Trans Harmonic Nights
Baumann's brightest solo record. 'Trans Harmonic Nights' sets crisp sequencer motifs against warm melody: the Berlin-school grammar sharpened into concise, luminous electronic pop. Tangerine Dream's pop instinct, distilled.
Romance 76
The Tangerine Dream man's debut solo statement. 'Romance 76' splits between pulsing electronic sequences and orchestral romanticism: lush, melodic and forward-looking. A landmark of the Berlin school stepping toward song.
Nightfall
Tangerine Dream's keyboardist in solo flight. 'Nightfall' glides on elegant sequencer patterns and widescreen synth melody: the Berlin-school aesthetic at its most polished and songful. Cosmic music with a pop pulse.
Another other places
An unlikely trio: Cluster's Moebius, Guru Guru's Mani Neumeier and Die Krupps' Jürgen Engler. 'Another Other Place' grinds electronics, percussion and industrial edge into taut, exploratory grooves, three generations of German sound in dialogue.
Electri City
Cosmic bass explorer Michael Bundt goes fully electronic. 'Electri City' rides propulsive sequences and interstellar synth sweep: Berlin-school motion with a rock heart, a lost gem of German space music returned.
The Sum Of Our Wounds (Cassette Recordings 1973-85)
Rev's earliest experiments unearthed: cassette recordings, 1973-85. Skeletal drum-machine pulse, raw keyboard drones and proto-Suicide menace, the primordial ooze of minimal electronics, captured as it first formed.
Martin Rev
The first solo record from Suicide's synth architect. Rev strips everything to skeletal drum-machine pulse and cheap-keyboard melody, at once brutal and strangely tender. A foundational document of minimal synth.
Les Nymphes
Martin Rev turns to reverie. 'Les Nymphes' drifts through delicate, looping electronic tone-poems: melodic, meditative and unadorned. The Suicide co-founder in intimate, luminous solo flight.
Clouds of Glory
Rev at his most beatless and beatific. 'Clouds of Glory' floats on cheap-keyboard hymns and shimmering repetition: devotional, lo-fi and strangely sublime. The gentlest, most transporting corner of the Suicide man's solo world.
Cheyenne
Suicide's synth architect goes solo and lyrical. 'Cheyenne' trades menace for melody: bright, looping keyboard motifs and toy-box rhythm, naïve and radiant. Minimal electronics with an unexpectedly tender heart.
Banzai: Elektronische Musik aus Berlin 1985/87
'Electronic music from Berlin, 1985-87.' Lapre's private-press sequencer explorations glide through classic Berlin-school terrain: pulsing arpeggios, cosmic pads and patient build. A cult synth artefact rescued from obscurity.
I Need A Slow
From the Liaisons Dangereuses nucleus: Krishna Goineau's sleek, sensual electronic body-pop. Taut sequencer grooves and cool vocals blur EBM, synth-pop and dancefloor tension. Düsseldorf's underground at its most seductive.
Off the Record
The ex-Kraftwerk composer opens his notebook. 'Off the Record' reworks decades of unused sketches into pristine electro-pop: hooks honed to a gleam, machine-precise yet warmly melodic. Düsseldorf craftsmanship, quietly personal.
Communication
The former Kraftwerk man's sharpest solo statement, turning the man-machine aesthetic on media overload: crisp electro-pop hooks, cool precise synthesis, melodic and ironic. The Düsseldorf pop tradition intact.
The Awakening Dream
A Dutch composer's private synthesizer odyssey, 1977. Andriessen conjures a 'trance symphony' on Minimoog and Rhodes: luminous, minimal and quietly euphoric, drawing on Berlin and Düsseldorf electronics rather than the concert hall.
Sahkomies
Finland's cosmic showman in early form. 'Sähkömies' pairs cheap analogue gear with sci-fi imagination: lo-fi electro, wonky disco and space-jazz leanings, all delivered with Jimi Tenor's singular deadpan charm. Homemade futurism.
Demo Tapes 1984-86 (LP)
Before Camouflage: teenage demo tapes, 1984-86, from synth-pop craftsman Heiko Maile. Bedroom sequencers and bright melodic hooks capture a gifted talent forming, a charming, revealing document of German synth-pop in the making.
Synthesist (40th Anniversary Edition)
A cornerstone of German cosmic music. Ashra and Klaus Schulze drummer Harald Grosskopf steps out solo, wedding propulsive live drums to shimmering sequencer bliss. 'Synthesist' is euphoric Berlin-school pop: melodic, driving, timeless.