04 SUR LA PISTE DE DANSE

Studio version of "Decade" from S.A.P.T. LP

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Decade(studio ver)

Over the last ten years a strange mycelium was sprouting from the ground of Germany’s sound topography, going widely unnoticed while creeping its way up through the copse of the ubiquitous “Neo-Kraut”, “Diskurs-Pop” and the like. We’re talking about a small underground network of artists and projects with poetic, mysterious names such as Brannten Schnüre, Baldruin, Kirschstein, Freundliche Kreisel and Balint Brösel. Operating in the margins and intersections of folklore, experimental electronics, dreams and nightmares, the “Gespensterland” LP archives and compiles their magick works for the very first time and already today it stands as a contemporary testament with an auratic presence comparable to that of Pordenone’s “Great Complotto”.

Gespensterland

Gespensterland [compilation preview]

With "Ein Bündel Fäulnis in der Grube", Holger Hiller presented his solo debut having left Palais Schaumburg. Originally released in 1983 on the Düsseldorf scene label Ata Tak, an international release followed in 1984 via Cherry Red Records. Combining electronic sequencer sounds and sampling fragments with unconventional lyrics its multidisciplinary approach locates it somewhere between the pop and avant-garde. Bureau B is now making the work accessible again on its 40th anniversary. Out November 24th.

Holger Hiller - Ein Bündel Fäulnis in der Grube [album preview]

'Drang' (from the German, meaning impulse, push, persistence) is the new album by Stromboli (Maple Death Records, Oltrarno Recordings), the project of Bologna-based musician Nico Pasquini. Encompassing pulsating noise, propulsive percussion, as well as moments of ecstatic flight, the album depicts a post-human world of ambiguous sentience, where the distinction between humanity and simulation has become ill-defined and illusory. In this sense, 'Drang' represents a paradoxical vision of rarefied perception and indeterminate forms, vivid energy and unfamiliar resonances, bold revelation and concealed currents.

Across twelve works of experimental electronic composition, Stromboli constructs music of absorbing abstraction, emerging with a confluence of imposing industrial reverberation and otherworldly ambient on the extraordinary opener 'Stamina', before advancing into the immersive, cinematic murk of 'Aechmea' and 'Fumo negli occhi', where the album evokes semblances of esoteric krautrock, if made for the year 2050. Elsewhere the hypnotic fourth world deconstructions of 'Hellblau', 'Tropico caustico' and 'Synonyme' shift into coruscating zones of abrasive impetus, suggesting imperfect traces within technological processes, while 'Antrieb' conveys divergence through a mercurial collage of atmospheric tape loops and raw proto-techno.

Throughout these moments and beyond, 'Drang' is both heavy hitting and enigmatic, an album that strikes an artful balance between elevation and discord, foregrounding original conceptions of noise, industrial and ambient, while incorporating reframed vestiges of dub, acid, drone, and electro. This exceptional sense of counterpoint and contemporary plurality continues into the album's closing stages with 'Exochorda', which explores fragmentary incursions of cavernous, arrhythmic drums and radiant trails of ambient sound, before 'Continuo discontinuo' closes proceedings with a subtle assemblage of gentle tone float, liquid FX, and subterranean distortion, transitioning from a series of implosions to a final beautiful dissolve.

Across a melee of aerial undulations, industrial debris, and autonomous circuitry, a remarkably distinct, cohesive sound materializes on 'Drang'; a strong sense of arrangement and identity that threads these tracks together and marks the album out as one of Stromboli's finest, most arresting works to date. Unravelling compelling dissonance and transcendent flow states out of conflicting elements and impulses, Stromboli creates an environment of astounding pressure and evocative lustre, affirming that in the post-human universe of 'DRANG', there's plenty of life to be found.

Release date: 25th September, 2023.

Drang

Premiere: Stromboli - Antrieb [Random Numbers]

Música: (Programación y sintetizadores: Huascar Rodríguez)
Voces y letra: Paola Vargas
Producción musical: Martín García
Logo y arte de portada: Pedro Rodríguez  @p3dro_ro
Cochabamba, 2023

Hipnosis

An adventure starring Serpent du mirail and Démission casually b2being at Brasserie Atlas studio in Brussels and exploring scarlessly their eclectic and sharp collection.

ZERO DE CONDUITE w/ Serpent du Mirail & Démission

Interior

Can You, Hear The Dull Scream

Encore performance, live at FUNK, Koprivnica, February 24/2024
supporting Buš? Bum!, Wojtyla and Mycena

Originally written and performed by Siouxsie And The Banshees
Siouxsie's original portrait by Ewan Fraser

Fireworks (Live)

Daughter of Flood (feat. Rubee Fegan)

music. https://soundcloud.com/mreguest/weather-oar-knot

GO GO GO! ft. Murray Walker (music. mreguest)

Inquiries: ✉ info@bureau-b.com ✉

Bureau B is a Hamburg based label which releases past and future classics unearthed from genres including (but not limited to) electronica, avant-garde, Kraut(rock) – a colourful spectrum of diverse, yet contigiuous musical genres. Applying the expertise deployed in trawling the archives, Bureau B has gone on to champion new and contemporary acts with similar musical sensibilities to their pioneering antecedents.

Holger Hiller - Ein Bündel Fäulnis in der Grube [album preview]

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