Durch Die Wüste (LP)
'Through the desert': Roedelius sets out on solitary electronic wandering. Spare, hypnotic keyboard figures and dry, shimmering textures conjure vast imaginary landscapes, early solo kosmische of quiet, questing beauty.
The Awakening Dream
A Dutch composer's private synthesizer odyssey, 1977. Andriessen conjures a 'trance symphony' on Minimoog and Rhodes: luminous, minimal and quietly euphoric, drawing on Berlin and Düsseldorf electronics rather than the concert hall.
Synthesist (40th Anniversary Edition)
A cornerstone of German cosmic music. Ashra and Klaus Schulze drummer Harald Grosskopf steps out solo, wedding propulsive live drums to shimmering sequencer bliss. 'Synthesist' is euphoric Berlin-school pop: melodic, driving, timeless.
STUNDEN
A quiet meeting of minds. Roedelius and Schneider let delicate electronic and acoustic textures unfold over 'hours' of patient, meditative music: serene, spacious and gently kosmische throughout.
Offene Türen
'Open doors'. Roedelius invites the listener into gentle, exploratory keyboard pieces, half-composed and half-dreamed. Warm, unhurried and melodically generous, the Cluster co-founder in intimate, searching mood.
Momenti Felici
'Happy moments', and it sounds it. Roedelius spins fragile, looping keyboard miniatures of great warmth and melodic grace, the gentler, sunlit side of the Cluster and Harmonia mastermind. Quietly radiant kosmische ambience.
Ophio
'Ophio' pulses with widescreen, motorik grandeur. Die Wilde Jagd carry the krautrock and kosmische lineage into the present: hypnotic repetition, choral swells and cinematic build, drama drawn out over long, patient arcs.
Live in Vienna 1980
Caught onstage in 1980, Cluster improvise an evening into long, mutating electronic landscapes. The duo's live telepathy in full flow, sequencers churning, textures blooming and dissolving. A vivid document of kosmische in real time.
Apropos Cluster
Moebius and Roedelius reconvene decades on, and the old telepathy holds. 'Apropos Cluster' drifts through supple electronic sketches, playful, warm and abstract at once, proof the duo's improvised chemistry never dimmed.
Call For World Saviours
A lost transmission from Britain's early cassette network. Carl Matthews builds patient, meditative electronic drones and tape textures: homemade ambient minimalism of quiet conviction, rescued from the margins of the DIY underground.
After The Heat
The second Eno, Moebius and Roedelius summit. Brian Eno joins the Cluster duo for luminous ambient sketches and vocal pieces of eerie beauty, a keystone where British art-pop meets German kosmische, from the classic Sky Records era.
Nachtstucke
'Nocturnes' from Germany's great electronic miniaturist. Tietchens assembles short, enigmatic synthetic pieces, cool, disciplined and quietly unsettling, poised between pop structure and pure abstraction. Essential early Tietchens.
Der Funfte Himmel
Tietchens at his most seductive. 'The fifth heaven' pairs the Hamburg sound-chemist's rigorous electronics with an unexpected melodic sweetness. Shifting synthetic textures, precise and strange: abstract music that still charms.
Nordborg
More deep-space synthesis from the reclusive cosmic voyager. Nordborg unfolds in patient, glacial layers of Moog and Mellotron: Berlin-school drift at its most oceanic and serene. A cult private-press artefact returned to CD.