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The Psychedelic Side of Kosmische Musik. Fellow humans, Bureau B invite you on an expedition to Silberland, a singular span of spacetime created by Germany's sonic futurists of the seventies and eighties. Embracing the early electronics and tape experiments of the sixties avant-garde, these artists aimed to boldly go, eschewing small steps for giant leaps into a nebulous and novel sound. Their music depicted the dynamism, energy and movement of the era - celebrating modern technology as both the medium and the message. Brimming with fractal sequences and shimmering textures, gaze fixed firmly beyond the limits of possible, there were aesthetic echoes of the visual arts of the early twentieth century. But where the Italian futurists rejection of the past paved the way for fascism, the kosmische generation emerged from the revolutionary student movement of 67 and 68, opposing any lingering political ties to Nazism and occupying the cultural vacuum which endured long after the post-war era. Encompassing both better known and more obscure artists, this collection is a trip into the psychedelic and cerebral strain of this amorphous genre, pairing the pulsating and propulsive with moments of cosmic calm.
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Tracklist
1. Die Partei – Strahlsund
2. Rolf Trostel – Two Faces (bureau b edit)
3. Michael Bundt – Full Steam Ahead (bureau b edit)
4. Moebius – Etwas (bureau b edit)
5. Populäre Mechanik – Scharfer Schnitt No. 1
6. Roedelius – Regenmacher (bureau b edit)
7. Tyndall – Großstadtgefühl
8. Conrad Schnitzler – Bis die Blaue Blume blüht (bureau b edit)
9. Phantom Band – Pulsar
10. Bernd Kistenmacher – Quitting Time (bureau b edit)
11. Heiko Maile – Nachtspaziergang (Tape 40)
12. Moebius & Plank – News
13. Faust – Vorsatz
14. Riechmann – Weltweit (bureau b edit)
15. Asmus Tietchens – Trümmerköpfe
16. Cluster – Avanti (bureau b edit)
17. Günter Schickert – Wanderer (bureau b edit)
18. You – Live Line (bureau b edit)
19. Harald Grosskopf – Emphasis
20. Eno Moebius Roedelius – Base & Apex