Issue 142 (Magazine + 7", Clear)
Electronic Sound issue 142 puts Faust on the cover, with a cover story on the four albums released on the same day by the band's four surviving original members, bundled with an exclusive clear vinyl seven-inch EP, Four From Faust, one track from each album.
Kosmische Psychédélique (Motorik, Astral and Avant-Garde Musik from Deutschland and Beyond 1970-2025)
Two-Piers' Psychédélique series lands in Kosmische Musik: La Düsseldorf, Neu!, Harmonia, Cluster, Schulze, Faust, Guru Guru, Tangerine Dream and Cosmic Jokers, then the heirs, from Boards of Canada and Tortoise to Beak>.
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Echo Neuklang (Neo-Kraut-Sounds 1981 – 2023)
A map of the new German cosmic underground. 'Echo Neuklang' gathers neo-kraut, kosmische and motorik sounds across four decades: a generation carrying the Cluster and Neu! lineage forward, sequencers humming into the present.
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France's electronic guitar visionary. The Heldon founder folds searing, delay-treated guitar into churning synthetic drift: heavy, hypnotic and cosmic, where krautrock momentum meets sci-fi menace. Pinhas at full intensity.
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.
Ophio
'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.
Zero Set
A summit of German sonic royalty: producer Conny Plank, Guru Guru drummer Mani Neumeier and Cluster's Moebius. 'Zero Set' is muscular, percussive electronic funk, dubwise, propulsive and years ahead. A krautrock supergroup in the studio.
Cluster 71
The abrasive, epochal debut. Moebius and Roedelius push organ, guitar and homemade electronics through banks of effects into three untitled slabs of proto-ambient drift. Year zero for German electronic music, still startling fifty years on.
Momentaufnahme II
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 Faust) eight‑LP box, this collection functions not as an outtakes bin but as a parallel narrative: how Faust sounded when the tape kept rolling between “official” takes, and how their anarchic, avant‑rock mission permeated even the most fragmentary e…
Release the Beast
Release the Beast marks CV Vision’s sixth studio album and his most gleefully hybrid statement to date, a follow‑up to Im Tal der Stutzer that turns genre fusion into its main organising principle. Rooted in an adventurous krautrock spirit, Berlin‑based Denis Schulze (CV Vision) treats psych rock, Detroit techno, distorted synthesizers, black metal and library music not as separate territories but as colours on the same palette. The record unfolds as a wild, cross‑style trip where meandering gui…
Im Tal der Stutzer
You might've caught CV Vision in Berlin, either on stage or behind the mixer at some of his favourite clubs like Arkaoda, Heiners or O Tannenbaum. He could be accompanied by synths, or drum kit, or even full band – channelling his love of Bo Hansson and Claude Larson, or Soft Machine and Picchio dal Pozzo. Always heavy on the backbeat, the songs awash with heady synths and expansive psych inversions. Taking inspiration from deep in the mediaeval mists of times long past, CV Vision comes riding o…
Post Purgatory
Formed in Taipei in 2013, Scattered Purgatory (破地獄) has occupied a liminal space between drone, ambient, psychedelic folk and ritualistic kosmiche experimentation. Their early work, including ‘Lost Ethnography of the Miscanthus Ocean’ (2014) and ‘God of Silver Grass’ (2016), blended dense instrumental drones, improvisational guitar, and ambient textures rooted in the heat, humidity, and urban pulse of Taiwan. Over the years, the duo-turned-band has drawn on Krautrock, minimalist electronic music…
Movies (LP)
Original German edition on Harvest/EMI of the excellent 1979 debut solo album by Can's bassist and producer, featuring fellow band members Irmin Schmidt and Michael Karoli.
Я Твой Слуга Я Твой Работник (2LP)
Rare unofficial 2LP set released in 1987 with folded poster cover with a recording of the live show in München on June 12, 1981.
Seligpreisung (LP)
Original Italian edition on PDU of the fourth album of very original meditative Eastern-tinged krautrock. NWW list.
Einsjaeger & Siebenjaeger
Original Italian quadraphonic edition on PDU of the lovely meditative LP from 1975. NWW list.
Momenti Felici (LP)
Original UK edition on Venture of the 1987 album of lovely piano/ambient music by Kluster/Cluster member and krautrock pillar.
Rot (CD)
First 1997 CD re-issue on Plate Lunch of the wild electronic first album from 1973 former Tangerine Dream / Kluster memember and one of the most peculiar and adventurous electronic explorers of the German scene.