BUREAU B

"In 2012 Dieter Moebius was invited to perform music to Fritz Lang's legendary silent film "Metropolis". For this purpose he produced pre-arranged tracks and samples to be treated with effects and combined during live improvisation according to the dramaturgical setting ...
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"Having completed his military service as a naval radio operator, Gunther Wüsthoff was in the midst of his German and fine art studies when he encountered Rudolf Sosna und Jean-Hervé Peron. It was May 1969 and each of them had a guitar so they decided to make music ...
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DEUTSCHE EXPERIMENTELLE POP-MUSIK 1980-86
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"Nachdem Bureau B seine Dunkelziffer Werkschau mit den Alben "Colours And Soul" und "In The Night" began, freuen wir uns mit "Songs For Everyone" auch das letzte Studioalbum der Band, das 1989 erschien wieder zugänglich zu machen. Ohne ihre einstige spirituelle Heimat ...
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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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""JaPlan" was produced for the Japanese market, based on a series of gigs for a department store chain. Featuring some previously released songs as well as songs from the double single "Golden Cheapos". "JaPlan" also includes rare instrumentals produced for their Tokyo ...
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"A ground-breaking pop album: Reissue of the second work from the Ata-Tak-founder Pyrolator, aka Kurt Dahlke, was co-founder of the legendary German label and music publisher Ata Tak. He was a member of several pioneering post-punk bands - DAF and The Plan - and has ...
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"Willkommen in der Welt von Dunkelziffer. Mit einem radikalen Ansatz in Bezug auf Klang, Stil und Gruppendynamik hat das Kölner Kollektiv von Musikern und Künstlern seinen experimentellen Weg durch die 1980er Jahre beschritten und eine alternative Version deutscher ...
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"Shrouded in myth, 'Save Your Software' is the long-lost album by Der Plan. Back in the mid-1980s, Moritz Reichelt, Kurt Dahlke (Pyrolator) and Frank Fenstermacher initiated the Fanuks project with the aim of making themselves immortal as Mensch-Maschinen or ...
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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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"Includes CD. Swallowing air and farting it out, that's the main life skill of the weatherfish. But what's best about him is his evocative German name: Schlammpeitziger. When German electronic artist Jo Zimmermann launched his solo career in the early 1990s, he chose to ...
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