Cluster —
Cluster 1971 ... LP Brain/Bureau B (Germany), 1971. New Copy (reissue)...
$27.9929.99
The first rumblings of genius from German electronic giants Cluster – but oddly, a record recorded without any synthesizers at all! The team of Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Rodelius are both playing organ here – as well as cello and Hawaiian guitar, and some "audio-generator" and amplifier effects – and they're recording with some excellent production help from the legendary Conny Plank, who uses all sorts of weird techniques to mess up the sound in really great ways. Ordinary notes are completely abstracted here – given cosmic tones and echoey rumblings that are far more challenging than most of the later work by Cluster, especially the pair's more ambient late 70s recordings. The 3 long songs are identified only by their timings – "15:33", "7:38", and "21:17". LP, Vinyl record album
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Cluster & Eno —
Cluster & Eno ... LP Sky/Bureau B (Germany), 1977. New Copy (reissue)...
$28.9934.99
A key meeting between 2 important forces in electronic music in the 70s – the increasingly-experimental Brian Eno and the Cluster team of Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius! Unlike the trio's other album, this one's an all-instrumental affair – one that takes the atmospherics of Cluster, and gives them a darker Eno edge – in a way that gives the record an incredibly moody feel, and predates endless electronic work to come in the 90s. There's a spare brilliance here that's almost indescribable – songs that are hardly songs, sounds that slide back into silence – but somehow the whole thing's got a power that's far beyond the sum of its very small parts. Titles include "Wehrmut", "Fur Luise", "One", and "Die Bunge". LP, Vinyl record album
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Faust —
Punkt ... CD Bureau B (Germany), 1974. Used ...
Just Sold Out!
A legendary lost album from Faust – a set that was to be their second for Virgin Records, recorded at a time when the group were really reveling in their darker spirits – and captured sounds that may well be the headiest they ever created! The music is incredibly dense, and often quite noisy – yet still also often has that rhythmic pulse that the group first brought to their music – giving the whole thing an unusual quality that almost makes Punkt some sort of mystical bridge between the early work of Can and the grimier sounds of Throbbing Gristle that would soon emerge! We've never needed convincing that Faust are a key part of underground musical development in the 70s – but at the same time, this record really pushes that argument even further – with mindblowing sounds on tracks that include "Juggernaut", "Fernlicht", "Morning Land", "Crapolino", and "Knochentanz". CD
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Martin Rev —
Martin Rev ... CD Infidelity/Bureau B (Germany), 1980. New Copy ...
$17.9919.99
The brilliant solo debut of Martin Rev – a set that feels like it's peeled away all his best contributions from the first Suicide album, then found a way to serve them up with a slightly different vibe that really sets the album apart! There's lots of analog fuzz and echo – that same spacey style that made Suicide so great – but the keyboards dominate even more than before, as only one tune features vocals – which lets Rev do all these really cool things with the electronics – continuing his way of taking earlier prog, avant, and Krautrock experiments and fusing them into a leaner, meaner style for the punk generation! The album's got a very seminal sound – a key text in the cold wave generation – and titles include "Jomo", "Mari", "Baby O Baby", "Nineteen 86", and "Asia". CD
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Supersempfft —
Roboterwerke ... CD CBS/Bureau B (Germany), 1979. New Copy ...
$17.9919.99
The wonderful debut of Supersempfft – a set that originally appeared on a major label, but seems to prefigure all the hip sounds to come on German indie labels in the early 80s! The vibe here is not unlike that of Pyrolator – in that Dieter Kolb handles most of the instruments and voices himself, but in a playful style that's as cartoony as the cover – lots of cool electronics, but warmed up and more whimsical than work from the cold wave generation to come! The whole thing is wonderful, and the individual tracks work together flawlessly – with titles that include "Pipedreams On A Lilypad", "Let's Beam Him Up", "Be A Man You Frog", "Out Of Time", "The Best Thing Is To Get High", and "I'm Gonna Make You Big". CD
Supersempfft —
Roboterwerke ... LP CBS/Bureau B (Germany), 1979. New Copy ...
$27.9929.99
The wonderful debut of Supersempfft – a set that originally appeared on a major label, but seems to prefigure all the hip sounds to come on German indie labels in the early 80s! The vibe here is not unlike that of Pyrolator – in that Dieter Kolb handles most of the instruments and voices himself, but in a playful style that's as cartoony as the cover – lots of cool electronics, but warmed up and more whimsical than work from the cold wave generation to come! The whole thing is wonderful, and the individual tracks work together flawlessly – with titles that include "Pipedreams On A Lilypad", "Let's Beam Him Up", "Be A Man You Frog", "Out Of Time", "The Best Thing Is To Get High", and "I'm Gonna Make You Big". LP, Vinyl record album
A wonderfully groovy set of Christmas tracks – one done in a style very similar to the Get Easy Snow compilations – as you might guess from the title! The selection here is great – with a few perennial favorites, a few rare gems, and a great middle stretch of wonderful bits from some of the grooviest artists of the 60s and 70s – a great antidote to some of the too-played holiday music you might hear during the 12th month of the year! Titles include "Santa Claus Is Definitely Hear To Stay" by James Brown, "Close Your Mouth It's Christmas" by Free Design, "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" by Jimmy McGriff, "Snow" by Claudine Longet, "Black Christmas" by The Emotions, "Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer" by The Temptations, "Christmas Gift" by Margie Joseph, "Winter Warm" by Bob Crewe Generation, "Snow Flakes" by The Ventures, "Winter Symphony" by The Beach Boys, "This Christmas" by Donny Hathaway, "Children Go Where I Send Thee" by Kenny Burrell, "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" by Ray Anthony & His Bookends, "Swinging Christmas" by Helmut Zacharias, and "Jingo Jango" by Bert Kaempfert. CD
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Leslie West —
Live! ... CD Blues Bureau, 1993. Used ...
