while creeping its way up through the corpse of the ubiquitous "neo-kraut", "diskurs-pop", and the like This is a small underground network of artists and projects with poetic, mysterious names...
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Originally released in 1978 on Sky Records, After The Heat was the second collaborative release by Brian Eno with Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius (Cluster) Produced once again by Conny Plank, After The Heat is a suite of micro-managed organic and electronic instrumentation that features recited and sung vocals by Eno on...
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"Taking inspiration from deep in the mediaeval mists of times long past, CV Vision comes riding over the hills like a knight to the rescue, and his new album Im Tal Der Stutzer is packed full of galloping drums, feudal prog riffs and poetic lyrics harking back to a golden age You might've caught CV Vision in Berlin, either on...
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Double LP version "In 1984, four years after the release of my first solo album Synthesist on Sky Records, I wanted to produce a new solo album At the time I was operating on the fifth floor of a former backyard factory on Graefe-Str in Berlin Kreuzberg with my Neue Deutsche Welle Band Lilli Berlin We'd turned the space into a...
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Originally part of 2021's Faust Box Set release commemorating the bands 50th anniversary Momentaufnahme I and II are now set for their own standalone release by popular demand This is for all those that missed out on the limited-edition box set release They collect together music recorded at the band's studio -- a converted...
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Originally part of 2021's Faust Box Set release commemorating the bands 50th anniversary Momentaufnahme I and II are now set for their own standalone release by popular demand This is for all those that missed out on the limited-edition box set release They collect together music recorded at the band's studio -- a converted...
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Out of stockWithout a doubt, To Rococo Rot are an exception within the German music landscape From 1995 until they broke up in 2014, the group around Robert Lippok, Ronald Lippok, and Stefan Schneider researched a unique sound between electronic music, ambient, post-melancholy, and the further development of a new, free music like krautrock...
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Out of stockOriginally released back in 1972 on collectible krautrock label, Brain, this is the second album from electronic music pioneers, Moebius and Roedelius Between them, they created an atmospheric, droning behemoth through the modulation of their arcane synthesizers An essential item to anyone who has an interest in the evolution of...
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Out of stockReissue, originally released in 2008 Hazy dream chronicles "A Martin Rev album is always liable to spring a surprise Think of the rough guitars which unexpectedly appeared on his 2003 release To Live instead of synthesizers Les Nymphes, which followed in 2008, saw Rev return to dream-laden melodic miniatures, but came from a...
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Reissue, originally released in 1973 There's something perversely fabulous about the thought of this warped masterwork wandering into 60,000 unsuspecting British homes in 1973 Faust's second-and-a-half album hit the shops to celebrate their signing to the nascent Virgin Records, who were looking to take advantage of the zeitgeist...
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After the overwhelming success of the 1971-1974 box set release, containing the first four studio albums and for the first time ever this lost "last" album recording, Punkt gets a deserved and necessary standalone release "The band called it 5½, fans referred to it as the 'Munich album' and for almost fifty years it's been the...
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Out of stockBreathtakingly beautiful piano fantasies from the year 1985 -- released for the very first time! In 1985, Hans-Joachim Roedelius was still perceived by the music community as an electronic artist Yet ever since acquiring his Bösendorfer grand piano in 1983, his interest had grown in the most royal of instruments: the piano While...
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According to The Wire, the British bible of musical excellence, Cluster 71is one of the "one hundred records that set the world on fire" Very few albums from Germany can lay claim to this honor Cluster 71 is a monster: the debut work from the year 1971 (actually just called Cluster) contains a mere three tracks (untitled) and is...
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LP version, on 180 gram vinyl This is the tenth solo album by German keyboardist Hans-Joachim Roedelius, originally released in 1984 on Editions EG On Geschenk Des Augenblicks - Gift Of The Moment, Roedelius broke away unequivocally from purely electronic music If Lustwandel (BB 055CD/LP) and Jardin Au Fou (BB 023CD/LP) had seen...
