Staff Picks: Silberland: The Psychedelic Side of Kosmische Musik

For fans of: Krautrock (or as the German’s call it - komische musik which translates to “cosmic music”

What they say: A near vocal-less affair, the 20-track double-album combines threads of both the Berlin and Düsseldorf schools, with most recordings laid down between the late ‘70s through the ‘80s — Riechmann’s “Weltweit” being one of the earliest recorded (Faust’s previously unreleased “Vorsatz” is an outlier, recorded in 1972). Each track contains constantly refining repetitious rhythms, often from a sequencer, with snaking, silvery synths and guitars overtop, each run through a series of effects that alternate between hijacking and complementing melodic impulses. - Aquarium Drunkard

What we say: Bureau B digs deep into their archives, bringing up a companion collection to their German new wave and post-punk compilation "Eins Und Zwei Und Drei Und Vier: Deutsche Experimentelle Pop-Musik", with this set of instrumental oddities. A collection of extraterrestrial electronic landscapes, sometimes angular and rhythmic, sometimes cosmic and mildly psychedelic, always cool and unexpected. - Jefferson