BUREAU B

"The second part of the series "Experimental Electronic Underground GDR" is dedicated to the artist Jörg Thomasius. Also known as Tomato, Thomasius was born in East Berlin in 1955 and was inspired by the progressive sounds of the early 1970s, including the burgeoning ...
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DEUTSCHE EXPERIMENTELLE POP-MUSIK 1980-86
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"A cynic might propound the notion that to reissue an album entitled "Es ist eine fremde und seltsame Welt" at this particular moment would be to hit the nail on the head with painful exactitude. No cynics here, however, only music lovers. We are Bureau B and we have ...
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"Der Plan (Moritz R®, Frank Fenstermacher, Pyrolator) were instrumental in ushering in the German New Wave (NDW) and are considered free spirits of synthesizer pop: electronic music created with minimal means, sometimes experimental, playful or even bordering on ...
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"50 years of Faust, / 7-LP + 2 Singles This box is the first virtually complete collection of FAUST official studio releases from the years 1971-1974. In addition to the debut album, it includes the 1972 album So Far, the legendary 1973 Virgin UK release The Faust Tapes ...
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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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"Heldon were the most important French electronic space rock musicians. The band were Richard Pinhas with a variety of guest musicians on different tracks. The debut "Electronique Guerilla" (1974) is a psychedelic sonic symbiosis of Pinhas' 1954 Gibson Les Paul and his ...
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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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"Inspired by Punk and Post Punk, vibrant scenes dedicated to independent self-actualisation by means of sound circulated on self-distributed cassettes, in the 80s the cheapest and fastest medium, were developing not only in the FRG but also in the GDR (=DDR). The ...
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"Asmus Tietchens is one of the most renowned German artists in the abstract music scene. He began by recording a handful of Residents-influenced synthesizer albums, launching into a peerless mix of stuttering beats and off-kilter harmonies which earned his music the ...
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special offer "Dubbed "Krautrock Guerilla", the Berlin-based trio Camera has played with Krautrock legends Michael Rother and Dieter Moebius and performed at the German Film Prize and Echo Awards ceremonies. Camera like nothing better than playing spontaneous concerts ...
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"Zwei Osterei is the second half of a recording session which took place on a single day in November 1970. Klopfzeichen is the first part. Yet the uncompromising Zwei Osterei surpasses the earlier Klopfzeichen album by some distance in terms of its harsh noisiness and ...
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