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01. YOU - Electric Day
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02. YOU - Magooba
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03. YOU - Son Of A True Star
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04. YOU - Sequential Spectrum Part 1
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05. YOU - Sequential Spectrum Part 2
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06. YOU - Slow Go
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07. YOU - Zero-Eighty-Four
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08. YOU - (Bonus) E-Night
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09. YOU - (Bonus) H.Rays Identity
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10. YOU - (Bonus) Hallucination Engine
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11. YOU - (Bonus) Yousless
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ARTIST
YOU
TITLE
Electric Day
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
BUREAU B
CATALOG #
BB 073CD
BB 073CD
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
7/12/2011
The Bureau B label reissues
You
's
Electric Day
, first released in 1979 on the small German label, Cain. As synthesizers grew more popular from the mid-'70s onwards, an increasing number of groups swapped the classic instruments of a rock band for sequencers and synthesizers. Pioneers (and paragons) of this electronically-created music included, of course,
Tangerine Dream
,
Klaus Schulze
,
Manuel Göttsching
et al, who represent the "Berliner Schule" (in contrast to the Düsseldorfer Schule which developed around
Kraftwerk
and company). A hitherto less celebrated, yet outstanding exponent of the Berliner Schule was the Krefeld combo You.
Udo Hanten
and
Albin Meskes
teamed up with another iconic figure of electronic music,
Harald Grosskopf
, to issue two fantastic albums as the 1980s began. Without disowning their Berlin role models, You nevertheless came up with their own hypnotic mix of sequencer patterns, synthesizer melodies, pulsating drums and sporadic acoustic guitar phrases. Now and again they even ventured into experimental territory. Tracing You's path from the idea of founding a band to the release of their first LP, one encounters a host of illustrious characters from the electronic/Krautrock music scene.
Peter Baumann
, for example, a member of Tangerine Dream for so many years, was the first to hear the material played to him by Hanten and his guitarist
Uli Weber
at his Paragon Studios in Berlin. They also met Harald Grosskopf here, a member of
Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser
's "Kosmische Kuriere" and former drummer with Klaus Schulze. Grosskopf was a member of Manuel Göttsching's
Ashra
band at the time. Which just leaves the sound engineer, the legendary
Conny Plank
. It was he who suggested that You and Grosskopf get together to set up the Spiegeltraum Studio in Krefeld, with Grosskopf supplying the recording gear and Hanten the musical equipment. Grosskopf completed
Synthesist
, his most famous work, before You recorded
Electric Day
halfway through 1979. It now appears with four CD-only bonus tracks on Bureau B. The musicians: Udo Hanten, Albin Meskes, Uli Weber, supported by Harald Grosskopf (using the pseudonym
Lhan Gopal
at the time).
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