FEBRUARY 2010

NINCA LEECE's pop électronique
debut album OUT NOW

Watch out for the new Franco-German pop électronique by Ninca Leece! "There Is No One Else When I Lay Down And Dream" is the title of her debut album which is available NOW. Ninca is a singer, a songwriter, a producer, and a musician at the same time. And she explores the facets of electronic pop music in all their variations. Her music mixes a resolute pop approach to an experimental sound process witch glitch, clicks & cuts, dreamlike melodies and fairy elements, using voices, synthesizing, sound design, layerings, acoustic instruments along with electronic sounds/devices and field recordings. It's simply magnifique!

Read more here (PDF) in English / Deutsch

Music samples: Tourist / Funny Symphony / Lovesong / Tattoo / Top Of The World /

Watch the video of her single "On Top Of The World" here

ROEDELIUS Wenn der Südwind weht
OUT NOW

"Where on earth does Roedelius find such a beautiful array of notes?" wonders Asmus Tietchens in his sleeve notes for this reissue. Not an unreasonable question. "Music to be heard softly" is Roedelius' advice on the back cover. That is all you have to know about this tranquil and peaceful work (a.k.a. "Selbstportrait IV") from one of the inventors of ambient music. "When der Südwind weht" (When the south wind is blowing) comes as digipak or 180g vinyl.

JANUARY 2010

MOEBIUS – Tonspuren OUT NOW

By 1969 at the latest, Dieter Moebius was synonymous with the avant-garde electronic music scene in Germany. Alongside his bands Kluster/Cluster and Harmonia, he participated in numerous collaborations (with the likes of Brian Eno and Mani Neumeier/Guru Guru). Somehow, it took Moebius until 1983 to release his own solo debut album, "Tonspuren". It features meticulously fabricated pearls of electronic music with a sense of pop melody. On CD and 180g vinyl. Pure and brillant.

NOVEMBER 2009

Cinematic rock soundscapes from Sweden
HEARTS NO STATIC's debut OUT NOW

This beautiful, majestic, dark, melancholic mix of ambient music, post/drone/kraut/epic rock will blow your mind! Hearts No Static are a instrumental three piece from Stockholm and release their debut album on Bureau B. Their music evokes pictures of deep forests, dark seas, and stirring coastal scenery. Every now and then a wall of sound shakes you up – and then there's beautiful silence again. Don't miss this unique "painting with sound" experience

Read more here: English / German

Music samples: Lowlands / HoveringPt.1 / Fashion Death / Motif / Wastelands

KRAUTROCK SUPER GROUP
"Zero Set" reissue out now!

A must-have for every krautrock fan: Dieter Moebius (Cluster, Harmonia), Mani Neumeier (Guru Guru) and the legendary sound engineer Conny Plank recorded this dark electronic "motorik" monster in 1982. ZERO SET comes as digipak or 180g vinyl with an essay by electronic music pioneer Asmus Tietchens and rare photos.

Read more here: English / German

Music samples: Speed Display / Pitch Control / Load / All Repro

Très chic: MARY ROOS IN FRENCH
OUT NOW

"Mary Roos is the German Dionne Warwick" says TV-Star and music expert Götz Alsmann. We think, he's absolutely right. In the early 70s Mary recorded two albums and various singles in Paris. She was the star of the French Jet Set Musique. Our CD Amour Toujours. The French Song Collection 1972–1975 features the best songs of that period, 18 songs are on CD for the first time. Catchy, happy tunes sung by a great chanteuse.

Read more here: English / German

Music samples: L'autoroute / Goutte Goutte / Quand On Fait La Musique / N'oublie pas lorsque tu chantes"

OCTOBER 2009

FEHLFARBEN, MICHAEL ROTHER
Two new old vinyl singles OUT NOW

Bureau B did it again. After rereleasing four vinyl singles about a year ago (Harmonia, La Düsseldorf, Palais Schaumburg) we serve up a second helping of 7 inch singles, mastered from the original tapes and re-released with original artwork. Once again we have selected two paragons of German creativity: The debut single of Michael Rother (Kraftwerk, NEU!, Harmonia) as a solo artist, and the most successful single of Germany's seminal post punk band Fehlfarben (from 1982).

Michael Rother's instrumental track "Flammende Herzen" (from 1977) is the ultimate feel-good anthem of the 1970s – majestic harmonies woven from Rother's unique guitar style. On the drums: Jaki Liebezeit (Can), at the mixing desk: Conny Plank.