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Pressed on 180 gram vinyl "Apropos Cluster (1990) was released in Coralville, Iowa, in deepest provincial America Youthful enthusiast Russ Curry (sic) set up the Curious Music label on his own initiative to release this very album Emboldened by the spirit of the independent movement, he paid for manufacturing himself and took care...
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180 gram vinyl Bureau B reissues Cluster's 1994 album One Hour "Cluster's hiatus between Curiosum (BB 038CD/LP) and Apropos Cluster (BB 171CD/LP) in 1990 lasted for almost 10 years Roedelius and Moebius spent this time developing their individual musical characteristics in a series of solo albums and collaborations which they...
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LP version on 180 gram vinyl Bureau B presents Cluster's USA Live, a 1996 recording of Cluster's first tour of the USA This release consists of tracks from Purple Pyramid's 1997 CD First Encounter Tour 1996, reworked and reselected in collaboration with the musicians and presented on vinyl (for the first time) and on CD Includes...
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LP version on 180 gram vinyl After Curiosum (BB 038CD/LP, 1981), the last Cluster album to be released on Sky, Roedelius and Moebius turned their attention to solo work It was not until the early 1990s that Cluster returned to the electronic music stage with Apropos Cluster (BB 171CD/LP, 1990) and One Hour (BB 172CD/LP, 1994) The...
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Out of stockThe two authorized recordings presented on Konzerte 1972/1977 vividly conjure up the atmosphere, perhaps even the magic, of a Cluster performance back in the day One took place in 1977 during a science fiction festival in Metz (France) The other dates back to an earlier show in Hamburg's Fabrik venue Cluster played three gigs in...
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"Limited edition: white vinyl & adult colouring cover" Cluster's influence on the development of electronic music cannot be overstated The original trio of Conrad Schnitzler, Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius released two seminal albums as Kluster before Roedelius and Moebius replaced the 'K' with a 'C' and continued...
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Double-LP version The first live recording of Cluster (Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius), and their only collaboration with Austrian musician Joshi Farnbauer (drums and percussion), recorded in Vienna in 1980 A sonic throwback to their early years, reissued on CD Were one to be presented with two separate stacks of...
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LP version on 180 gram vinyl "The long overdue reissue of Selbstporträt III/Reise durch Arcadien closes a gap in the Roedelius oeuvre which his followers have long since had their eyes on Those who found the self-portrait series irresistible had to endure a lengthy, impatient wait for the Journey Through Arcadia As on the other...
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Pressed on 180 gram vinyl This is the first solo album by Dieter Moebius, recorded at Conny Plank's studio and originally released in 1983 on Sky Records By 1969 at the latest, Dieter Moebius was synonymous with the avant-garde electronic music scene in Germany He and Hans-Joachim Roedelius formed Cluster, a seminal...
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2021 restock 180 gram LP version This is the fourth solo album by German keyboardist Hans-Joachim Roedelius, originally released in 1980 on Sky Records With Selbstportrait, Roedelius gave unequivocal confirmation that he no longer was treading the hitherto common paths of electronic music Selbstportrait - Vol II corroborated the...
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Bureau B present a reissue of Hans Joachim Roedelius and Alexander Czjzek's Weites Land, originally released 1987 Vienna, the early 1980s Krautrock, electronic, and ambient pioneer Hans Joachim Roedelius, co-founder Cluster and Harmonia and saxophone free spirit Alexander Czjzek meet for the first time Their longstanding...
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180 gram LP version This is the fourth solo album by German keyboardist Hans-Joachim Roedelius, originally released in 1980 on Sky Records With Selbstportrait, Roedelius gave unequivocal confirmation that he no longer was treading the hitherto common paths of electronic music Selbstportrait - Vol II corroborated the findings: for...
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"Conrad Schnitzler is incredible I would dearly have loved to meet him, to have been present when he, Seidel and Baumann were working their magic at Paragon Studio Fortuitously, Wolfgang Seidel, co-author of these pieces, has opened up his archive of recordings to the Bureau B label He and Conrad Schnitzler spent many years...