label: Bureau B (updated 10/2025)

DIE PARTEI was a one-off project featuring musician Tom Dokoupil <b>(Siluetes 61, The Wirtschaftswunder)</b> and the artist and musician Walter Dahn <b>(Die Hornissen).</b> The pair met up for a single weekend in 1981 to record "La Freiheit des Geistes" ("La Freedom of the Spirit"), a fantastic instrumental post-punk synthpop album. At times its forward thrust sounds cold, restless and hectic, at other moments it comes across as pleasantly winsome and melodic, plangent even. Film quotes and sporadic bursts of instruments (in particular Dokoupil's clean Vox guitar and a saxophone) flavour the music. "La Freiheit des Geistes" is an album of opposites in a state of mutual attraction, just as Dokoupil and Dahn intended. CD/LP/download

Die Partei: Rote Schuhe

Out on September 27th, 2024!

https://www.bureau-b.com/releases.php

Von Spar - Album I + II (album preview)

Das Kinn - Ruinenkampf [album preview]

"The enigmatic and expressive Chikiss breaks a three-year silence with Between Time and Laziness, a brand-new LP of dramatic and dreamlike synthpop perfectly suited to Hamburg’s unfaltering Bureau B. Written in St. Petersburg, Berlin, and Athens, and co-produced by Finnish multi-instrumentalist Jaakko Eino Kalevi, the album renders the existential, psychological, and philosophical in song form. Exploring motivation and self-doubt, the long shadow of the Soviet Union, and collective empathy with a cinematic flair, Chikiss weighs darkness and light, landing on the side of hope in her most considered and polished vocal album to date."

— Patrick Ryder

Music, vocals - Galina Ozeran
Mixing - Robin Hunt
Co-production - Jaakko Eino Kalevi
Guitar in "Nevesta" - Obi Blanche
Voice in "Intro" - Sergey Danilov
Mastering - Detlef Funder
Artwork - The Great Fruit

Recorded at different times in the former bridal gown salon in St.Petersburg, Atlas studio in Berlin and Mutual Sound studio in Athens.

released December 6, 2024 via Bureau B
https://orcd.co/chikiss

Between Time and Lazyness

Saeko Killy - Dream In Dream (Album, LP) (Forthcoming March 14, 2025) 
Pre-Order Vinyl/CD: https://tinyurl.com/46t3b5bn 
Pre-Order Digital: https://tinyurl.com/6fm7885s 
Label: Bureau B

+

SSServices: http://www.soundstationstrategy.com
Follow us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/soundstationstrategy
Follow us on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/soundstationstrategy 
Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soundstationstrategy

Pre-Order

Saeko Killy - Yokoshima

Post lockdown does not mean we need to fall back into the same patterns like we did before. This EP contains a smooth transition to a new reality. ULTRATERRENO is TAGLIABUE`s (@josephtagliabue) newest EP on the Berlin and Zurich based micro Label Lustpoderosa. 

The celestial sounds from the italian producer Tagliabue is a healing process of well tempered analog synthesizers. The cure is in the mix of pre dancefloor and ambient tracks inlcuding a slow trancy chug from well known and apreciated selector @AnatolianWeapons. 

Tagliabue is not just inspired by the afro cosmic heritage of Beppe Loda and Daniele Baldelli, but also from post-folk, rock, prog and kraut influences of 70’s and early 80’s, passing through New Wave and Synth Pop of Gaznevada or The Stupid Set and not to forget italians rave culture of the 90s with Franceso Farfa and Marco Dionigi just to mention a few. 

This very intimate EP is a meditative and transcendental journey to another world. Literally. 

Out on Vinyl and Digital in June 2020.
Distribution by Wordandsound

Preorder on Bandcamp!

Thanks to all involved. Special thanks to Joseph Tagliabue for his amazing music, Aggelos for the bombastic Remix, Tymen you are just the best, Cansur <3 I love you and appreciate so much working with you, Sneaker, thanks for your patience and all the correspondence filled with so much valuable information.

CGI Front: Tymen Goetsch
Layout: Cansur Ergun
Art Direction: Neu Verboten
Mastering: Sneaker at TailOut Studios

Bandcamp

**SNIPPETS**LPDR008 Tagliabue - Ultraterreno EP

04.08.20 - EHFM - Sounds Of Ogigia w/ Pako Vega & Kirsty P

#26 and its another favorite of ours, the wicked @clicklounge

Clicklounge is best known for his involvement in the reputable Opium Club, where he is regularly found both behind the decks and in the background curating their wicked lineups.

We've been tuning into his mixes for a long while now and have always been blown away by his ability to craft together such a unique atmosphere regardless of genre. 

For this mix we asked Clicklounge to show the darker, trippier side to his collection and the result is wicked. Hazey mid tempo burners that all come together to create a ceremony we want to be front and centre at.

People & Places 026: Clicklounge

Disco Not Disco Takeover presents: Known as the modest master of dark slow rhythms, Schwabe is at his best when he transcends genres and experiments with his immaculate collection of seductive rhythms, ambient music and ethnic influences. That's what he does in this mix for Mutant Radio. You may also know him as one half of TAPAN.

mix for mutant radio august

Schwabe [Disco Not Disco Takeover]

Sounds Of Ogigia is a new label inspired by ancient Greek gnosis, ritual practices and deviant sounds. 

The label is a crossover from the homonymous show for the Edinburgh based EH-FM which is presented by dj and promoter Pako Vega since August 2018.

The first release is by one of the strongest names in the game these days: Aggelos Baltas aka Anatolian Weapons @anatolianweapons. 

On this occasion, the Greek man is delivering a full-on eclectic EP with his unique ethnic touch. This four-track EP is a delicacy for the nonconformists; going from a Psych-Rock exploration and Dancehall rhythms to cathartic Slow-Chug and EBM belters.

