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Ignore the Machine
*Front cover is always a unique print/passpartout* "A new duo from Berlin. By and featuring Hanno Leichtmann and Nils Ostendorf. Both are seasoned musicians with eventful careers who operate within very different artistic spheres. One of them, Hanno …
Second Skin (1975-1983)
Corbett vs. Dempsey is honored to present the first comprehensive compilation of the music of Jon Waine, culled and curated from original 1970s/80s master tapes, home recordings, and rehearsal documentation, featuring provocative and legendary artist…
SIC
On SIC, Nurse With Wound and Aranos construct a cold, roaring ambient symphony from metallic percussion, numbing drones and disembodied voices. Long unavailable on vinyl, this edition restores a quietly menacing work where sound sculpture and slow-mo…
Rough and tumble
Althoff, the master of kinetic sound sculpture, returns to machines for a new offering of textured compositions. Knowing that I used these items for music-making, a friend recently gave me a large old aluminium pot lid with a beautifully flanged edge…
Sahkomies
On Sähkömies, Jimi Tenor fuses lo‑fi drum‑machine electronics with smoky, Sun Ra‑indebted jazz, announcing himself as techno’s first cabaret surrealist. Recorded alone in a New York apartment and released on Sähkö/Puu in 1994, the album’s eight rough…
Liederbuch
LP version. When the Welttraumforscher (world dream explorer) started their journey on July 14, 1981, it was not foreseeable that it would last so long. For over 40 years now, Christian Pfluger from Zurich has been working with drawings, texts and so…
Wir Arbeiten Fur Die Nachste Welt (1991-2012)
This first Bureau B retrospective devoted to Die Welttraumforscher covers the Swiss project's early creative period from 1981 to 1990. The eccentric, heartwarming pop songs now sound like documents from a parallel world, interwoven with idiosyncratic…
Die Rückkehr der echten Menschheit 1981-1990
This first Bureau B retrospective devoted to Die Welttraumforscher covers the Swiss project's early creative period from 1981 to 1990. The eccentric, heartwarming pop songs now sound like documents from a parallel world, interwoven with idiosyncratic…
War Pur War
On War Pur War, Frieder Butzmann and Thomas Kapielski distill West‑Berlin’s 1980s absurdism into a Dada‑charged clash of electro‑pop and sonic collage. Minimal synth patterns, spoken fragments and everyday noises tangle into a wry, musique‑concrète‑l…
Magazin Frivole
On Magazin Frivole, Serge Blenner pushes his cold, concise analogue synth instrumentals toward a subtly pop‑inflected edge. Dark harmonies and clipped electronic patterns intertwine with clearer song structures, yielding an early‑80s blueprint where …
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La Vogue
On La Vogue, Serge Blenner distills early-80s anxieties into dark, monotone synthesizer miniatures. Minimal Berlin‑school pulses and crystalline melodic “phrases” sketch an electronic soundtrack to Cold War Germany, where somber patterns, pop‑tinged …
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Wah​-​Wah Whispers
Ever since he released his music in the early '80s, Michel Banabila has been hard to pinpoint to a specific genre or style. His musical output includes jazz, experimental cut-up electronics, world music (especially influenced by the Fourth World musi…
Locked
Exclusive Bad Sector tape release for his live-gig at XXI Congresso Post Industriale.
War Poem
On War Poem, Chris Connelly turns antique tape machines into artillery: a single, accidental loop blooms into side‑long, grief‑stricken immersion, where scorched industrial sonics and stark anti‑war outrage fuse into something brutally intense and un…
Planes (LP)
Rare original 1974 edition of the privately released obscure album of brooding electronic music in early Kluster vein.
Electronic Dance Music, 1966-1989
Often credited as the father of multi-media theatre, Alwin Nikolais (1910-1993) took complete creative control over his productions - including cutting-edge approaches to lighting and costume that transformed human bodies into shifting sculptural sha…
Ossiach Live 1971 (2CD)
Rare 1994 2CD re-issue on Four Aces Records of the 1971 3LP set documenting a wild festival of jazz/rock/fusion/free/electronic/ethnic music with exclusive live tracks by Tangerine Dream and Anima as well as Weather Report, O.M. Zykan Ensemble, The D…
Fallersleben (LP)
2004 EP on Vinyl-on-demand in an edition of 250 numbered copies with poster signed by Wolfgang Muller, with 1981 recordings by the experimental/NDW performance art and music group.
Strudelsölle (6LP box)
2004 6LP box set on Vinyl-on-demand (their first release) re-issuing the first six tapes from the early 1980's by the experimental/NDW performance art and music group.
Bye Bye (LP)
Original Canadian version (with track-list and title different from the European version) of the second album by NDW/post-punk minimal pop band, released by Mercury in 1983.