Back To The Roots Of Berlin School by Erwin Broers

  At the beginning of September when I posted my "Sequencer City" mix, I said I'd been on a berlin school bender. Well, now three months later I'm still on that sequencer synth kick. At the end of October the analog synth itch was scratched by a stellar guest mix from Erwin Broers called "Capturing The Voice Of A Galaxy." It featured tracks from the Klaus Schulz label, "Innovative Communications. Now we have have a follow up mix from Erwin called "Back to the Roots of Berlin School." Oh man, this is some good stuff! Erwin tells me that "there's a whole sub-category of "Berlin School" out there called "Retro Berlin School". In the mid 1990's "Berlin School" was revived by nostalgic electronic artists who benefited from technological innovations to make the iconic analog synths such as the Mellotron, the ARP 2600 and the big Moog Modular more playable. The result was a huge resurgence of mid 1970's style Berlin School EM which was dubbed "retro" to mark the difference with the classics such as Tangerine Dream's Stratosfear, Klaus Schulze's Timewind and Ashra's New Age Of Earth." I hope my current obsession with this genre continues because I am loving every minute of it. Thanks for another great mix, Erwin. Cheers!   T R A C K L S I S T : 00:00   Redshift - Redshift(excerpt) (Redshift, 1996) 09:20   Cosmic Hoffmann - Shiva Connection (Shiva Connection, 2000) 15:00   Free System Projekt - And Then There Were Two (Impulse (reissue), 2005) 29:00   Brendan Pollard - Aquarius (Expansion, 2005) 31:17   Ramp - Phasenverzerrung (Nodular, 1998)  42:50   Javi Canovas - North Of Circle (Impasse, 2005) 56:42   Arcane - Dystopian Fictions (Gather Darkness, 1999) 71:02   end