{"product_id":"harald-grosskopf-strom-white-vinyl-lp","title":"Harald Grosskopf - Strom - white vinyl LP","description":"\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStrom, from Harald Grosskopf on white vinyl LP, limited to 500 only.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYou don't really need to say much about this man: co-founder of Wallenstein, drummer on at least two \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eof the most wonderful Krautrock albums (namely \"Mother Universe\" and \"Cosmic Century\"), member \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eof the legendary \"Kosmische Kuriere\", records with Ash Ra Temple and Klaus Schulze. Finally, Harald \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGrosskopf switched from drums to sequencers and created something breathtaking. I listened to his \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esolo debut Synthesist (1980) to death, and few days began without \"So weit, so gut\". It was a record \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethat did everything right, that salvaged whatever could be salvaged from Kraut, adding the melancholy \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewith which one suddenly looked back on everything that could still be naively believed and played in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe 70s. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd now: \"Strom\". The evocation of electricity, the virtuosity of the circuit that skillfully intertwines \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eman and machine, an antidote to the triumphal march of desolate musical digitality. If you listen \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecarefully, you will immediately recognize the engineer behind the soundscapes. Right from the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eopener \"Bureau 39\", everything you would expect from Grosskopf is immediately there: the push \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etoward hypnosis, a subdued pulse, catchy, circling bass lines, layering Moog kaleidoscopes. Some\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etimes the sounds coarsen, the depths distort into grinding noises (as in \"Blow\"), into mechanical \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003egurgling, i.e. into what remains when the path comes to an end, when the music reaches beyond \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe human. The mid-tempo track with the programmatic title \"After the Future\", grotesquely \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etwisting the word “never\", points the way there.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTime and again, however, the beat pauses, leaving space for the soundscapes - and then, at the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003elatest, the electronica of the early 80s springs back to life. The two complementary pieces \"Gleich \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStrom\" and \"Spaeter Strom\" would also fit in wonderfully on Synthesist. On the other hand, the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eclosing track \"Stromklang\" remains resolutely committed to the sinister, even gloomy groove that \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewas previously unknown from this artist and with which he has finally returned to me after far too \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003elong. Stylo Kraut indeed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harald Grosskopf","offers":[{"title":"White","offer_id":49527879631187,"sku":"BB464LTD","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0897\/4516\/2579\/files\/download_4c1a5998-9577-4546-8c8a-3a4b36c9e0dd.png?v=1727878169","url":"https:\/\/mintandsealed.com\/products\/harald-grosskopf-strom-white-vinyl-lp","provider":"Mint and Sealed","version":"1.0","type":"link"}