Name: Silberland Vol 2 - The Driving Side Of Kosmische Musik 1974-1984
Brand: Various

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BB414LP

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Black

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2023-06-16

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Shellshock

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BB414

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Various

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Krautrock

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Bureau B

Bureau B is an independent record label, music publisher, and booking agency based in Hamburg, Germany. Founded in 2005 by Gunther Buskies as a sister label to Tapete Records, Bureau B specializes in releasing a diverse range of electronic and avant-garde music. With a focus on reissues and new productions, the label has built an extensive catalogue that includes iconic albums from the Krautrock genre of the 1970s and early 1980s. They also release recordings by influential artists such as Die Wilde Jagd, Kreidler, Toulouse Low Trax, and more.

Known for their commitment to preserving classic electronic music, Bureau B has been rereleasing albums from renowned artists like Cluster, Faust, Moebius, Roedelius, Plank, Schickert Schnitzler Tietchens Tyndall. In addition to these reissues, they also release works by similar artists including Blenner Heldon Pinhas Rev or NDW Plan Pyrolator.

With their impressive catalogue and dedication to promoting innovative music across various genres within the electronic spectrum - from pop to avant-garde - Bureau B continues to be a prominent force in the global music industry. Their contributions have solidified them as an authoritative figure in the world of independent labels.

Welcome to Silberland - where the streets are paved with strobes.  Home to neon lights, straight lines and open roads, this futurist fantasy  was first founded in the mid-seventies, when Germany’s creative class  chose musical therapy in order to indulge their shared hallucination of a  new Europe. Fuelled by the catalytic fusion of globalisation and new  technology, the world was turning ever faster and the kosmische  generation were ready to keep the pace. With synthesisers, rhythm  computers and human metronomes turned to a gallop, these electronic  innovators set modernity to a motorik beat, and Bureau B’s second trip  into Silberland cuts right to the thrust of the genre.        The set begins with the propulsive opener from Harald Grosskopf’s 1986  LP Oceanheart, in which pristine sequences play in counterpoint atop a  mechanical kick, hurtling forward until the rest of the kit catches up. Live  drums take centre stage for Cluster’s feverish “Prothese” and the time  travelling “Elektroklang” by Conrad Schnitzler, which foreshadows  industrial and techno innovations while maintaining a primal punch. You  offer astral ascension on “Son Of A True Star”, weaving proggy square  waves and pulsating arps around an irresistible shuffle from mysterious  percussionist Lhan Gopal (Grosskopf in disguise), before the optimistic  “Für Dich” fuses classic kosmische chords with Thomas Dinger’s  pummelling beat. Asmus Tietchens’ detuned keys and drum machine  samba are imbued with a punk spirit shared by Moebius Plank  Neumeier’s discordant jazz-tanz jam “Search Zero”.

Tracktitel  01. Harald Grosskopf - Eve On The Hill (bureau b edit)  02. Cluster - Prothese  03. Conrad Schnitzler - Elektroklang  04. You - Son Of A True Star (bureau b edit)  05. Thomas Dinger - Für Dich (bureau b edit)  06. Asmus Tietchens - Bockwurst á la Maîtresse  07. Moebius Plank Neumeier - Search Zero (bureau b edit)  08. Heiko Maile - Beat For Ikutaro (Tape 52) (bureau b edit)  09. Lapre - Flokati (bureau b edit)  10. Adelbert Von Deyen - Time Machine  11. Günter Schickert - Puls (bureau b edit)  12. Faust - Juggernaut  13. Moebius &amp; Plank - Feedback 66 (bureau b edit)  14. Roedelius - Band 068 3 Bock auf Rock (nicht verwendetes Stück)  15. Serge Blenner - Phonique  16. Moebius &amp; Beerbohm - Subito  17. Tyndall - Wolkenlos (bureau b edit)  18. Pyrolator - 180°  19. Die Partei - Guten Morgen in Köln  20. Deutsche Wertarbeit - Auf Engelsflügeln (bureau b edit)

Silberland Vol 2 - The Driving Side Of Kosmische  Musik 1974-1984

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