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andreas dorau - Demokratie (+Bonus)
**Beguiling pop experiments by one of Germany's most individual sonic pioneers and arranged by Michael Nyman. Includes 8-page booklet with extensive liner notes and archival photos** "German New Wave (Neue Deutsche Welle, NDW) reached its peak in 1983. In the public eye, Andreas Dorau was considered an important representative of NDW. But the sensitive artist had no desire to be thrown in the same basket as the terrible monstrosities of what had become a commercially exploited trend. Not that he felt any closer to the contemporary "underground" music of the day. "All far too dark. I didn't want to have anything more to do with music. Back then underground music wasn't allowed to be melodic. The dominant belief was: melody = stupid. And I wanted melodies." Dorau turned his back to the music business and moved to Munich and took his film studies seriously. Until one day Ata Tak founder Moritz Rrr called him up and asked Dorau if he fancied an informal exchange of ideas with artists from Berlin, no strings attached. He did fancy it and slowly but surely, he began to have fun again with music. At the same time, Dorau amassed a formidable record collection, largely from the 1960s. And so names like The Left Banke, Van Dyke Parks and The Move rotated on his record player. Such splendid music! The idea to make a new album dawned on him gradually. Dorau recorded, discarded material, wrote lyrics, overdubbed, arranged, discarded more material. So, he would rearrange, one track after another, so on and so forth. It was clearly a painstaking process. Still, a few songs fell into place. What he needed now was a producer. Off he went, to Birmingham to enlist his idol Roy Wood (The Move, ELO) as his producer. It could have been the beginning of a beautiful musical collaboration, if Wood had not happened to play an album by his favourite artist at that time. Dorau was back on the train to London before the first side of "No Jacket Required" had ended. Efforts to enlist Peter Thomas as producer also came to nothing and Dorau ultimately decided to take care of the job himself. David Cunningham (Flying Lizards) helped Dorau to enlist the English composer Michael Nyman as arranger on "Demokratie". Playing his songs to Nyman was a nerve-wracking experience for Dorau. After all, this was a serious musician. "Maybe it's crap", Dorau stammered. To which Nyman replied: "Oh no, it's Mozart." Music to his ears, so to speak. Why an arranger anyway? Dorau: "I always wanted music to sound different. Nyman is strongly influenced by Venetian music, in which instruments are played in untypical registers or scenarios. That was my aim for this album. I wanted to create pop music, as far as possible without guitars, simply different." Baroque pop / Roy Wood / Michael Nyman / melodies / no guitars, or thereabouts / electronics / Mayo Thompson also gets in on the act: an interesting mix? No, it's Mozart!"
Temporary Residence Ltd.
CD // £11.99
Maserati return, accompanied by Steve Moore and souped-up for an epic psych/post-rock trek.
STAATSAKT
CD // £11.99
**Eccentric German "proto-techno pop" for fans of Andreas Dorau, Felix Kubin, MoM**
Vinyl On Demand
2CD // £16.99
Vinyl on Demand issue this deluxe Double CD set - 22 tracks of Hi NRG synth disco. It's a beast!!!
Rock Action Records
LP // £17.99
*Includes download code redeemable from the label*
LA VAMPIRES WITH MARIA MINERVA
NOT NOT FUN
LP // £15.99
A long-awaited, deliriously sleazy full-length hookup between Maria Minerva and LA Vampires.
DIGITALIS
LP // £11.99
**Edition of 500, initial copies on super limited red wax - art by the man behind those ace Madlib sleeves**
Sub Rosa
2CD // £13.99
**Bespoke, 8-panel double disc set with 23-page booklet of in-depth liner notes and photographs**
Modern Love
CD // £11.99
*CD edition housed in an oversized 6-panel digifile, mastered by Matt Colton at Air Studios*
Very Friendly
CD // £13.99
William Bennett returns for a KILLER second album under the Cut Hands coat of arms.
Kranky
CD // £13.99
High class hook-up between Oren Ambarchi and Robin Fox, new on Kranky.
FatCat Records
CD // £11.99
Meghan Remy returns with her biggest, most complete record to date, landing fittingly on the Fat Cat imprint.
Soul Jazz Records
CD // £13.99
**Housed in bespoke box-edition hardcase CD with exact reproduction artwork**
Bureau B
CD // £13.49
**Includes two unreleased bonus tracks and 8-page booklet with extensive liner notes and photos**
Bureau B
LP // £14.49
**Beguiling pop experiments by one of Germany's most individual sonic pioneers**
Bureau B
LP // £14.49
**Surreal German acid-pop from 1992 by NDW pioneer Andreas Dorau**
MP3 Download // £6.99
FLAC Download // £7.99
MP3 Download // £0.99
FLAC Download // £1.10Bureau B
CD // £12.99
Bureau B kick off their reissue scheme for the legendary Ata Tak label with this lost classic of NDW pop.
Antworten Auf Brennende Fragen
Bureau B
CD // £12.99
Next up in Bureau B's reissues of Ata Tak classics is Andreas Dorau's radio friendly sophomore album.
Bureau B
LP // £14.99
Bureau B kick off their reissue scheme for the legendary Ata Tak label with this lost classic of NDW pop.
Bureau B
2CD // £18.99
Palais Schaumberg's self-titled debut is a cornerstone of early '80s German new wave...
Bureau B
CD // £12.99
Bureau B give new life to Roedelius' timeless, gorgeous 1982 issue of electronic chamber music
Bureau B
CD // £13.99
Decommissioned man-machine Karl Bartos presents 'Off The Record', his first new album in a decade.
LLOYD COLE / HANS-JOACHIM ROEDELIUS
Bureau B
CD // £13.99
**Roedelius and Lloyd Cole (he ov The Commotions) present a suite of searching, melodic synth music**
Bureau B
CD // £13.49
'Consequenz' was essentially "Conny" Schnitzler's 1st concession to the concise strictures of pop music.
Bureau B
CD // £13.49
**Reissue including five unreleased bonus tracks and 8-page booklet of liner notes by Asmus Tietchens**
HILDEGARD KNEF / HANS NIESWANDT
Hildegard Knef Remixed - 12 Versions By Hans Nieswadnt
Bureau B
CD // £13.99
Hans Nieswandt remixes songs by the legendary German chanteuse Hildegard Knef.
Prototype (Plus Garage Tracks)
Vinyl On Demand
2CD // £16.99
Vinyl on Demand present a killer compendium of early synthwave from Philadelphia's Experimental Product.
Rephlex
2CD // £13.99
Aleksi Perälä's 2009 album expanded for a double CD Edition.
R&S Records
CD // £11.99
Teengirl Fantasy confidently shake off the chillwave tag with a lush, proto-techno-pop suite for R&S.
Strut
2CD // £13.99
**Triple gatefold slipcase with 16-page booklet including liner notes and rare photographs**
NOT NOT FUN
CD // £13.99
Minerva’s deconstruction of dance music tropes continues with her much anticipated new album.
Night School
CD // £12.99
killer machine made psych-pop somewhere between Suicide, Julia Holter, John Maus and Peaking Lights.
CHAPTER MUSIC
CD // £11.99
Somewhere between the heroin-chic atmospheres of HTRK and Tropic Of Cancer's gothic romance.
4AD
CD // £12.99
An unholy welding of glassy, minimal rap production and the sort of robotic vocals Dubstar used to do...
