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"Jimi Tenor has always been something of a Renaissance man On leaving his Finnish homeland for New York in the early 1990s, and later as he travelled through Europe, he quickly discovered what he calls his ikigai, his great joy in life: to record and produce music in DIY mode at home with the most rudimentary of means,... -
Serendipitously coinciding with the publication of a second book, Magnetizdat DDR, Bureau B now revisit the experimental electronic underground of the German Democratic Republic with two releases: Acht Gesänge der schwarzen Hunde (BB 387CD/LP), a collection of Jörg Thomasius productions spanning the years 1980 to 1990, and MEZ... -
Jörg Thomasius, otherwise known as Tomato, born in East Berlin in 1955, discovered progressive sounds in the early 1970s He was increasingly drawn towards the electronic signals emanating from West Berlin, so close and yet so far away, carried on radio waves through the Iron Curtain and surfacing sporadically in eager record... -
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... -
Composer and conceptual artist Conrad Schnitzler (1937-2011) was one of the most influential figures of the electronic avant-garde in Germany In 1967/68, the Joseph Beuys student founded the Zodiak Free Arts Lab, which became a playground for Berlin subculture In addition to numerous solo releases Schnitzler was also involved in... -
Composer and conceptual artist Conrad Schnitzler (1937-2011) was one of the most influential figures of the electronic avant-garde in Germany In 1967/68, the Joseph Beuys student founded the Zodiak Free Arts Lab, which became a playground for Berlin subculture In addition to many other musical stations, bustling Schnitzler was a... -
Bureau B invite you on an expedition to Silberland, a singular span of spacetime created by Germany's sonic futurists of the seventies and eighties Embracing the early electronics and tape experiments of the sixties' avant-garde, these artists aimed to boldly go, eschewing small steps for giant leaps into a nebulous and novel... -
Breathtakingly 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... -
Richard Pinhas' album Iceland was first released in 1979 and is his third solo work, also the first after the split from Heldon This album seems like a long, inward-looking journey and is like a kind of counter-point to the expansive sci-fi worlds and the bombastic prog of Heldon; on Iceland you will find long, sublime tracks next... -
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... -
2022 restock 180 gram LP version Bureau B reissues the first Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft album, originally released in 1979 True DAF connoisseurs will, of course, be aware of the early phase of the Düsseldorf-Wuppertal combo But most fans of the subsequently world-famous duo may well be taken aback when confronted with... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
The 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... -
"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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Double LP version Do not adjust your sets Take a step back from the tracking This is the sound of Germany's musical youth let loose on cheap synths and pawnshop guitars A record of a disparate scene of squat pop-stars, art school upstarts and committed non-musicians who redefined German music in the first half of the 1980s By the... -
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"Outer-national dance discourses, that strive for no country and obey to no flag: when Düsseldorf based producer, Stefan Schwander creates music as Harmonious Thelonious, highly percussive rhythms, dissonances and melodic twists tango chatoyant virtuosic Since 2008 he releases music, that unites Detroit techno districts,... -
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Drummer, percussionist, producer, radio journalist and DJ, Niklas Wandt's musical path can be traced back to his childhood, signposted by jazz and psychedelia He has presented WDR 3's Jazz & World programme for a number of years, whilst a growing interest in electronic music has seen him perform live and record albums with... -
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... -
2021 restock 180 gram LP version Bureau B reissues Günter Schickert's album Überfällig, originally released in 1979 on Sky Records "No sooner had electronic music broken through in Germany, principally aligned in the two schools of Düsseldorf and Berlin, than Günter Schickert also began his first musical experiments Although... -
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"Barely pausing for breath after 1983's Colours And Soul, Dunkelziffer delivered In The Night the following year, their revolving line-up prompting an evolving sound Though the playful elements of their debut remained through a trio of sun-blushed dubbers, the album also housed the ensemble's most dense, intense and serious tracks... -
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For the 40th anniversary of this influential album from Hamburg-based band Palais Schaumburg Bureau B are releasing a limited LP version: 500 copies, numbered, red vinyl, and with printed inner sleeve including all lyrics in German and English In 1980, two students met at the Hamburg Art Academy: Thomas Fehlmann, who appreciated... -
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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Double LP version "Jimi Tenor can look back on a career spanning almost 30 years, in which time he has released more than 20 albums on such renowned labels as Warp Records, Sähkö, and Kitty-Yo Pop artist prestige holds no sway over the Finnish composer and multi-instrumentalist Never resting on his laurels, he continues to hone... -
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... -
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"Martin Rev's fourth solo album See Me Ridin' was released on the New York label Reachout International Records (ROIR) in 1996 Received by the critics with amazement, it proved to be a watershed moment in his career Journalist Neil Cooper wrote at the time: 'When I first heard Rev's new record, I was taken aback Was he serious Was... -
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Two years have passed since Bureau B released the first Sowas Von Egal compilation (BB 310CD/LP, 2018) With the musical movement or genre known as NDW celebrating its 40th anniversary, what better time than now to launch an ambitious successor to the first sampler The beating heart of this endeavor is once again invigorated by the...
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