Die Partei - "Strahlsund" (3:41)
Rolf Trostel - "Two Faces" (Bureau B edit) (4:18)
Michael Bundt - "Full Steam Ahead" (Bureau B edit) (3:49)
Moebius - "Etwas" (Bureau B edit) (2:57)
Populare Mechanik - "Scharfer Schnitt No 1" (2:36)
Roedelius - "Regenmacher" (Bureau B edit) (4:07)
Tyndall - "Grossstadtgefuhl" (3:32)
Conrad Schnitzler - "Bis Die Blaue Blume Bluht" (Bureau B edit) (4:04)
Phantom Band - "Pulsar" (4:03)
Bernd Kistenmacher - "Quitting Time" (Bureau B edit) (4:57)
Heiko Maile - "Nachtspaziergang (Tape 40)" (3:42)
Moebius & Plank - "News" (4:49)
Riechmann - "Weltweit" (Bureau B edit) (4:46)
Asmus Tietchens - "Trummerkopfe" (2:05)
Cluster - "Avanti" (Bureau B edit) (4:22)
Gunter Schickert - "Wanderer" (Bureau B edit) (4:27)
You - "Live Line" (Bureau B edit) (4:38)
Harald Grosskopf - "Emphasis" (4:57)
Eno Moebius Roedelius - "Base & Apex" (4:30)
Review: German record label Bureau B have compiled 70s and 80s German electro-punk, trance, breakbeat and more into the first volume of their Silberland series, a self-contained post-war world of counter-culture German underground that was on the bleeding-edge of sound. The avant-garde and floor-fillers collide in a showcase of collaborative spirit from the country at the time, trying to fill a cultural void that the war left. Expect cosmic synth passages, ritualistic electronic grooves in this delve into psychedelia expressed only in the metallic beeps and bumping bass of the Komische scene. It's cerebral and slightly uncanny in its thought-provoking approach that is crucially German, if not that of a Sega Mega Drive soundtrack.
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