The EP will be release digitally only on 21.11.2020 exclusively via Bandcamp.
Follow Sounds Of Ogigia on Facebook and Instagram for more information.

https://www.facebook.com/soundsofogigia
https://www.instagram.com/sounds_of_ogigia/
https://soundsofogigia.bandcamp.com/

Buy here: https://soundsofogigia.bandcamp.com/album/anatolian-weapons-cause-and-effect

Music by Aggelos Baltas
Artwork/Design by Vanja Rakic
Label run by Pako Vega

Anatolian Weapons - Cause And Effect EP (SOO01) [Snippets]

There is definitely something "afro" inspired about this latest EP from Puma & The Dolphin, certainly in comparison to pretty much everything else the mysterious Bulgarian project has produced, including a great EP for Canadian imprint Chambre Noire and some stellar inclusions on every one of Dj soFa's highly respected "Elsewhere" compilations. 

The story goes that while immersed in domestic life during lockdown in Sofia the music evolved to take in what was happening at home and saw the inclusion of toy instruments, drum playing, the voices of children playing and even the family parrots whistling and squawking in the background. These random ambient insertions when seen in the context of the hypnotic and percussive rhythms and timbres are oddly reminiscent of the late, great Francis Bebey who, although culturally and physically a million miles removed, was also known for recording much of his work at home and who also featured the voices of his children playing. 

In fact, it is as much the music's playfulness and simplicity that give the pieces their distinctive character, at times echoing the repetition and mesmerism of Raymond Scott's "Soothing Sounds For Baby" series. Yet, childrens' music this is not. There is a mysticism and depth on one hand and a willingness to experiment on the other that echoes the pioneering experimentalist K. Leimer's early Eno-inspired tape outings (check "Supermarket" for example). 

I asked Puma & The Dolphin's Nikko Names if he could share the story behind how these six tracks came together. He had this to say: 

"This collection of pieces were created during a monotone period of my life which I have overlaid with colour: a time in which I surrender to the beauty of home life - watching my kids play, feeding the birds - entwining these sounds of my surroundings amongst the rhythmic layers of these pieces. Playing the drums to remind us of the next circle dance for four. There is something mystic to travel only in your head; a shamanic trip inside the body with no concepts and answers."

Indoor Routine

INVINC 28 Puma & The Dolphin - Indoor Routine [samples] 12"/mini-LP OUT NOW

Third hour of our third Takeover on https://soundcloud.com/radio80000 mixed by https://soundcloud.com/ed-isar from Paris.

Ed Isar - Orbital Reflector Takeover #3 on Radio 80000 (20.09.2020)

Rich with FM synthesis, infectious rhythms and evocative motifs, Rester Partir transports us to a fantasised Africa, found onstage at a Lausanne Theatre in 1985. Scoring a story about a 19th Century French missionary’s trip to Timbuktu, Swiss composer Louis Crelier created his own sonic landscape, capturing the exoticism and otherness of an imaginary Mali. Though the hypnotic rhythms and cascading mallets conjure images of the continent, the queasy keys, dubby idents and synthetic sonatas suggest something more interplanetary - picture James T. Kirk and Spock beaming down into the ochre dust of a ruined city. 

Aided and abetted by a selection of ambient interludes, jazzy diversions and polyrhythmic excerpts from Crelier’s film work, as well as the exceptionally Balearic Deep In The Dale from TV series Alpine Academy, the largely unreleased compositions on Rester Partir finally break the fourth wall to find the wider audience they deserve.

Limited to 300
Out December 4, 2020

Words by Patrick Ryder

Rester Partir

A3. Louis Crelier - Scorbut (CDR001)

Purring and purring, she slinked along the skirting board towards the sweet scent of wet matter. Her blades undulated like a well oiled piston while her fur glistened in the half-light with natural polish. Turning casually to the right, her mirror image twisted back at her. Both froze at once, wide eyes locked. A few moments later, they proceeded to engage in a careful tango before going about their bored business once more.

Yu Su goes deeper into the depths of dub-wisdom with this latest release for Bangkok's Siamese Twins, a remix for Mogambo. The latter are a Thai-based duo pursuing mind expansion and bodily comfort through their outernational brand of psy-tronica and trance. The Chinese producer, though, gives their Goan beach comedown track 'Jeena' a renewed and almost sinister intensity. Unlike the levity of her previous dubby moments, such as her Technicolor outing Watermelon Woman, 'Jeena' is a more frowning interpretation that suits the current social climate: dark, cold and unforgiving.

PREMIERE: Mogambo - जीना (Jeena) (Yu Su Aroi Mak Dub) [Siamese Twins]

TASSILO VAN HŒFEN [DE, FRANKFURT]
@eshu-est

CTW129 • Tassilo Van Hœfen

New album "Der große Preis", out on November 13th, 2020. Preorder via https://orcd.co/neuzeitliche-bodenbelaege

Neuzeitliche Bodenbeläge is the musical vehicle of Niklas Wandt and Joshua Gottmanns. They released a single – Ich verliebe mich nie – in 2018 and an EP entitled Leben in 2019 on the Düsseldorf label Themes For Great Cities. Now the time has come for the Berlin duo's long-awaited debut album. The 7 tracks comprising Der große Preis distil the inimitable NB sound which blends velvety synth-pop and crystalline digi-dub, basslines like cubes of glass and whiplash snares. The album title certainly lives up to its name: The Grand Prize. This is adventure time, from wild romance to petty crime – it's all waiting for you right here.

Der große Preis

Neuzeitliche Bodenbeläge – Haare

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.

Neuzeitliche Bodenbeläge – Haare

Bureau B

Recent comments

COBEIA

Related tracks