ROEDELIUS

Tape Archive 1973–1978. 3 LPs (180g) + 3 CDs + Booklet

Bureau B releases a limited 3-LP Boxset to celebrate Roedelius' 80th anniversary! With "Roedelius Tape Archive 1973–1978" for the first time ever this Roedelius audio sketchbook has been digitalised and available to the public. The boxset offers us a deep insight into the creative process of his music. Fleeting notes, slivers of ideas, so to speak, moments of inspiration. Finger exercises, experiments in harmony, studies in rhythm are also preserved on these magnetic tapes.

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ROEDELIUS – KOLLEKTION 02

Electronic Music – compiled by Lloyd Cole. CD / vinyl / download

Official Hans-Joachim Roedelius 80th anniversary (Oct 26th 2104) release! British songwriter Lloyd Cole has long since been a fan of Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Cluster. For convincing evidence, one need look no further than his 2001 album "Plastic Wood", a purely electronic opus which was an unambiguous homage to his musical idols. In 2013 Cole and Roedelius actually joined forces to release their "Selected Studies Vol. 1" album (BB 124). Cole has now listened through the Hans-Joachim Roedelius solo archives to present his favourite synthesizer or organ pieces in our KOLLEKTION series.

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FAUST

Just Us. CD / vinyl + CD / download

“j US t” – pronounced “Just Us” – is the new album from legendary Hamburg band Faust. Founder members Jean-Hervé Peron and Zappi Diermaier have laid down twelve musical foundations, inviting the whole world to use them as a base on which to build their own music. The tracks presented by Peron and Diermaier are clearly, intrinsically typical of Faust in their own right, yet offer enough space for completely different works to develop. Which is exactly what they hope will happen.

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SCHNEIDER TM &

BOOTLEG – the first record made by boots and legs. 12 " vinyl

BOOTLEG is a limited 12" vinyl with AUTOMAT (Jochen Arbeit, Achim Färber, Georg Zeitblom) and SCHNEIDER TM (Dirk Dresselhaus) turning scratched blank vinyls into music. This blank vinyl was taped to the floor during an AUTOMAT concert and the crowd danced on it. Played on turntables you only heard noise. Automat and Schneider TM then used the tracks to compose three unique tracks. BOOTLEG shows that you can turn dance into music and fans into musicians.

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V. A. – KOLLEKTION 01

Sky Records compiled by Tim Gane. CD / vinyl / download

To provide an overview of the various musical styles in which Bureau B specializes, the label will launch a new compilation entitled KOLLEKTION. Each release in this series will be curated by a musician perfectly suited to the task. The first release will be "SKY RECORDS. Compiled by TIM GANE". The erstwhile Stereolab mastermind delves through the archives of the legendary German Krautrock label. Gane: "Sky was one of the labels that represented this more playful second period of innovative German music that first started in the late 60's and had developed in the late 70's into something rather different but, I think, no less groundbreaking."

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TARWATER

Adrift. CD / vinyl + CD / download

"Adrift" is the latest and the twelfth studio album by Bernd Jestram and Ronald Lippok. The Berlin-based indietronics/neo krautrock duo has existed since 1995. So far, they have released eleven regular studio albums, collaborated with various artists (including Piano Magic, Tuxedomoon, B. Fleischmann) and produced music for numerous films and theater pieces. Lippok has also played in the band To Rococo Rot since 1995.

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GUT UND IRMLER

500m. CD / vinyl + CD / download

Hans-Joachim Irmler (Faust) and Gudrun Gut (Malaria, Mania D, Einstürzende Neubauten) are two musicians with an artistic approach that could hardly be more different. And exactly this circumstance is the main reason for their first collaboration. On "500m" the Krautrock-informed, epic willingness to explore on the part of Irmler, and the structured and technoid Berlin discipline of Gut are conjoined in glistening beauty, recorded at the Faust studio in Scheer in Autumn of 2013.

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DEUTSCHE WERTARBEIT

Reissue from 1981. CD / vinyl (180g) / download

"Deutsche Wertarbeit" (= quality German workmanship) is a long forgotten jewel of German electronic music. Released in 1981, it is the only solo album made by the Düsseldorf keyboard player and composer Dorothea Raukes. One of the founders of the rock band Streetmark and a member until its end, Raukes collected six synthesizer treasures for "Deutsche Wertarbeit", artfully unifying the so-called Düsseldorf School (Kraftwerk etc.), the Berliner School (Tangerine Dream etc.) and elements of Jean Michel Jarre's music with sounds of the inceptive 1980s—from the hypnotic to the hymnal, at times "cosmic".

