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Bureau B present a reissue of Heldon's fourth album Agneta Nilsson, originally released on Urus Records in 1976. Agneta Nilsson opens with a mind-paralyzing track that proves stillness can have a pulse. "Perspective I" spends ten minutes poring through tectonic layers of heavy sound, piling everything so thick that the song becomes like quicksand for your brain. It's one of the most daunting works in the Heldon catalog, made all the more impressive by how simple it is. It's just sounds put toget…

Bureau B once again dive into the Sky archive, unearthing another overlooked masterpiece long due for rediscovery. Originally released in 1985, Voyage finds Dieter Schütz venturing beyond his Berlin School roots into a realm of lo-fi immediacy and New Age naivety. Every instrument is played by Schütz himself, except for the drums on 'Above,' which are performed with syncopated zeal by Michael Fecker. While its textured synthscapes and wistful melodies may echo the aesthetics of 2010s Vaporwave, …

Berlin-based project Silberstreif announces the release of their new album Ich suche dein Gesicht, available now on Bandcamp. With a name that translates to “silver lining,” Silberstreif crafts music that reflects both fragility and resilience, weaving together textures of ambient, electronic, and experimental sound.   Ich suche dein Gesicht (“I am searching for your face”) is more than an album: it is a sonic exploration of intimacy, distance, and the fleeting nature of human connection. Across…

When in 2006 our Zonic Spezial "Voltage. Power. Resistance. Magnetic Tape Underground GDR 1979-1990" was published in cooperation with Verbrecher Verlag and the legendary label ZickZack, there was some amazement. Especially when the enclosed CDs were listened to from a Western perspective. Part of this weird Kassettentäter-Ost potpourri of swirling post-punk variety, which Bert Papenfuß, Bo Kondren, Bernd Jestram and Ronald Lippok compiled with well-founded interpretive authority, was also a pie…

CD version. Bureau B present a very special release: Kiosque Of Arrows 2 is Detlef Weinrich's (aka Tolouse Low Trax) first compilation for Bureau B. Echoing the spirit of the legendary samplers found on Les Disques Du Crépuscule or Made To Measure, this hybrid journal not only collates unusual pieces of music -- rare and undiscovered pearls from the experimental underground of the early 1980s through to contemporary unreleased recordings -- it also represents a reflective collage of cut-ups, obs…

Thumbing through the back pages of German electronic music, Bureau B uncovers another hidden gem from the Sky Records archive: 'Inventions', the 1983 collaboration between Adelbert von Deyen and Dieter Schütz. Fusing expansive kosmische textures with biting rock guitars, motorik rhythms, and the growl of '80s synth-pop, the duo conjure a sonic singularity which still sounds like the future today. Compact yet cosmic, 'Inventions' distils ambient drift and experimental edge into taut, three-minute…

Original German edition on Harvest/EMI of the excellent 1979 debut solo album by Can's bassist and producer, featuring fellow band members Irmin Schmidt and Michael Karoli.

1984 meditative electronic/ambient album on Kuckuck by New Age pioneer.

Rare 2004 single with hand-made cover released in an edition of 315 numbered copies by Kernkrach with two tracks from an obscure 1981 cassette by NDW/d.i.y electronic project.

Rare unofficial 2LP set released in 1987 with folded poster cover with a recording of the live show in München on June 12, 1981.

Original Italian edition on PDU of the fourth album of very original meditative Eastern-tinged krautrock. NWW list.

Original Italian quadraphonic edition on PDU of the lovely meditative LP from 1975. NWW list.

Original UK edition on Venture of the 1987 album of lovely piano/ambient music by Kluster/Cluster member and krautrock pillar.

First 1997 CD re-issue on Plate Lunch of the wild electronic first album from 1973 former Tangerine Dream / Kluster memember and one of the most peculiar and adventurous electronic explorers of the German scene.

First vinyl re-issue on M=minimal of the very rare privately released "red cassette" from 1974 of minimal rhythmic/floating electronic music by former Tangerine Dream / Kluster memember and one of the most peculiar and adventurous electronic explorers of the German scene.

Very rare original 1980 EP on RCA with four pieces of NDW/avantgarde-dance electronic music by former Tangerine Dream / Kluster memember and one of the most peculiar and adventurous electronic explorers of the German scene.

1988 double-cassette set on Auricle released in an edition of 200 hand-numbered copies by the two outstanding Berlin electronic musicians.

Late 1970's re-issue on Brain of the astonishing and ground-breaking debut album of beautiful experimental cosmic music originally released in 1972. A masterpiece on the NWW list.

