Gnoomes, the Russian outfit who blend a potent mix of psychedelic stargaze, kraut techno and kosmiche pop return with a brand new album, Mu! their third for Rocket Recordings.

Bent Arcana is the product of five days' worth of improvised sessions which took place at John Dwyer's home studio in December of 2019. Aside from Dwyer and fellow Oh Sees family members such as saxophonist Brad Caulkins and keyboard player Tom Dolas, other participants included TV on the Radio's Kyp Malone on modular synthesizer, Sunwatchers bassist Peter Kerlin, violinist Laena "Geronimo" Myers-Ionita, and percussionists Andres Renteria and Ryan Sawyer. The music collected here ends up drifting in a few different directions, but they all share the free-form, cosmic music of the '70s as their starting point…

Over the course of the last decade, Standard In-Fi has taken on the task of illuminating some of the most exciting currents of underground music in France. Running like a thread through the label's output is Tanz Mein Herz, a collective of musicians pushing at the boundaries of folk tinged experimentalism, psych, and drone. Their latest - the double LP Quattro - is an absolute burner of throbbing, hypnotic sound and stunning creative interplay, and easily one of the best records we’ve heard in the early months of 2021.

Most of the tracks on this album from Camouflage band member Heiko Maile were recorded with a basic stereo (2-track) cassette recorder. The studio set-up looked more or less like this: a drum computer (no Midi) and a sequencer were connected to each other and synchronized rhythmically. I crafted melodic sequences and rhythms and usually transposed them to the desired pitch manually, using the keyboards. Other live instruments were played over the top.

The band’s line up for this legendary 1975 performance features all four original members—Irmin Schmidt on keys, Jaki Leibezeit on drums, Michel Karoli on guitar, and Holger Czukay on bass. Can Live in Stuttgart 1975 is the first in a series of Can live concerts available in full for the first time on vinyl, CD and digital formats. Originally recorded on tape, these carefully restored live albums will comprise the entirety of each show in the format of a story with a beginning, middle and end, with Can’s performances taking on a life of their own.

At last the debut album from Squid and it's everything you wished for and more. Bright Green Field is produced by Dan Carey and released via Warp Records. It's an album of towering scope and ambition, it is deeply considered, paced and intricately constructed. With all band members playing such a vital and equal role, this album is very much the product of five heads operating as one.

Towards the of 2012, Stephen Malkmus teamed up with two German musicians of his to cover Can's essential album Ege Bamyasi. It was played live on 2nd December 2012 in Cologne and committed to tape in glorious quality, veritably bursting through the speakers. An essential listen.

Autobahn is the fourth studio album by German electronic band Kraftwerk, released in November 1974. It was the band's first album to fully embrace the repetitive electronic sound they would become known for (although organic instruments still remained part of their sonic palette) and was inspired by the titular German motorway system. The radio edit of the title track became a surprise international hit, reaching number 11 in the UK, number 12 in both Canada and the Netherlands, number 25 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, and number 30 in the Australian chart. In 2015, the album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

The Man-Machine (German: Die Mensch-Maschine) is the seventh studio album by German electronic music band Kraftwerk. It was released on 19 May 1978 by Kling Klang in Germany and by Capitol Records elsewhere. A further refinement of their mechanical style, the album saw the group incorporate more danceable rhythms and less minimalistic arrangements. It includes the singles "The Model" and "The Robots". Although the album was initially unsuccessful on the UK Albums Chart, it reached a new peak position of number nine in February 1982, becoming the band's second highest-peaking album in the United Kingdom after Autobahn (1974).

The legendary German progressive jazz-rockers release their 2020 full-length.

Everyone knows these moments, hours or days, where one is feeling cornered, it is like running in circles or one is just trying to see something from a different angle. The new album by Sankt Otten - "Lieder für geometrische Stunden" ("Songs for geometrical hours") - offers tracks for these kind of scenes. It's the soundtrack of the ups and downs of life and everyone's entirely personal geometrical hours.

After a 6 year hiatus, Beak emerges with a new ep on Earstroke! Having published the majority of his work on the revered, but no longer active Monotonik net label, Beak's incredibly creative blend of guitar and electronic music is deserving of a new platform. His newest, Affection EP, turns to a darker sound featuring huge beats adorned with clips of family life, driven guitar, wild synth lines and a sense of urgency befitting the times.