Music from Germany

'Dreamland': more sunlit Berlin-school reverie from Tyndall. Interlocking sequencer patterns and glowing melody drift in gentle motion, private-press cosmic music of great warmth and innocence.

'Sunlight': Berlin duo Tyndall bathe their sequencers in warmth. Bright arpeggios and melodic synth lines glide through classic cosmic terrain, homemade German electronics of real charm, a cult reissue.

Trostel's sequencers turn contemplative. 'Two Faces' balances driving arpeggios with slower, reflective passages: melodic, precise cosmic music in the classic German mould. Quietly compelling analogue craftsmanship.

'Island music': Trostel maps a private electronic paradise. Warm sequencer motifs and glowing synth melody drift in unhurried loops, solitary, serene Berlin-school reverie from a cult German synthesist.

German synth mystic Rolf Trostel at the sequencer. 'Der Prophet' unfurls stately, hypnotic electronic patterns: solemn, melodic and deeply Berlin-school. A private-press cosmic gem returned to the light.

'Calling': more hushed, luminous keyboard music from the reborn Cluster lineage. Qluster let melodies surface slowly from analogue haze, patient, warm and quietly devotional. Ambient kosmische at its most human.

'Listening': Qluster distil their art to its essence. Soft analogue tones and slow, deliberate motion invite deep attention, chamber electronics of great tenderness from Roedelius and Onnen Bock.

'Questions', a companion in Qluster's quiet dialogue. Roedelius and Onnen Bock spin delicate, unhurried keyboard music, more felt than composed. Intimate, spacious and gently searching ambient kosmische.

Roedelius and Onnen Bock as Qluster: 'answers' in the form of hushed, exploratory electronics. Analogue keyboards drift through patient, chamber-like pieces, the Cluster spirit reborn, meditative and warm.

Kurt Dahlke's debut as Pyrolator. 'Inland' collides sequencers, tape and early synths in short, sharp electronic sketches: playful, political and DIY to the core. The inventive nerve-centre of Ata Tak and the NDW.

'Abroad': Pyrolator's imaginary world tour on synthesizer and tape. Kurt Dahlke maps invented territories in bright, restless electronics, witty, inventive and unmistakably Ata Tak. German new wave at its most curious.

The self-titled debut of Jaki Liebezeit's post-Can group. Motorik pulse meets echo, dub and electronic haze: loose, driving and deeply hypnotic. Krautrock's rhythmic genius stretching out on his own terms.

Can drummer Jaki Liebezeit's own vehicle. Phantom Band ride his inexhaustible groove into dubwise, hypnotic krautrock: spacious, propulsive and endlessly funky. Rhythm as pure hypnosis, from one of the great German drummers.

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.

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.

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.

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.

'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.

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.

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.