Electronic / Ambient

'Through the desert': Roedelius sets out on solitary electronic wandering. Spare, hypnotic keyboard figures and dry, shimmering textures conjure vast imaginary landscapes, early solo kosmische of quiet, questing beauty.

'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.

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.

A quiet meeting of minds. Roedelius and Schneider let delicate electronic and acoustic textures unfold over 'hours' of patient, meditative music: serene, spacious and gently kosmische throughout.

'Open doors'. Roedelius invites the listener into gentle, exploratory keyboard pieces, half-composed and half-dreamed. Warm, unhurried and melodically generous, the Cluster co-founder in intimate, searching mood.

'Happy moments', and it sounds it. Roedelius spins fragile, looping keyboard miniatures of great warmth and melodic grace, the gentler, sunlit side of the Cluster and Harmonia mastermind. Quietly radiant kosmische ambience.

'Ophio' pulses with widescreen, motorik grandeur. Die Wilde Jagd carry the krautrock and kosmische lineage into the present: hypnotic repetition, choral swells and cinematic build, drama drawn out over long, patient arcs.

One take, one hour, no overdubs. Moebius and Roedelius let a single improvisation unfurl in real time, gently evolving electronic tides, meditative and unforced. Late-period Cluster at its most patient and hypnotic.

Caught onstage in 1980, Cluster improvise an evening into long, mutating electronic landscapes. The duo's live telepathy in full flow, sequencers churning, textures blooming and dissolving. A vivid document of kosmische in real time.

Cluster's early-'80s farewell to their first era: shorter, gnarlier electronic vignettes, wry and rhythmic. 'Curiosum' finds Moebius and Roedelius at their most impish, sketching miniature worlds with battered analogue gear.

Moebius and Roedelius reconvene decades on, and the old telepathy holds. 'Apropos Cluster' drifts through supple electronic sketches, playful, warm and abstract at once, proof the duo's improvised chemistry never dimmed.

A lost transmission from Britain's early cassette network. Carl Matthews builds patient, meditative electronic drones and tape textures: homemade ambient minimalism of quiet conviction, rescued from the margins of the DIY underground.

The second Eno, Moebius and Roedelius summit. Brian Eno joins the Cluster duo for luminous ambient sketches and vocal pieces of eerie beauty, a keystone where British art-pop meets German kosmische, from the classic Sky Records era.

'Nocturnes' from Germany's great electronic miniaturist. Tietchens assembles short, enigmatic synthetic pieces, cool, disciplined and quietly unsettling, poised between pop structure and pure abstraction. Essential early Tietchens.

Tietchens at his most seductive. 'The fifth heaven' pairs the Hamburg sound-chemist's rigorous electronics with an unexpected melodic sweetness. Shifting synthetic textures, precise and strange: abstract music that still charms.

More deep-space synthesis from the reclusive cosmic voyager. Nordborg unfolds in patient, glacial layers of Moog and Mellotron: Berlin-school drift at its most oceanic and serene. A cult private-press artefact returned to CD.

Vast, weightless synthesizer vistas from the German cosmic underground. Von Deyen layers Moog and Mellotron into slow-drifting cloudscapes, poised between Berlin-school sequencing and pure ambience. A private-press reverie, on CD for the first time.

LP version. All the herbs have been smoked. Datashock deliver a new album: Geltungsbereich Universum. Their second for Bureau B and the eighth in a career as an internationally active collective of musicians which has spanned two decades (so far). Sp…

After Curiosum (BB 038CD/LP, 1981), the last Cluster album to be released on Sky, Roedelius and Moebius turned their attention to solo work. It was not until the early 1990s that Cluster returned to the electronic music stage with Apropos Cluster (BB…

Momentaufnahme II extends Faust’s recent excavation of their 1971–1974 archive, presenting a second volume of unheard and under‑heard material from the Wümme years. Compiled from recordings that didn’t make it onto the mammoth 1971–1974 (50 Years of …

As part of our series "Experimental Electronic Underground GDR", we are very pleased to be able to make a very special recording available again. On the evening of 3.9.1986, the privately announced and illegal concert took place in the Erlöserkirche …

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

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

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.

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.

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, P…

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.

First UK edition on Editions EG / Polydor of the second collaboration of ambient piano music by the duo together with producer Daniel Lanois, released in 1984.

Original US edition of the 1988 LP of beautiful ambient music on Opal Records.

Original Italian edition on EG of the superb 1980 experimental electronic/ambient/rock second solo album by King Crimson leader, featuring David Byrne.

Orig‌inal Italian edition on Virgin of the great 'dark ambient' electronic soundtrack from 1984.

Original Italian edition on Virgin of Japan's singer's first solo album of refined art-pop from 1984, featuring Can's Holger Czukay, Jon Hassell, YMO's Ryuichi Sakamoto, Mark Isham and fellow Japan Steve Jansen and Richard Barbieri.

Original Italian edition on Virgin/Venture of the collaboration between Japan's singer and Can's bass player and producer for a beautiful album of refined ambient music released in 1988, also featuring fellow Can Jaki Liebezeit.

Original Italian edition on Virgin/Venture of the collaboration between Japan's singer and Can's bass player and producer for a beautiful album of refined ambient music released in 1988, also featuring fellow Can Jaki Liebezeit.

2009 EP of very charming layered electro-acoustic ambient music released on Chalk's Faraway Press in an edition of 300 copies with unique cover artworks.

2013 vynil re-issue of a 2012 CDr with charming and evocative ambient music, released on Chalk's Faraway Press in an edition of 400 copies.