APRIL 2013

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CAMERA: "Skylla" taken from the limited Record Store Day 12"

Exclusive vinyl for the
Record Store Day, April 20

Visiting your local record dealer on April 20th will be worth it: Bureau B releases FOUR exclusive 12 inch vinyls, outtakes, new stuff, remixes and more. Available at good record stores worldwide and via our shop. Here are the details:


12" two track vinyl
• QLUSTER: "Am Horizont" (11:22) – exclusively recorded for our RSD vinyl!
• SCHNEIDER TM: "Bimanual Complexity (Gebrüder Teichmann/Festplatten Remix)" (9:18) – exclusive RSD remix

12" three track vinyl
• COLE/ROEDELIUS: "NNNNeonLLLLights" (5:28) – outtake from "Selected Studies Vol. 1"
• ROEDELIUS SCHNEIDER: "Well Sustained" (5:25), "Schlummer" (3:08) – outtakes from the recordings to their upcoming album "TIDEN"

12" three track vinyl
• MOEBIUS/TIETCHENS: "Tiefland" (4:28) – outtake from their self titled album
• JUNIOR ELECTRONICS: "Mr. Mercator" (3:40) – brand new song
• MOEBIUS/TIETCHENS/JUNIOR ELECTRONICS: "Herrlichkeit (Ken Charlton)" (2:47) – Joe Watson (= Junior Electronics) reworked the Moebius/Tietchens track by adding vocal overdubs

12" four track EP
CAMERA: "Systeme Solaire" – two brand new tracks by the Berlin "Krautrock Guerilla" and two remixes by their labelmates SØLYST (Thomas Klein from Kreidler) and Alvin B Clay (Pyrolator)

Into the heart of darkness ...
Second SØLYST album out now!

The second album by KREIDLER drummer THOMAS KLEIN – alias SØLYST – is a hypnotic journey into the heart of darkness. Foreboding synth patterns, menacing bass lines, driving drum figures, cavernous percussion effects: SØLYST delves into new depths with his "Tribal Kraut Dub". Available on CD (Digipak), vinyl (180g + CD) and for download. Out now! (Scroll down for a free download of the track "Pierbourg")

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"Offene Türen". More electronic
chamber music by Roedelius

Originally released 1982 on Sky Records. Electronical chamber music that impressively renders audible Roedelius' musical transition from the 70s into the 80s. Roedelius delights in playing a selection of synthesizers. He even deploys an analogue rhythm machine now and then to discreet effect. Complex, vibrant, enigmatic, avant-garde, timelessy beautiful. Reissued on CD, LP and as download.

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SØLYST: "Pierbourg"



taken from the album "LEAD"

New SØLYST video from upcoming album "LEAD"

"Lead" which will be out on April 12th. Find out more about "Lead" on www.bureau-b.com/solyst.php.

"Home-Taping Is Killing Music"
Early sampling experiments by Pyrolator/Klosowski (1985) out now

"Home-Taping is Killing Music" is the first and only LP by Pyrolator (Ata Tak label operative and member of Der Plan, DAF, Fehlfarben) and tape loop tinkerer Arnd Kai Klosowski. The result: whimsical, raw sound experiments from the early days of sampling technology. Originally released 1985 on Ata Tak. Available on CD (Digipak), vinyl (180g) and for download. Out now!

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MARCH 2013

Roedelius' "Selbstportrait III"
First time on CD!

The long overdue reissue of "Selbstportrait Vol. 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". "Selbstportrait III" gathers together (as did parts I and II) enraptured low-fi piano/synthesizer/electronic miniatures, musical sketches and ideas which Roedelius recorded at home in the living room on his Revox tape machine between 1973 and 1979 as a kind of "musical diary". Available on CD (Digipak), vinyl (180g) and for download. Out now!

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OFF THE RECORD. The new album by Karl Bartos. Out now!

"The Kraftwerk record Kraftwerk, it seems, are unable to make" (Financial Times). "Karl Bartos has recorded the best Kraftwerk album for more than 25 years" (DIE ZEIT). Actually that says it all. But what is it all about? Here's the story: during Kraftwerk's heyday Karl Bartos wrote – off the record – a secret acoustic diary. Based on his musical jottings – rhythms, riffs, hooks, sounds, chords and melodies – this is what he has come up with today: twelve brand new, exciting, timeless songs.

Available on CD (Digipak), vinyl (180g) and for download. Out now! (UK 18th, USA 19th)

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Karl Bartos "Off The Record" Art Print

Personally hand signed and numbered by Karl Bartos.

High-quality art print of the "Off The Record" album cover.

Exclusive limited edition of 100 (you can choose your number out of the remaining numbers).

Printed on classic Lakepaper 350 gram super smooth paper.

Format: 597 mm x 420 mm

Only available @ Bureau B Store

photography by Markus Wustmann
design by weissraum.de(sign)

FEBRUARY 2013

Opposites attract! Lloyd Cole &
Roedelius play electronica. Out now!

What a collaboration! The British singer-songwriter Lloyd Cole has always been a Cluster fan, especially of the 1976 LP "Sowiesoso". Cole released his own heavily Cluster-influenced album "Plastic Wood" in 2001. Roedelius liked it and, over the next decade, Cole and Roedelius considered working together from time to time, but never actually got around to it. It was not until 2011 when they finally met in Vienna that they could finally begin in earnest. The album reveals mature, carefully composed music, as if Cole and Roedelius had been working together for years already. Both artists focus on electronic sounds in a selection of succinct, direct pieces, free of musical garrulousness. Cole neither sings nor plays guitar and Roedelius rarely touches the keys of his grand piano. Instead, both musicians have developed a subtle soundscape which only drifts towards pure noise on one track. All of the other "studies" on the album move within a vast spectrum of harmonic wonder and rhythmic stepping stones.

Available on CD (Digipak), vinyl (180g) and for download. Out now!

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Lloyd Cole & H.-J. Roedelius: "Pastoral"

JANUARY 2013

New album by QLUSTER
"Lauschen" out now

Kluster (1969, see below) metamorphosed into Cluster (1971) and Cluster became Qluster (2011). In a period spanning over 40 years, Hans-Joachim Roedelius was a driving force behind this unique transformation. Now, as Qluster, he has recorded together with Onnen Bock in the latest incarnation. Three albums already released document the current status of their musical journey to pastures new. The fourth work, "Lauschen" (recorded live with the guest musician Armin Metz), is a particularly impressive document, with the musicians raising their art close to perfection. Using predominantly analogue electronic keyboards, they play together – in the truest sense of the word – with intense levels of concentration and yet with incredible ease.

Available on CD (Digipak), vinyl (180g) and for download. Out now!

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