Guten Tag, this is Bureau B
Free 'best of' compilation from the German label Bureau B, includes tracks from Conrad Schnitzler, Faust and Karl Bartos
For eMusic subscribers only, German record label Bureau B, who release past and future classics from a range of electronic genres, are giving away a twenty track selection entitled Guten Tag, this is Bureau B. Encompassing everything between Cosmic and Ambient to Synth-pop and Krautrock, there's certainly a lot to like.
Karl Bartos offers his superb Kraftwerkian track Rhythmus, from his 2013 album Off The Record. There's abstract and experimental sounds in tracks like Pastoral from Lloyd Cole & Hans-Joachim Roedelius (taken from their collaborative album Selected Studies Vol. 1) and modern-era Faust's dirge Herbststimmung (from their 2010 album Something Dirty). Balancing things somewhat there's 'indie' style pop from Camera and something for the dancefloor with Pyrolator's Hamtramck. And of course there some 'classics' in the form of Himmelblau from Riechmann's 1978 album Wunderbar and Für Mich from Thomas Dinger's 1982 album of the same name.
Listen to some of the tracks below:
Conrad Schnitzler - 1
Riechmann - Himmelblau
Pyrolator - Hamtramck
Thomas Dinger - Für Dich
Full tracklist:
- Karl Bartos - Rhythmus
- Camera - To The Inside
- Eno Moebius Roedelius - The Belldog
- Ulrich Schnauss And Mark Peters - Gift Horse's Mouth
- Lloyd Cole & Hans-Joachim Roedelius - Pastoral
- Riechmann - Himmelblau
- Harald Grosskopf - So weit, so gut
- Faust - Herbststimmung
- Conrad Schnitzler - 1
- Moebius & Plank - Osmo-Fantor
- Pyrolator - Hamtramck
- Kreidler - Alphabet
- Automat - RE 201
- Deutsche Wertarbeit - Deutscher Wald
- Thomas Dinger - Für Dich
- Die Wilde Jagd - Wah Wah Wallenstein
- Gut und Irmler - Parfum
- Moebius - Hasenheide
- Roedelius Schneider - Liebe
- Cluster - Zum Wohl