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ELEKTRONISCHES DEUTSCHLAND, this month's Electronic Sound cover story, is made up of six connected pieces that take us back to the 1970s and a country then known as West Germany. Our main interviews include Hans-Joachim Roedelius from CLUSTER and Michael Rother from NEU!, who also joined forces in HARMONIA, krautrock's very first supergroup. And we've not forgotten KRAFTWERK in all this. Especially not with a superb Dolby Atmos mix of 'Autobahn' in the shops to mark the album's 50th anniversary. 

We have a magnificent orange vinyl seven-inch by CLUSTER to accompany this month's magazine. The two tracks are edits from the band's 1971 eponymous debut album, on which Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius harnessed oscillators, filters and tape machines to produce a record that's widely perceived as a blueprint for the evolution of electronic sound. ‘15:43’ and ‘21:32’ are momentous early sketches of what would become ambient music, a few years before Brian Eno stumbled upon the idea and collaborated with Roedelius and Moebius on 1977’s ‘Cluster & Eno' album. 

“Moebius and I were pleased by the reception for ‘Cluster’,” says Roedelius. “It was a sort of initiation of the whole krautrock movement that followed."

As with all of our music releases, this seven-inch is strictly limited and is only available to readers of Electronic Sound, so make sure you grab your copy right away.