Temporarily Out Of Stock
A jagged, jarring, surprisingly melodic and all together exhilarating modern effort from Krautrock royalty Faust – a hypnotizing and worthy effort from one of the longest standing avant rock groups ever! Faust founding members Jean-Herve Peron and Zappi Diermaier keep it going staggeringly well with former Gallon Drunk swaggerer and multi-instrumentalist James Johnston and multimedia artist Geraldine Swayne and piano, synth and more. Tracks include "Tell The Bitch To Go Home", "Whet", "Thoughts Of The Dead", "Je Boeffe", "Invisible Mending", "Pythagoras", "Dampfausless" (1 & 2) and more. CD
The first collaboration between Dieter Moebius and Conny Plank – and one of the best! The pair come together here in modes that are a lot more playful than some of the other German projects of this nature at the time – not as spare and sensitive as some of the others, and with a bolder sense of rhythm, and willingness to drop lots of odd elements into the mix – a style that almost makes the record come across with similar tones to the Brian Eno/David Byrne collaborations of the early 80s! Each tune has a basic structure, and a few key elements – fuzzy guitar, odd electronics, offbeat rhythms – and they each state their existence quickly, laying out a basic concept right away, then playing with it in cool ways as the tunes roll on. Apart from some found spoken bits, the whole thing's instrumental – and titles include "News", "Feedback 66", "Landebahn", "Solar Plexus", "Two Oldtimers", and "Missi Cacadou". LP, Vinyl record album
One of the darker records to ever come out under the Moebius name – a set done in collaboration with legendary soundman Conny Plank and Mani Neumeir of Guru Guru – all key German talents of the 70s, ready to take on the new decade and beat them at their own game! There's lots of cold wave and post punk energy going on here – electronics that are more aggressive and sharp-edged than some of the earlier music that Moebius recorded – almost as if he knew all along that he could twist things a bit more heavily, which he definitely does here – on cuts that include "Speed Display", "Load", "Pitch Control", All Repro", "Search Zero", and "Recall". LP, Vinyl record album
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Supersempfft —
Metaluna ... LP Wunderwerke/Bureau B (Germany), 1981. New Copy (reissue)...
Out Of Stock
One of those totally cool records from the German new wave – a set that's every bit as cartoony as you might guess from its cover, and which resonates strongly with work at the time from artists like Pyrolator or Der Plan! The music is in the territory of cold wave electronics, but warmer and more playful too – almost like some of the Japanese work that sprung up at the end of the 70s, but with some of the quirkier elements that makes us love the German new wave so much! There's plenty of cool keyboards and processed vocals – and titles include "Butterfly Baccanal", "I Can Sing", "Wutt Wutt", "Bubbles & Smoke", "Shine On Me", and "I See Stars". LP, Vinyl record album
A deep dive into the genius of Faust – material recorded by the groundbreaking experimental collective at their home base during the early 70s, none of issued at the time! The work here stands as a seminal addendum to the too-small catalog of the group's material from these days – and the sounds within really show Faust at their most creative – moving through the kind of sonic territory that you'd know from their records, but presented here as if you've discovered an album that you somehow passed by! Some tracks are spare and moody, others driving and jamming – and throughout the material, Faust show that really unique ear for mixing live instrumentation and studio experimentation – all at a level that was very much their own, even in the heady company of the Krautrock generation. The material was originally part of the expensive Faust box set, but is presented here as a standalone release – and titles on volume two include "Danach", "Lampe An Tur Zu Leutte Rein", "Wir Wollen Mehr Volumen Kriegen", "Arrampicarsi Sul Vesuvio", "As Tu Vu Mon Ombre", "Ma Trompette", and "Dampf". CD
Great experimental work from Holger Hiller – a set that was issued on the important German new wave label Ata Tak, but which was maybe even more revolutionary than most other records on the imprint at the time! Hiller bridges so many different worlds here – earlier German electronic experimentation at an academic level, some of the spacier sounds of the prog generation, and the really creative exploration of earlier ideas in a more personal level that marked the new wave of the post-punk years – using some elements here that would be right at home on a cold wave recording, but with modes that are sometimes more playful, and almost in territory that Holger Czukay would explore on some of his solo work of the decade. The mix of keyboards, vocals, and analog elements is great – and titles include "Jonny", "Hosen Die Nicht Aneinander Passen", "Mutter Der Frohlichkeit", "Das Feuer", "Ein Hoch Auf Das Bugeln", and "Budapest Bukarest". CD
