Two years have passed since the successful release of the first " Sowas von egal " compilation. " Sowas von egal " is a collaboration between the Hamburg record label Bureau B and the Hamburg party series Damaged Goods where they present rare, obscure synth & wave discs from the early 1980s which absolutely...

The 2017 album " Sammlung " compiled by Stefan Schneider first introduced a selection of previously little known exponents of 1980's Dusseldorf electronic tape music to a stunned audience. A further remarkable example of the Dusseldorf underground tape output, 1986s " Singende Draehte " originally circulated...

Seventeen years on from his last solo release, the twenty-five tracks collected on Chris Carter 's " Chemistry Lessons Volume One" CCCL Volume 1 were the product of six years spent working on solo material in the Norfolk home studio he shares with Cosey Fanni Tutti . CCCL Volume 1 reinforces Carter 's...

A 14-track expertly curated compilation of blindspot gems from the " Worldwide New-Wave, Post-Punk and Industrial Underground 1978-1984 " picked up and spat out by London's venerated Cherrystones . A killer compilation for both the insatiable digger and curious psych-o-naut alike, it starts at the fringe...

Strut present an exclusive new compilation curated by Optimo s JD Twitch , " Kreaturen Der Nacht ", bringing together classics, rarities and oddities from Germany s original post-punk and independent scene from 1979 to 1985. This was an era of particular artistic upheaval in Germany; emphasis was placed...

Unless you are a monomaniacal specialist of the 80's, there is very little chance that Cha Cha Guitry will ring any bell. And yet this band, buried away in Saint-Etienne at the very heart of France could have rivalled easily with Elli & Jacno or Telex.Emblematic of that French touch which tinged new-wave...

Bourbonese Qualk were an experimental music group from England who where active from 1979 until 2003. The group were always obsessively and uncompromisingly focused on controlling their work they ran their own record label, recording studio, tour organisation and music venue (the legendary " Ambulance...

The last recorded album at their South London squat, " The Ambulance Station " on the Old Kent Road, and again released on their own Recloose Organisation , saw the band develop further beyond the limits of the post-punk / industrial scene where genres increasingly became redundant. Ethno, jazz, funk...

The Nigel Ayers-led industrial pioneers have much in common with their better-known peers Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire, and seemed to arrive at similar innovations in recorded sound and performance almost simultaneously and independently. Unlike both, Nocturnal Emissions have survived as an...

Do not adjust your sets. Take a step back from the tracking. This is the sound of Germany's musical youth let loose on cheap synths and pawnshop guitars. A record of a disparate scene of squat pop-stars, art-school upstarts and committed non-musicians who redefined German music in the first half of the...

It gives us immense pleasure to present this very special release: " Kiosque Of Arrows 2 " is Detlef Weinrich's a.k.a. Tolouse Low Trax first compilation for Bureau B . Echoing the spirit of the legendary samplers found on Les Disques Du Crépuscule or Made To Measure , this hybrid journal not only collates...

Patrick Cowley was one of the most revolutionary and influential figures in the canon of electronic dance music. Born in Buffalo, NY on October 19th 1950, Patrick moved to San Francisco in 1971 to study electronic music at the City College of San Francisco. By the late '70s, Patrick's synthesizer techniques...