Harald Grosskopf – Glitches Brew (Vinyl)

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Tracks:
A1 Leisure Life
A2 Spheroids
A3 Flow
B1 Stranger Strings
B2 Panta Rei
B3 LiLaLu
B4 Kalter Lärm

Legendary Harald Grosskopf continues his long-
standing relationship with Bureau B with Glitches Brew, a vital new LP and the latest stage in his ongoing dialogue
with electronic possibility. The titular nod to Miles Davis’ masterpiece Bitches Brew reflects Grosskopf’s sense of
humour, while also hinting at the album’s underlying theme: the productive friction between man and machine.
Grosskopf’s career spans 6 decades of German music history. From early beat groups, through Krautrock propulsion
with Wallenstein, cosmic explorations alongside Ashra, and defining work with Klaus Schulze, he has consistently
pushed rhythm into evolving technological contexts. His 1980 solo debut Synthesist, previously reissued on Bureau B,
helped establish a sequencer-driven language that bridged kosmische tradition and modern electronic form.
Glitches Brew balances analogue intuition and digital immediacy, kosmische heritage and contemporary electronic
language. It is the work of an artist still following his own ideas, still excited by sound, still testing the edges. Sixty
years on from his first beat-group rehearsals, Harald Grosskopf remains what he has always been: a musician for whom
rhythm is liberation, technology is possibility, and the future is something to invent again and again.