Late 1970's re-issue on Brain of the astonishing and ground-breaking debut album of beautiful experimental cosmic music originally released in 1972. A masterpiece on the NWW list.

Original first edition on Ohr / Kosmische Musik of the astonishing and ground-breaking second double-album of beautiful experimental cosmic music originally released in 1973. A masterpiece on the NWW list.

Late 1970's re-issue on Brain of the astonishing and ground-breaking second double-album of beautiful experimental cosmic music originally released in 1973. A masterpiece on the NWW list.

Late 1970's Italian edition on Ricordi's "Orizzonte" series of the 1974 classic of German cosmic synthesizer music of the Berlin School. NWW list.

Original edition on Brain of the colossal 1978 double album of overwhelming "orchestral" synthesizer music by the Berlin school master. NWW list.

Original 1983 double album on the composer's own Innovative Communication label, recorded live in Poland with the collaboration of Rainer Bloss presenting re-worked/improvised interpretations of material from Audentity and X.

*25 copies limited edition* 10 sequences recorded, improvised late at night on the elka omb 5 (one man band 5), a rare Italian arranger keyboard/synth/drum thing that is total digital from 1985 consisting of couple of fm voices and pcm drums, except for the string sounds that go through an analog bbd chorus ensemble etc. A weird thing that gets hot and has a loud inbuilt fan to cool it off. The omb 5 gets mixed into the solton commander 4000s, a rare analog power mixer/tape delay/spring reverb c…

Original Italian edition of the essential 1974 milestone and masterpiece of Berlin School music. NWW list

Original Italian edition of the essential 1974 milestone and masterpiece of Berlin School music. NWW list

Original Italian edition of the essential 1975 milestone and masterpiece of Berlin School music. NWW list.

1981 US re-issue on Virgin International of the highly influential sequencer-heavy 1975 album of Berlin School music.

Original Italian edition of the great 1976 album by one of the most influential German bands. NWW list.

Original 1987 CD version on Erdenklang of the 1986 LP of lovely Ambient / New Age music by a member of Eulenspygel and Wolfgang Dauner's Et Cetera.

2004 compilation on Was Soll Das? Schallplatten collecting material from early 1980's tapes by Jürgen Schweighart's experimental/electronic/d.i.y. project.

Original German edition on CBS of the 1983 New-Age/World crossover music by Swiss electro-acoustic harpist.

Original German edition on CBS of the 1984 New-Age/World crossover music by Swiss electro-acoustic harpist.

First volume of the Soul Jazz's superb introduction to experimental German rock and electronic Musik from 1971 to 1983, a 2013 2LP set featuring A.R. & Machines, Can, Roedelius, Michael Rother, Popol Vuh, Michael Hoenig, Agitation Free, D.A.F., Harald Grosskopf, Amon Düül II, Conrad Schnitzler & Wolf Sequenza, Bröselmaschine, Eno Moebius & Roedelius, Gila, Wolfgang Riechmann.

Second volume of the Soul Jazz's superb introduction to experimental German rock and electronic Musik from 1971 to 1983, a 2013 2LP set featuring A.R. & Machines, Gila, Neu!, Pyrolator, Sergius Golowin, You, Niagara, Popol Vuh, Rolf Trostel, Electric Sandwich, Asmus Tietchens, Faust.

Massive 1987 2LP ambient and electronic compilation on Klaus Schulze’s label, presenting New Age, Berlin School and synth-pop music by Kitaro, Software, Art Of Noise, David Sylvian, Mind Over Matter, Michael Hoppe, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Double Fantasy, Peter Seiler, Robert Schroeder, Peter Seiler, Megabyte, Mergener/Weisser.

Rare 2004 compilation documenting the German cassette-underground from 1980 to 1983, collecting tracks from obscure experimental/electronic/NDW/d.i.y. tapes by Vexierende Textur, Bill Bo, Frauen Von Avignon, Hans Kim + Die Schwarze Hand, Inex Tremis, Bodenpersonal, Die Unerträglichen, Tic Tric & Trac, Heute, Kanalwasserspaziergänger, Treibeis, Ich, Säurekeller.

2004 compilation released in 2004 by Vinyl-on-demand in an edition of 500 numbered copies, collecting tracks from obscure minimal electronic tapes orininally released from 1981 to 1983 by T.O.L.L., Porno-Graf, Geländeterror, Vorprogrammierte Zwangsneurose, Die Ratten, Potenzstörung '81.

Original Italian edition on Polydor of the first collaboration with beautiful music for piano and treatments, released as the second volume in the Ambient series in 1980.