An intimate track based on an abstract drawing, a sublime sonic exploration into deep liquid space, some atmospheric minimalism and library music created under complete creative control.
50-minute mix with works by Cosey Fanni Tutti, Joel Vandroogenbroeck, Monolake, Pan American & Kramer, and others – realized between 1978 and 2025.
Featured cover art: Gas – Gas
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Cosey Fanni Tutti – Threnody
The minimalist, warm, dreamlike and intimate track unfolds like an emotional landscape. It is based on an abstract drawing of the same name that Delia Derbyshire’s artist friend Andy Christian sent to industrial music icon Cosey Fanni Tutti. He created it during an improvised evening when Derbyshire intoned and sang softly while looking at his drawings. (2025, Conspiracy International)
Monolake – Anamorph Iris
With a focus on sound design and soundscapes, Berlin-based producer Monolake, alias Robert Henke, raises the question of an analogy between the bird-like dinosaur Archaeopteryx and advanced digital technology. (2020, Monolake/Imbalance Computer Music)
Adelbert von Deyen – Per Aspera Ad Astra – Part 1: Mental Voyage (Bureau B edit)
With cosmic and mysterious sounds, Adelbert von Deyen creates a calm, hypnotic trance for the overture of the 25-minute melancholic journey Per Aspera Ad Astra. The debut album by the Berlin-based musician was intended as a tribute to electronic music advocate Klaus Schulze, as evidenced by the clear reference to his album Cyborg on the cover. (1978, Sky Records / RE: 2025, Bureau B)
Joel Vandroogenbroeck – Group Meditation
Continuous atmospheric sounds for enigmatic landscapes, metaphysical situations and prehistorical periods – these are the notes to Joel Vandroogenbroeck’s album with meditations. The Belgian multi-instrumentalist recorded it with complete creative control as part of a series with ambient and mood music for film and television documentaries in the late 1970s and early 1980s. (1980, Coloursound Library / RE: 2014, Aguirre Records)
Pan American & Kramer – Blind To The Last Of Its Kind
A sublime sonic exploration into deep liquid space by two pioneers of ambient music who spontaneously compose their always moving environments. (2025, Shimmy Disc)
Silver Apples & Makoto Kawabata – Mirage
Cross-generational collaboration between two innovators of psychedelia. In the Sixties, Simeon Coxe and his band Silver Apples brought electronic music techniques outside the academic world, using a synthesiser he developed himself. Makoto Kawabata is the leader of Acid Mothers Temple, a band with an ever-changing line-up that has been at the forefront of psychedelic rock since 1995. Here, Simeon’s keyboard and Makoto’s drone guitar feedback orchestrate an ambient poetry reading. (2009, Important Records)
Gas – Untitled
After pushing forward the electronic sound of Cologne as part of a network of likeminded musicians, labels and designers in the early days of German techno culture, the time has come in 1996 for Wolfgang Voigt to adopt a new moniker. With Gas, he focused on a particular type of atmospheric minimalism. (1996, Mille Plateaux)