"Ein Jahr (Es geht voran)" is Fehlfarben's biggest commercial hit by some distance. Although it was already featured on their 1980's debut album their record label EMI released it as a single not until 1982 to make money out of the NDW (German New Wave) hype.

Read more here: English / German

SEPTEMBER 2009

Two milestones of ambient music by
ENO & CLUSTER (MOEBIUS/ROEDELIUS)
OUT NOW

It is with great pride, that Bureau B presents two milestones of ambient music on vinyl (180g) and CD (Digipak) with linernotes by electronic music pioneer Asmus Tietchens. In the year 1977 the three like-minded musicians Brian Eno, Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius met in the broad landscape of the German Weserbergland and brought together their creativity. The music they then recorded in the studio of Conny Plank was called ambient music later. The two albums that are being reissued ("Eno Moebius Roedelius – After The Heat"; "Cluster & Eno") mark the emergence of a new music genre.

Read more here: English / Deutsch

Music samples: (AFTER THE HEAT:) Shade / Belldog / Base & Apex / Oil / (CLUSTER & ENO:) Die Bunge / Schöne Hände / Ho Renomo / Für Luise

AUGUST 2009

LIKE A STUNTMAN
Original Bedouin Culture
OUT NOW

What a record! This is pop music of the next generation. Everybody loves LIKE A STUNTMAN. Finally you can find out for yourself, why the critics are so enthusiastic. ORIGINAL BEDOUIN CULTURE is "record of the week" at the internet radio station Byte.fm as well as at the Zündfunk radio show. The most important international indie music magazine Pitchfork.com wrote their music "is equal parts the Notwist and Animal Collective, pulsing with rhythmic energy and bursting with overlapping vocals." Buy this great record on CD or 180 gram vinyl. Read more here: English / Deutsch
Sound-Samples: On Repetition We Are / No Tundra No Sun / Fake Beards/Our Hands Sweat / Wake Up William Blake

CAMOUFLAGE – Spice Crackers
2 CD reissue OUT NOW

This 2 CD reissue of the 1995 album ist the most atypical work of the world-reknowned German electropop band. Especially the bonus CD (11 tracks previously unreleased) unveils the hypnotic, psychedelic talent of Camouflage. "Spice Crackers" reflect the finest in 90's electronics (dub techno, downbeat, electronica, intelligent dance music, ambient), evoking memories of the golden age of German electronic creativity, the 1970s.
Read more here: English / Deutsch
Sound Samples: Kraft / X-Ray / Liberation (Bonus) / Spacetrain (Bonus)

FREE MP3:

We have a great high quality MP3 download for you here. This "special edit" of the track "Back To Heaven" has been on a very rare promo CD 1995 and is not included on our reissue.

See also the Camouflage homepage for further informations, for example an interview with Heiko Maile on this reissue: www.camouflage-music.com

THE 39 CLOCKS – Pain It Dark
CD reissue OUT NOW

Bureau B proudly presents: the debut album of "the best German band of the eighties" (German pop scholar Diedrich Diederichsen). The 39 Clocks cultivated a heavy accent and invented the Original Psycho Beat: futuristic, hypnotic 60s psychedelia with a beatbox deferred to the early 80s. The CD reissue contains one previously unreleased track and is finally available after 28 years. It comes as a digipak with a fat booklet featuring liner notes by Alfred Hilsberg and many rare photos. Read more here: English / Deutsch / Linernotes. Listen to the unique sound of the Clocks: Shake The Hippie / Psycho Beat / DNS / Stupid Art

ROEDELIUS – Durch die Wüste
OUT NOW

The first solo effort of Hans-Joachim Roedelius, veteran and pioneer of the Krautrock scene (Cluster, Harmonia). Recorded 1978 with legendary sound smith Conny Plank. Back then fans of electronica awaited the LP with particular anticipation, as the founding member of Cluster had played a major role in the development of synthesizer music. They were in for a shock, however, as "Durch die Wüste" turned out to be anything but an electronic album; in the avant-garde landscape of popular music, the Roedelius record was a beacon of innovation, with failure a distinct possibility. Ultimately, Roedelius would not fail with the LP, instead laying down a trail that more and more listeners would follow in the future.
Read more: English / Deutsch
Sound samples: Durch die Wüste / Regenmacher / Johanneslust / Glaubersalz