Great experimental work from Holger Hiller – a set that was issued on the important German new wave label Ata Tak, but which was maybe even more revolutionary than most other records on the imprint at the time! Hiller bridges so many different worlds here – earlier German electronic experimentation at an academic level, some of the spacier sounds of the prog generation, and the really creative exploration of earlier ideas in a more personal level that marked the new wave of the post-punk years – using some elements here that would be right at home on a cold wave recording, but with modes that are sometimes more playful, and almost in territory that Holger Czukay would explore on some of his solo work of the decade. The mix of keyboards, vocals, and analog elements is great – and titles include "Jonny", "Hosen Die Nicht Aneinander Passen", "Mutter Der Frohlichkeit", "Das Feuer", "Ein Hoch Auf Das Bugeln", and "Budapest Bukarest". LP, Vinyl record album
Beautiful solo electronics from Moebius – an album recorded in the early 80s, but with a really timeless feel that takes it far from so many other electric sets of this vintage! There's still very much a spacious sound going on here – similar to the Cluster projects with Roedelius – warmly melodic, and very understated – every bit that picture perfect approach to analogue electronics that Kraftwerk first brought into the scene, and which guys like Moebius perfected even more with records like this! Titles include "Nervos", "B 36", "Immerhin", "Sinister", "Furbo", "Etwas", and "Transport". LP, Vinyl record album
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Martin Rev —
Martin Rev ... LP Infidelity/Bureau B (Germany), 1980. New Copy (reissue)...
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The brilliant solo debut of Martin Rev – a set that feels like it's peeled away all his best contributions from the first Suicide album, then found a way to serve them up with a slightly different vibe that really sets the album apart! There's lots of analog fuzz and echo – that same spacey style that made Suicide so great – but the keyboards dominate even more than before, as only one tune features vocals – which lets Rev do all these really cool things with the electronics – continuing his way of taking earlier prog, avant, and Krautrock experiments and fusing them into a leaner, meaner style for the punk generation! The album's got a very seminal sound – a key text in the cold wave generation – and titles include "Jomo", "Mari", "Baby O Baby", "Nineteen 86", and "Asia". LP, Vinyl record album
The really great debut album from Sprung Aus Den Wolken – a group who got a bit more tuneful in later years, but who here are still very much at the forefront of the early German industrial scene! The set is full of noise, and vocals that are spoken more than sung – yet also is never too completely over the top, as like some of the best of their generation, such as Throbbing Gristle, the group really know how to make music from unusual sources, and not just create noise for noise's sake. The starkness of the album is wonderful – dark fuzz, heady echo, and a raw power that still holds up over the years – on titles that include "Que Pa", "Warte", "Als Ware Nichts Gewesen", "Langst Fallig", "Gong A Minute", "Begehre Dich", and "Sei Still". LP, Vinyl record album
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Supersempfft —
Metaluna ... CD Wunderwerke/Bureau B (Germany), 1981. New Copy ...
Out Of Stock
One of those totally cool records from the German new wave – a set that's every bit as cartoony as you might guess from its cover, and which resonates strongly with work at the time from artists like Pyrolator or Der Plan! The music is in the territory of cold wave electronics, but warmer and more playful too – almost like some of the Japanese work that sprung up at the end of the 70s, but with some of the quirkier elements that makes us love the German new wave so much! There's plenty of cool keyboards and processed vocals – and titles include "Butterfly Baccanal", "I Can Sing", "Wutt Wutt", "Bubbles & Smoke", "Shine On Me", and "I See Stars". CD
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Red Mitchell & Kenny Barron —
Red Barron Duo ... CD Storyville/Ultra Vybe (Japan), 1986. New Copy ...
$11.9915.99About December 4, 2024
Red Mitchell started out as a standard bassist on the west coast scene of the 50s, but by the time of this 80s date, he'd become something else entirely – a wonderfully open, expressive player who drew strongly from a number of years spent on the European scene – and could stretch out in ways that nobody would have imagined decades before! Here, he sticks to his core instrument – but also shows a great deal of sympathy for Kenny Barron's work on piano – an instrument that Red had been playing a lot in the 70s too – often using his bass with these tones that are sometimes similar to the keys of the piano, with a sense of color and flow that's really wonderful. Barron's no slouch at all – and is very much at his post-70s best here – lightly lyrical one moment, but surprisingly powerful the next, often still using a very subtle approach. The pair are beautiful together – and titles include "Namely You", "Finally", "Sunshower", "Bureau Blues", and "Oleo". CD
Great stuff from the early days of the New York Giant Steps/8 Ball/acid jazz scene! Despite the title, most of the track have house music at the base – but in keeping with the New York approach to acid jazz in the early 90s, most of the cuts are seasoned with a very healthy dose of real musicianship, and all are very much in the groove! Tracks include "Black Thoughts" and "Jazz Impressions" by The African Dream, "On The Sand" by Groove Thing, "Vibe Providin" by Peace Bureau, "Set Me Free" by Alvin Bobby Watts, and "Satsuki" by Giant Step. CD
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