With Attack Time’ by sound tinkerer Zeus B. Held, Bureau B is re-releasing one of the most exciting records of the original experimental Kraut-pop period. After various stints, including prog band Birth Control and underground dance tipple Gina X Performance, he also put out a string of solo releases. ’Attack Time’, originally released on Aladin in 1981, gave Zeus B. Held the opportunity to experiment sonically outside the mainstream and subversively undermine the hegemonic MTV sound of the early 1980s. Unfortunately, the album was a commercial failure at the time. So it’s all the nicer that it’s now being brought out into the world again with all its supposed contradictions between enraptured New Wave, cosmic electronics and weird rock grooves.
2023 reissue with printed inner sleeve with liner notes. Back cover states: Originally released in 1981 on CBS. (P)+(C) 2023 bureau b. all rights reserved. Recorded and mixed at Sound Experience, Cologne, Dec. 1979 - March 1980, May 1981. Track durations as printed on release. Track B1 the original songwriters were not credited. Zeus & Kikoine would later cover the song officially in 1984. The info about CBS on the sleeve is incorrect: the original LP was released on Aladin, only the distribution was by CBS.
