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 roughcast tracks turn bedroom gear, cheap synths and tenor sax into a playful, futuristic minimal‑acid songbook.
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 songs on the idiosyncratic and fascinating universe of the imaginary trio. This has resulted in numerous cassettes, LP and CD releases. Most recently, a two-part retrospective was released in the spring of 2021 on Hamburg's Bureau B (, giving an insigh…
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 fantasy, surreal stories and dreamlike apparitions. All tracks have been remastered and the artwork has been lovingly crafted with the original Forscher drawings.Die Welttraumforscher is one of Switzerland’s most enigmatic musical projects, with a c…
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 fantasy, surreal stories and dreamlike apparitions. All tracks have been remastered and the artwork has been lovingly crafted with the original Forscher drawings.Die Welttraumforscher is one of Switzerland’s most enigmatic musical projects, with a c…
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‑like diary of a city thinking against meaning.
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 minimal synth severity brushes against the nascent shadows of synth‑pop.
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 harmonies and stark repetition feel like signals beamed from a haunted control room.
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 music as developed by Jon Hassell), New Age, eclectic pop tunes, music for dance or other stage projects, and soundtracks for TV productions. Wah-Wah Whispers focuses on Banabila's more recent output. It is a collection of works showcasing many facets of…
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 unnervingly beautiful.
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 shapes, while also composing wildly innovative electronic music as accompaniment.
After initially experimenting with musique concrète and tape manipulation (as demonstrated on the 1959 LP Choreosonic Music of the New Dance Theatre of Alwin Nikolais) Nik…
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 Dave Pike Set, Franz Hummel, Friedrich Gulda & Filharmonïja Zagreb, Parikh/Bellare, Madrigalchor Bukarest, Le Groupe Liturgique De Tunis, Surman/Phillips/El Mahdi/Ponty/Martin/Slama/Gruntz/Osman/Jouini/Fuchs and The Trio.
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.
Motherfuckers GmbH & Co KG (LP)
Very rare original edition on Ohr of the weirdest, most experimental, original and radical albums of Krautrock, released in 1972 but recorded in 1970, one of the essential masterpieces on the NWW list for whom it was a major influence.
Energie Für Alle (LP)
Very rare and obscure 1982 privately-released album of experimental minimal synthesizer music by Swiss keyboard player and producer.
Fünfzehn Tonspuren (LP)
Very rare and obscure Astrian compilation produced and released in 1984 by the Hochschule Für Angewandte Kunst in Wien with diverse experimental/electronic/NDW/minimal/free "acoustic materializations of 15 imaginary films/videos in the form of an LP" by artists appearing only here and including Hans Weigand, Gudrun Bielz, Lisi + Rose Breuss, Karl Kowanz, Tommy Schneider, Rupert Putz, Inge Graf + Zyx, Ebba Sinzinger + Anna Petschinka, Christina Brandauer + Ralph Ralph, Helmut Rainer, Gary Texas, …
Now I Imagine A Place Not The Same
Electric guitarist and composer David Torn announces "now i imagine a place not the same," an expansive new double LP out May 29 via Kou Records. Produced by Randall Dunn (Sunn O))), Thurston Moore), the album revisits the raw electricity of Torn’s early processing language while carrying it forward with the perspective of decades of exploration. Visceral yet weightless, it deepens his long-standing dialogue between alternate tunings, looping systems, and touch-sensitive electronics. Melody, noi…
That Porous Line
On That Porous Line, Push For Night dwell in the blur between song and atmosphere, trading in smudged hooks, low-lit textures and slow, pulsing tension where guitars, electronics and voice seep into one another instead of standing apart.