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Deluxe - 50th Anniversary Edition

    When Harmonia made an album, it was about more than just music – it was about a vision. Released in 1975, Deluxe was the band’s second album. Compared to their debut, it focused more on structure, melody, and rhythm. Harmonia showed a more accessible side without losing their depth.

    Now, 50 years later, Deluxe returns in a special anniversary edition: a high-quality gatefold with previously unreleased photos and orange vinyl inspired by the original artwork. This edition is for collectors and anyone curious why artists like Brian Eno and David Bowie considered Harmonia a major influence – and why Deluxe remains a blueprint for electronic music today. Brian Eno once called Harmonia “the world’s most important rock band”¹ – a quote that captures just how visionary their music was, and still is.

    ¹ David Stubbs: Future Days: Krautrock and the Building of Modern Germany, Faber & Faber, 2014.

    TRACK LISTING

    Side A: 
    Deluxe (Immer Wieder)
    Walky-Talky
    Monza (Rauf Und Runter) 

    Side B:    
    Notre Dame
    Gollum
    Kekse

    Harmonia

    Musik Von Harmonia - 50th Anniversary Edition

      Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first Harmonia record 'Musik Von Harmonia', Gronland release this limited edition set, containing the original album and a second vinyl with reworks by Matthew Herbert, Stuart Braithwaite, James Holden and many more.

      The debut Harmonia LP, 'Musik Von Harmonia', appeared in 1974 (with an accomplished live track, recorded in Amsterdam) and marks the first collaborative effort between Cluster's Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius and Neu!'s Michael Rother: a German supergroup and genuine rarity, a colossal artistic success. The three members were skilled keyboard players, guitarists, electronic percussionists and composers. This was a group musically and conceptually miles ahead of its time. Musik Von Harmonia is at once a product of their source bands and a fine new twist on them, resulting in music that captures what for many is the Krautrock ideal, or more accurately, the motorik ideal. It's not Kraftwerk's all-synth, clean, clinical pulse, nor Neu!'s seemingly effortless glide, nor Can's stomping art world funk. Instead it's at once playful and murky, steady and mechanical, a supergroup of sorts who easily achieves and maintains such a seemingly overstated status by embracing a variety of approaches that work wonders.

      TRACK LISTING

      LP/CD1 - Musik Von Harmonia:
      1. Watussi
      2. Sehr Komisch
      3. Sonnenschein
      4. Dino
      5. Ohrwurm
      6. Ahoi
      7. Veterano
      8. Hausmusik

      LP/CD2 - Reworks:
      1. David Pajo - Harmoniumm
      2. Vittoria Maccabruni – Idle Place
      3. Ahoi (Herbert`s Fall Dub)
      4. Vittoria Maccabruni & Michael Rother – Wave By Wave
      5. Ahoi (Kaleema Remix)
      6. Ahoi (Tape Remix By Marta Salogni)
      7. Ohrwurm (Post Neo Remix)
      8. Veterano (Tape Remix By Marta Salogni)
      9. Watussi (Stuart Braithwaite Remix)
      10. Dino (Sqürl Remix)

      Previously available as part of the Harmonia - Deluxe box set, this album features live material and studio recordings showing them at their best.

      TRACK LISTING

      Tiki-Taka At Harmonia Studio In Forst (1975)
      Live At Onkel Pö In Hamburg (1975)
      Proto-Deluxe At Harmonia Studio In Forst (1975)
      Live At Farbrik In Hamburg (1975)

      Harmonia

      Musik Von Harmonia - Remastered

      Musik Von Harmonia is the debut album from the highly influential Krautrock/Kosmische Musik group Harmonia. Harmonia, was formed by the addition of Neu! guitarist Michael Rother to Cluster, the duo of Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius. They recorded the album from June to November 1973, in Forst Germany.

      Ned Raggett's review for Allmusic opens: "The debut Harmonia album is at once a product of their source bands and a fine new twist on them, resulting in music that captures what for many is the Krautrock ideal..." He adds "...it's at once playful and murky, steady and mechanical, a supergroup of sorts who easily achieves and maintains such a seemingly overstated status by embracing a variety of approaches that work wonders."

      STAFF COMMENTS

      Darryl says: Sublime Krautrock album, and one of the best in my humble opinion, from the combined talents of Michael Rother from Neu! and Moebius and Roedelius of Cluster fame.

      TRACK LISTING

      1 Watussi
      2 Sehr Komisch
      3 Sonnenschein
      4 Dino
      5 Ohrwurm
      6 Ahoi
      7 Veterano
      8 Hausmusik

      Harmonia was a Krautrock supergroup, containing Roedelius and Moebius from Cluster and Michael Rother from Neu! Recorded and released in 1975, this was a perfect combination of the sounds of the two bands, ESSENTIAL!!!

      Ned Raggett's review for Allmusic opens: "A touch more immediate and song-oriented than its predecessor, but no less enchanting and lovely to hear, Deluxe again features the trio experimenting with a variety of approaches, most particularly including vocals here and there for the first time."

      TRACK LISTING

      1 Deluxe (Immer Weiter)
      2 Walky Talky
      3 Monza (Rauf Und Runter)
      4 Notre Dame
      5 Golum
      6 Kekse

      Harmonia

      Live 1974

        The legendary Harmonia's first release in 31 years. While it's a live recording, there's no gig atmosphere - simply the sound of a band locked into a groove. "Live 1974" is a gig recording capturing Michael Rother (NEU!), Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius jamming with that typical impassive euphoria. It is more in the vein of their first album "Musik Von Harmonia": imagine the humming seascape pieces from "Neu! 75" augmented by the gently chattering rhythm patterns of Cluster's "Zuckerzeit". A recording that sounds as fresh as any work of their Krautrock influenced peers of today - Aphex Twin, Fujiya & Miyagi and Secret Machines come to mind. The five lengthy tracks here have an enveloping momentum that makes them feel like they could, or indeed should, go on forever.


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