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CAMERA

Remember I Was Carbon Dioxide. CD / vinyl + CD / download

The so called "Krautrock Guerilla" is back! After touring the world for two years the Berlin threesome CAMERA recorded twelve new songs: Motorik-driven, energetic stretches laced with psychedelic overtones rise up from keyboards, drums and guitars. Hypnotic beats. Shimmering elegance, forceful bursts of garage rock, a gentle flow, spherical flight. All on CAMERA's new album "Remember I Was Carbon Dioxide".

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HARALD GROSSKOPF

Oceanheart. Reissue from 1986. CD / vinyl (180g) / download

Harald Grosskopf is best known as drummer in the band Ashra and for Klaus Schulze ("Moondawn") and as an electronic musician. Following "Synthesist" (1980, see below), "Oceanheart" was his second solo album. It may sound like a child of the 1980s, but in a compositional sense it is related to the Berliner Schule / Berlin School of the 70's. The reissue comes with a new artwork and was mastered from the original tapes.

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HARALD GROSSKOPF

Synthesist. Reissue from 1980. CD / vinyl (180g) / download

"Synthesist" is the first solo album by Ashra drummer Harald Grosskopf. It is one of the classics of German electronic music, comprising eight instrumentals composed in the tradition of the so-called Berliner Schule / Berlin School (Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream). Mastered from the original tapes!

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CLUSTER

One Hour. Reissue from 1994. CD / vinyl (180g) / download

In 1994 the seminal electronic duo Cluster (Dieter Moebius & Hans-Joachim Roedelius) continued what they had begun in 1990 with "Apropos Cluster", their comeback album. The more mature "One Hour" condenses essential passages from two lengthy sessions into 60 minutes. We hear sprawling soundscapes, clear acoustic sketches, musical extravaganzas, in short: highly impressionistic electronica.

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ZIGURI

CD / vinyl (180g) + CD / download

Ziguri is a project comprising Krautrock legend Günter Schickert, Udo Erdenreich and Dieter Kölsch. Active from 1987 to 1997, they reformed in 2011 and now, some 27 years later to be exact, present us with their first album. The music: hypnotic trance/Motorik/psychic rock-driving, monotonous beats and bass lines, overlain by floating patterns from Schickert's inimitable Echodrive guitar.

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KREIDLER / AUTOMAT (RSD excl.)

Record Store Day exclusive split 12" Maxi

One side: Kreidler: 1) Snowblind 2) Escaped
Other side: Automat: 1) MTY 2) CUL

2014 sees the 20th anniversary of German electronic pioneers Kreidler. We are celebrating with a tour, a movie by Heinz Emigholz, and the new album release "ABC" (which has been recorded in Tbilisi, Georgia). Featured here are two tracks mixed by the prolific producer Pete Walsh. // Jochen Arbeit, Achim Färber and Georg Zeitblom have been collaborating under the name Automat since the end of 2011. Their debut album was released just a few weeks ago, featured here are three unreleased outtakes from the album. The song "Berlin Wall" is a collaboration with Throbbing Gristle's & Psychic TV's Genesis Breyer P-Orridge.

SCHNEIDER TM / MOEBIUS NEUMEIER ENGLER (RSD excl.)

Record Store Day exclusive split 12" Maxi

One side: Schneider TM: "WFMU Stream Test"
Other side: Moebius Neumeier Engler: "Wohlauf" (Maxi version)

The track "Wohlauf (Maxi Version)" is an unreleased version taken from the project "Other Places" by musicians Dieter Moebius (vital protagonist of the Krautrock / avant-garde scene i.e. Kluster, Cluster, Harmonia), Krautrock stalwart and Guru Guru drummer Mani Neumeier and Jürgen Engler (from the epicentre of Germany's post punk scene as a member of Male and later head of steel machine musicians Die Krupps). // "WFMU Stream Test" is a new track by Dirk Dresselhaus a.k.a. Schneider TM (electronic pioneer involved in countless music, film, radio and various other sound projects).

