BUREAU B

REV, MARTIN - CLOUDS OF GLORY (LP)

"His second solo effort, was released on the French label New Rose in 1985, although the recordings on Clouds Of Glory actually dated back to the earlier part of the decade, following on from the Suicide sessions for the duo's second album. Martin Rev remembers: "Clouds ...
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BB316 | BUREAU B

VON SPAR - UNDER PRESSURE (CD)

"Five years after the release of the highly acclaimed 'Streetlife' album the Cologne based Neo-Kraut/Electro-Pop band returns with new recordings. 'Under Pressure' includes collaborations with Stereolab's Laetitia Sadier, with Vivien Goldmann, R. Stevie Moore and Chris ...
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BB322CD | BUREAU B

VON SPAR - UNDER PRESSURE (LP)

"Five years after the release of the highly acclaimed 'Streetlife' album the Cologne based Neo-Kraut/Electro-Pop band returns with new recordings. 'Under Pressure' includes collaborations with Stereolab's Laetitia Sadier, with Vivien Goldmann, R. Stevie Moore and Chris ...
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BB322 | BUREAU B

DORAU, ANDREAS - DEMOKRATIE (LP - USED m-/m-)

"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 ...
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BB113LP | BUREAU B

SCHICKERT, GÜNTER - NACHTFALTER (LP)

"Acclaimed in the Krautrock scene, Günter Schickert is most closely associated with the repetitive echoes of his distinctive guitar sound. Following "Samtvogel" (1974) and "Überfällig" (1979), he released "Kinder in der Wildnis", a collection of songs from the 1981 ...
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BB306 | BUREAU B

PINHAS, RICHARD - EAST WEST (CD)

"Bureau B presents a reissue of Richard Pinhas's East West, originally issued in 1980. The fourth solo album by French spacerock mastermind Pinhas, East West was his first and only album to be released by a major label (CBS). Some say it is his most commercial but ...
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BB292CD | BUREAU B

PINHAS, RICHARD - EAST WEST (LP)

"Bureau B presents a reissue of Richard Pinhas's East West, originally issued in 1980. The fourth solo album by French spacerock mastermind Pinhas, East West was his first and only album to be released by a major label (CBS). Some say it is his most commercial but ...
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BB292LP | BUREAU B

PINHAS, RICHARD - CHRONOLYSE (LP)

"Bureau B presents a reissue of Richard Pinhas's Chronolyse, originally released in 1978. Pinhas is one of the most important French electronic space-rock musicians. Following five albums with Heldon, his band, he released solo records from 1977 on. His transition to ...
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BB291LP | BUREAU B

POPULÄRE MECHANIK - KOLLEKTION 03: POPULÄRE MECHANIK COMPILED BY HOLGER HILLER (LP)

"Populäre Mechanik was a post-punk, jazz bastard project created by Wolfgang Seidel, friend and sometime musical partner of Conrad Schnitzler and founder member of Ton Steine Scherben. This collection has been curated by Holger Hiller, best known as vocalist for Palais ...
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BB186LP | BUREAU B

DORAU, ANDREAS - HAUPTSACHE ICH! (CD - USED m-/m-)

"On January 19, 2014, Andreas Dorau will celebrate his fiftieth birthday. Reason enough to release a comprehensive retrospective of the work of the "eternal boy" (Spiegel Online). "Hauptsache Ich" contains 21 songs from nine albums and spans a period of 32 years, from ...
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BB147 | BUREAU B

BUNDT, MICHAEL - ELECTRI CITY (CD - USED m-/vg++)

"Having played his way through the 1970s in various rock combos (Medusa, Nine Days' Wonder), Michael Bundt embarked on a solo career in the latter part of the decade, going on to release three albums which saw him explore the vast potential of electronic music. ...
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BB225 | BUREAU B

ALU - DIE VERTREIBUNG DER ZEIT (LP)

"ALU's inception as descendants of the psychedelic group SAND, founded by Ludwig Papenberg and Johannes Vester, comes in 1980. Their first single 'Bitte Warten Sie!' appears on their own label 'Der Letzte Schrei!' in 1981. Even on these early recordings, the project's ...
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BB309LP | BUREAU B

V.A. - SOWAS VON EGAL. GERMAN SYNTH WAVE UNDERGROUND 1980-1985 (LP)

""Sowas von egal" is a collaboration between the Hamburg record label Bureau B and the Hamburg party series Damaged Goods. The divergent trajectories of a record company on the one hand and DJs on the other are happily aligned through a love and passion for seeking out, ...
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BB310LP | BUREAU B