FUNKY FRÄULEINS – OUT NOW

Watch out! The Funky Fräuleins are coming over us! (See cover on the right.) Groove girls, beat queens, disco divas and funky fräuleins ask you for a dance: Female beat, groove, disco, funk in Germany 1968–1978. Check these fräuleins out: Topsy Küppers, Su Kramer, Marianne Mendt, Heidi Brühl, Heidelinde Weis, Roberta Kelly, Vicky Leandros, Olivia Molina, Hildegard Knef, Evelyn Künnecke, Peggy March, Sandra Haas, Jane Morel, Renate Kern, Caterina Valente, Shirley Thompson, Marianne Rosenberg, Lotte und Leherb. Great grooves, great fun!
Read the booklet /. Read more: English / Deutsch
Listen to the funky fräuleins: Topsy Küppers / Su Kramer / Heidelinde Weis / Sandra Haas

FAUST at Avantgarde Festival

Members of FAUST will be playing at the 6th AVANTGARDE FESTIVAL (28-30 August) in Schiphorst (which is close to Hamburg/Luebeck)!

JULY 2009

Riechmann – Wunderbar. OUT NOW!

Bureau B unearthed one of the best kept secrets of German electronic music. Wolfgang Riechmann’s album „Wunderbar“ from 1978 contains elements of the Berlin School (Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze) and of the Düsseldorf School (Kraftwerk, La Düsseldorf, NEU!), and yet has hypnotic, spheral qualities all of its own. This album, however, is beautiful and tragic in equal measure, as Wolfgang Riechmann fell victim to a knife attack just three weeks before the LP went on sale. He was stabbed in the chest in a chance encounter with a drunk in Düsseldorf’s Altstadt, the perpetrator “letting off steam” after a dispute with the landlord of his local pub, as he later recounted in court. With this reissue we take our hats off to Wolfgang Riechmann.
(Read more: English / Deutsch)

Sound-Samples: Weltweit / Himmelblau / Wunderbar / Silberland

JULY 2009

Cluster – Grosses Wasser. OUT NOW!

This legendary German electronic/ambient work from Dieter Moebius (right) and Hans-Joachim Roedelius (left) comes as a high-value Digipak or 180 gram vinyl, both including rare photos and informative liner notes by Cluster's companion Asmus Tietchens.
(Read more: English / Deutsch)

Sound-Samples: Grosses Wasser / Breitengrad / Avanti / Isodea

JUNE 2009

BUREAU B reissues SKY gems

SKY records is one of the most respected labels of German avantgarde/krautrock and ambient music. Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Dieter Moebius, Conny Plank, Michael Rother ? all these artists released records on this Hamburg based label. SKY records was founded 1975 by Günter Körber after he quit his work for the world-renowed German BRAIN label, which he also founded (together with Bruno Wendel) four years before.

When Körber left BRAIN he managed to take some important artists with him, Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius (Cluster) for example. At that time they worked together with the british music eccentric Brian Eno. Two albums emerged from this collaboration on SKY records – both essential ambient/avantgarde works.

Bureau B reissues more than 20 of the most exciting SKY albums on CD and on 180 g heavy vinyl – all include rare photos and liner notes by Asmus Tietchens (also an important electronic music pioneer who released on SKY).

Along with the "established" artists we also release some hidden gems like Wolfgang Riechmann's album "Wunderbar" – electronic music that combines the best of the two important german electronic music scenes Berlin (Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze etc.) and Düsseldorf (Kraftwerk, NEU! etc.).

Our first three releases are:

CLUSTER - GROSSES WASSER / June 26th
(Read more: English / Deutsch)

RIECHMANN - WUNDERBAR / July 24th
(Read more: English / Deutsch)

HANS-JOACHIM ROEDELIUS - DURCH DIE WÜSTE / August 14th
(Read more: English / Deutsch)

Click here to read this press release in German

JUNE 2009

Esther Ofarim in London

Brand new on CD and vinyl: Moving songs sung by the most beautiful voice in pop/folk music. Produced by Bob Johnson, the man who also produced Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Johnny Cash, and many more. Recorded 1972 in London, released on CD for the first time, includes one previously unreleased track, and an exclusive interview with Esther Ofarim. Breathtaking!
(Read more: English / Deutsch)

Sound-Samples: Gnostic Serenade / Waking Up / Jerusalem / Hey That's No Way To Say Goodbye