Major instalment in Qbico's on-going documentation of the more obscure aspects of original Tangerine Dream/Kluster member Conrad Schnitzler's back catalogue is a vinyl upgrade of a terminally unavailable cassette originally released as the Red Cassette on Con's own label in 1974. More streamlined and structured than his experiments in aleatoric electronics documented on the Con '72 sides, this one crosses metronomic Industrial drum machines with strafes of analog gush in a way that sounds closest to Throbbing Gristle circa 20 Jazz Funk Greats. About as far removed from any notion of ‘Kosmiche' music as possible, this is classically alienated cold electronic threat as championed by long-term fans like Nurse With Wound. Comes pressed on a great black & white picture disc with Con in full Kiss-style berserker facepaint. Recommended.

Another excellent cassette on the great Mirror Tapes, Consequenz 010B documents a meeting between Conrad Schnitzler – still the greatest exponent of austere Industrial synth and electronics – and long-term collaborator Wolfgang Seidel. Recorded in an abandoned subterranean bunker beneath the Tempelhof Airport in Berlin, the atmosphere is suitably macabre and claustrophobic, with Schnitzler generating some of his most psychedelic creations, ranging from wobbly purple architectures of electronics through ominous blocks of silence torn apart by invasions of odd keyboard melodies and sudden bursts of noise. The feel is highly ritualistic, almost like a séance, and there’s a weight to the music that is lacking in some of Schnitzler’s later work, a seriousness and a weight of execution that makes this one of his best contemporary recordings. Edition of 250 copies, long OOP!