SCHNAUSS & PETERS / PYROLATOR (RSD excl.)

Record Store Day exclusive split 12" Maxi.

One side: Ulrich Schnauss & Mark Peters: Remix of the Rainbirds song "Wind Was Playing With My Hair"
Other side: Pyrolator: 1) "Im Nachtbus" 2) remix of the Fehlfarben song "Herbstwind"

Ulrich Schnauss, internationally acclaimed indietronic musician and producer, and Mark Peters, guitarist of the band Engineers, have been colloborating on two full album releases for Bureau B: "Underrated Silence" and "Tomorrow Is Another Day". Here's an unreleased remix they recently produced. Kurt "Pyrolator" Dahlke, music and computer specialist, co-founder of the Ata Tak record label and publishing company and member of Fehlfarben with two unreleased gems.

KREIDLER

ABC. CD / vinyl+CD / DL

2014 marks twenty years of KREIDLER. The band has outgrown adolescence, but remains juvenile, reckless, impetuous. They recorded their new album ABC in Tbilisi, Georgia. And there will also be a film – by Heinz Emigholz, who accompanied the last album DEN with film clips.

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ROEDELIUS

Flieg Vogel fliege. CD / vinyl / DL. Out Aug 8, 2014

"Flieg Vogel fliege" (Fly bird fly) is the fifth instalment of Hans-Joachim Roedelius' "Self-portrait" series, with musical sketches and ideas recorded by Roedelius between the years of 1973 and 1979 on a Revox tape machine in his living room. In contrast to the previous self-portraits, which he left untouched, Roedelius revised these recordings and embellished them with further tracks.

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MOEBIUS STORY LEIDECKER

Snowghost Pieces. CD / vinyl+CD / DL. Out June 27, 2014

Dieter Moebius charted new "Krautronik" ground as one half of Cluster (with Hans-Joachim Roedelius) for many years. The Americans Tim Story and Jon Leidecker are two electronic musicians who could not be more different to one another. Story is known for his warm soundscapes whilst Leidecker has made an name for himself, or rather for his "Wobbly" pseudonym, with experimental adventures in sound. "Snowghost pieces" features harmonious, electronic improvisations of the highest order. Hypnotic rhythms embellished with sometimes bizarre, always surprising sounds and noises.

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CLUSTER

Apropos Cluster. Reissue from 1990. CD / vinyl / DL

Cluster (Dieter Moebius, Hans-Joachim Roedelius) are considered pioneers of electronic music and key Krautrock protagonists. In the late 1960s, together with Konrad Schnitzler as the trio Kluster, they changed the world of music for ever with their radical improvisations. Having split from Schnitzler, Moebius and Roedelius continued as Cluster, releasing eight further milestones of electronic and ambient music up until 1981, two of them with Brian Eno. A hiatus lasting almost a decade was brought to an end in 1990 when Cluster made a surprise comeback with "Apropos Cluster".

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DIE PARTEI

La Freiheit des Geistes. Reissue from 1981. CD / vinyl / DL

DIE PARTEI was a one-off project featuring musician Tom Dokoupil (Siluetes 61, The Wirtschaftswunder) and the artist and musician Walter Dahn (Die Hornissen). The pair met up for a single weekend in 1981 to record "La Freiheit des Geistes" ("La Freedom of the Spirit"), a fantastic instrumental post-punk synthpop album. At times its forward thrust sounds cold, restless and hectic, at other moments it comes across as pleasantly winsome and melodic, plangent even. Film quotes and sporadic bursts of instruments (in particular Dokoupil's clean Vox guitar and a saxophone) flavour the music. "La Freiheit des Geistes" is an album of opposites in a state of mutual attraction, just as Dokoupil and Dahn intended.

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AUTOMAT

Automat. CD / vinyl+CD / DL

Since 2011 the Berlin-based musicians Jochen Arbeit (Die Haut, Einstürzende Neubauten), Achim Färber (Project Pitchfork, Prag, Phillip Boa), and Zeitblom (Sovetskoe Foto) have been collaborating under the name AUTOMAT. Their self titled debut album tells the story of the four Berlin airports and is a dark dub/dance/groove masterpiece with guest appearances by Blixa Bargeld, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, and Lydia Lunch.

