BUREAU B

"Flusch. Knirk. Finom! Seit 14. Juli 1981 erforschen Die Welttraumforscher den Traum der Welt, werden zu Kassettentätern, entdecken die Folklore des Weltalls, besuchen den Kontinent Binika und wundern sich über die Stadt Darktown. Bretzelbergpop und Spielzeuggewitter, ...
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"Rätselvernarrte Reisende die sie sind, Drillinge in kosmischem Auftrag, durchstöbern die Welttraumforscher die weiten Räume des Klanguniversums im Wohnzimmer und in den Sideria-Werkstätten. Alles, sagen sie, ist Forschung und finden die wundersame Wasserstadt und ...
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"Composer, radio dramatist and performance artist Frieder Butzmann began exploring experimental music in the late 1960s. One of the pioneers of German industrial music and a member of the Geniale Dilettanten movement, Butzmann has collaborated with artists such as ...
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" The final instalment (for now) in Bureau B's little series of classic Der Plan album reissues. That's Frank, Kurt, and Moritz right there on the cover, inside Harry Rosenberg's Hamburger Hafen Basar* -- the Plan's own version of the Style Council's Favourite Shop. You ...
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""Auf dem schwarzen Kanal" is one of the most outstanding, most sought-after releases in Conrad Schnitzler's extensive catalogue. It was the only Schnitzler record to appear on a major label and saw him flirting with the experimental new wave sound that was emerging in ...
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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." (label info)
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"Schlammpeitziger ist die Kunstfigur des Musikers, Zeichners und Performancekünstlers Jo Zimmermann. Bereits seit 1992 prägt er mit seinem surrealistischen Lo-Fi Krautronica und zahlreichen Veröffentlichungen bei A-Musik, Pingipung und Sonig den Sound of Cologne ...
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"Almost 40 years since they began, Faust are issuing a brand new studio album. Original members Jean-Hervé Peron and Werner "Zappi" Diermaier were joined in the Electric Avenue studio by Amaury Cambuzat (from the French post-rock combo Ulan Bator). Star indie producer ...
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"A 38 minutes exorcism, dionysac sexyness fueled with romanticism, made of mechanical incantations mixed with spectral vocals of forgotten imaginary tribes, words from a physicist (Incomprehensible Image), and mystical breathings... To remind you that music is demanding ...
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"The German pioneer of electronic music Conrad Schnitzler (1937-2011) amassed a vast archive of sounds for use in combination with each other in live performances. In 2011 the idea came up of con-structing new compositions, not remixes, from this material. The ...
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"One of Schnitzler's straightest works, Con delivers soft, poised minimalist synths and cosmic sequences gliding alongside tribalistic tam-tam rhythms. Another proof of his unfailing commitment to independence." (label info)
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