YOUNG, DENNIS - SYNTHESIS (LP)

"Dennis Young is best known as the percussionist of the New York band LIQUID LIQUID, which is known for their piece "Cavern" from 1983, which in turn became very well known because Grandmaster Flash sampled it and used it as the basis for their hit "White Lines" But ...
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BB294LP | BUREAU B

KAMMERFLIMMER KOLLEKTIEF - THERE ARE ACTIONS WHICH WE HAVE NEGLECTED AND WHICH NEVER CEASE TO CALL US (CD)

"After twenty years of Kammerflimmer Kollektief, with ten albums thus far, the Karlsruhe combo here guide their listeners through seven pieces in which a listening space emerges at the intersection of improvisation and composition, a space where certitude slips out of ...
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BB304CD | BUREAU B

KAMMERFLIMMER KOLLEKTIEF - THERE ARE ACTIONS WHICH WE HAVE NEGLECTED AND WHICH NEVER CEASE TO CALL US (LP)

"After twenty years of Kammerflimmer Kollektief, with ten albums thus far, the Karlsruhe combo here guide their listeners through seven pieces in which a listening space emerges at the intersection of improvisation and composition, a space where certitude slips out of ...
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BB304LP | BUREAU B

HELDON - IT'S ALWAYS ROCK 'N' ROLL (2CD)

"Third album from the French spacerock electro combo masterminded by Richard Pinhas. Heldon's darkest work lays another stone in their sonic mosaic: synths,drones, fuzz and trippy improvisations. Intense Heldon!! There's something wicked happening on Heldon's third ...
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BB282CD | BUREAU B

HELDON - IT'S ALWAYS ROCK 'N' ROLL (2LP)

"Third album from the French spacerock electro combo masterminded by Richard Pinhas. Heldon's darkest work lays another stone in their sonic mosaic: synths,drones, fuzz and trippy improvisations. Intense Heldon!! There's something wicked happening on Heldon's third ...
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BB282LP | BUREAU B

HELDON - AGNETA NILSSON (LP)

"Agneta Nilsson is an interesting step in Heldon's development: it gives a twist to their classic sound, which was mainly built around Pinhas' Fripp-esque guitar work and ambiental synth experiments, to began explore a more rhythmic territory. Drums and bass take more ...
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BB283LP | BUREAU B

DATASHOCK - KRÄUTER DER PROVINZ (CD)

"Crossed the desert? Check. Seen the pyramids? Check. What's next? "Kräuter der Provinz"... Herbs of the Province. Smoking dope with Edgar Reitz (the man who made Heimat)? A homage to regional cuisine or a celebration of backwoods origins? Absolutely not. But two for ...
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BB299 | BUREAU B

DATASHOCK - KRÄUTER DER PROVINZ (2LP & CD)

"Crossed the desert? Check. Seen the pyramids? Check. What's next? "Kräuter der Provinz"... Herbs of the Province. Smoking dope with Edgar Reitz (the man who made Heimat)? A homage to regional cuisine or a celebration of backwoods origins? Absolutely not. But two for ...
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BB299 | BUREAU B

DER PLAN / SCHLAMMPEITZIGER - SPLIT (12")

Record Store Day 2018. One Side: Der Plan 1) Wie der Wind weht (Plankton vs. Defcon Remix) 2) Man leidet herrlich (Schlammpeitziger Remix) 3) Nur ein Augenblick. Recorded and mixed during the sessions for the album "Unkapitulierbar" (BB224). Other Side: Schlammpeitziger ...
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BB296 | BUREAU B

BROCKMANN / BARGMANN / ESMARK - BROCKMANN / BARGMANN / ESMARK (12")

record store day 2018 release
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BB297 | BUREAU B

DIE WILDE JAGD - UHRWALD ORANGE (CD)

"The Uhrwald (engl. "Clockwood") - a place of dreams and sounds, with its own sense of time. Channelled into his band Die Wilde Jagd, Sebastian Lee Philipp's obsession for this place unleashes a uniquely spellbinding project of minimalist, tenebrous intensity. Recorded ...
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BB290CD | BUREAU B

HELDON - ALLEZ-TEIA (CD)

"Second album from the French space rock electro combo. Here, Heldon mastermind Richard Pinhas has formed a duo with Georges Grunblatt. The music: an interplay of feather-light acoustic guitars, Mellotron textures, fuzzy sounds and heavy, spherical synthesizers." (label ...
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BB281CD | BUREAU B