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ANDREAS DORAU

Hauptsache Ich!. CD / LP+CD / DL

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 his first album "Blumen und Narzissen" to his latest work "Aus der Bibliothèque". As a bonus, the first edition of "Hauptsache Ich!" includes the rarities collection "Silbernes Ich". Congratulations!

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ANDREAS DORAU

Aus der Bibliothèque. CD / LP+CD / DL

Finally a new album by the grandmaster of pop! "Aus der Bibliothèque" is the first album which Dorau has recorded with a band since "Demokratie" (1988). Backed by "Die Liga der gewöhnlichen Gentlemen". he sought inspiration in the quarry of ideas known as the Hamburg Central Library. The result: poppy krautrock, Beatlesque sunshine pop, soft rock, electronica. In short, a superb album!

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MOEBIUS NEUMEIER ENGLER

Other Places. Reissue from 1996. CD, LP (180 g), DL

In 1996 three old hands of German underground music came together to record nine improvised "one take recordings" without overdubs or corrections: Dieter Moebius (Kluster, Cluster, Harmonia) on synthesizer and electronics, Mani Neumeier (Guru Guru) on drums, and Jürgen Engler (Male, Die Krupps) on guitars. The result: a fascinating electronic world of sonic spectra, cacophony on the one hand, harmony on the other; dark but not murky, outlandish without being weird – an almost magical, ritualistic atmosphere. The reissue comes with new artwork.

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MOEBIUS NEUMEIER ENGLER

Another Other Places. CD, LP (180 g), DL

"Another Other Places" is – after a 17 year hiatus – the successor to "Other Places" (see above), this manifesto of improvised avant-garde music by Dieter Moebius (Kluster, Cluster, Harmonia) on synthesizer and electronics, Mani Neumeier (Guru Guru) on drums, and Jürgen Engler (Male, Die Krupps) on guitars. The result: no repeat performance, instead a clear progression from its predecessor – the ambitious, but never unduly cerebral improvisation of three musical eccentrics.

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ASMUS TIETCHENS

Nachtstücke. Reissue from 1980. CD, LP (180 g), DL

Before Asmus Tietchens released four albums on Germany's Sky Records label (home of Cluster, Michael Rother etc.), he recorded "Nachtstücke" (nocturnes) for the french EGG label, produced by Tangerine Dream's Peter Baumann. It was recorded between 1975 to 1978 and features shadowy, ghostly, predominantly solemn synthesizer music, far removed from the oblique synth pop albums of his subsequent Sky Records phase. The reissue comes with new artwork.

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ASMUS TIETCHENS

Der Fünfte Himmel. Outtakes. CD, LP (180 g), DL

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 generic tag "pseudo pop". "Der Fünfte Himmel" (The Fifth Sky) reaches back to a time before and after the so-called Zeitzeichen phase (Sky Records phase), gathering up unwanted or rejected pieces, the ones considered unsuitable or simply left behind. This collection has never been released before in this form!

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CONRAD SCHNITZLER

"Congratulacion". Reissue. CD, LP (180 g), DL.

Conrad Schnitzler (1937–2011), composer and concept artist, is one of the most important representatives of Germany's electronic music avant-garde. A student of Joseph Beuys, he founded Berlin's legendary Zodiak Free Arts Lab, a subculture club, in 1967/68, was a member of Tangerine Dream (together with Klaus Schulze and Edgar Froese) and Kluster (with Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius) and also released countless solo albums. On "Congratulacion" (originally released 1987 on the small spanish label Esplendor Geometrico) Schnitzler experimented with the Yamaha CX5 synthesizer, new on the market. The results were surprisingly structured and harmonious for Schnitzler.

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PYROLATOR

Pyrolator's Traumland. Reissue from 1987. CD, vinyl (180 g), DL

The adventurous avant-garde musician Pyrolator (member of Der Plan, DAF, Fehlfarben and Ata Tak label founder) struck out on a completely new path for his fourth solo album in 1987: sophisticated pop music, potentially compatible with the charts – proper vocals, jazzy harmonies and sax solos. The album divided opinion: critics were enthralled, fans alienated. Time to rediscover this unusual work. CD, vinyl (180g), download.

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