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01. MICHAEL BUNDT - Full Steam Ahead
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02. MICHAEL BUNDT - Lunatic Love Song
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03. MICHAEL BUNDT - Terrania (Electri City)
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04. MICHAEL BUNDT - Android's Wedding
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05. MICHAEL BUNDT - March of the Martians
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06. MICHAEL BUNDT - Metagony
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07. MICHAEL BUNDT - Tower of Osc.
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ARTIST
BUNDT, MICHAEL
TITLE
Electri City
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
BUREAU B
CATALOG #
BB 225LP
BB 225LP
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
9/16/2016
LP version. Bureau B present a reissue of
Michael Bundt
's
Electri City
, originally released in 1980. Having played his way through the 1970s in various rock combos (
Medusa
,
Nine Days' Wonder
), Michael Bundt embarked on a solo career in the latter part of the decade, releasing three albums which saw him explore the vast potential of electronic music. Delightfully varied and typical of his willingness to experiment, his music orbits around krautrock, Berlin School electronica, space-futurism and synth pop.
Electri City
, his last album, was created in Bundt's own studio using a PPG synthesizer and a Teac four-track tape recorder. He worked on the mixes with a Revox tape machine, cutting and splicing by hand. Whereas he had enlisted guest musicians on the predecessor
Neon
(1979), this time around he did everything himself, except for two tracks which featured keyboarder
Steve Robison
(
Reiner Geyer
) who had played with Bundt in the krautrock band Nine Days' Wonder. The resulting LP is replete with experimental electronic music, psychedelic in places. Music which leaves the Krautrock of
Neon
far behind.
Electri City
is like a science fiction story: inquisitive, playful, energetic, willing to take the fantastic on board. Step sequencer miniatures flow easily through the music as it conjures up electrifying escapades of synth FX and distorted field recording fragments, laced with melodies heavy on portamento - all coming together in a complex, expressive musical structure that would not be out of place in a
Captain Future
film. Michael Bundt dedicated
Electri City
to the fictitious character
Kilgore Trout
who was created by the author
Kurt Vonnegut
. Trout appears in a number of Vonnegut's novels, usually described as an unsuccessful science fiction writer whose stories at best make it into pulp fiction comic books or the pages of men's magazines. Synthesizer music at that time was generally considered suspect, purportedly trivial, in contrast to the pure playing techniques so freely exhibited in progressive rock. Perhaps Bundt felt that this mirrored the fate of Trout's eminently readable works, Vonnegut's intradiegetic stories. But Michael Bundt was not going on the defensive with
Electri City
having already offered proof enough of his virtuosity. Michael Bundt cast aside his instruments and stepped away from krautrock, purposefully striving for a purely synthetic analog sound.
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