EL-KA

Artist: EL-KA
P: 2006
This concert-registration contains of more than an hour of mid-seventies electronic music by HaJo Liese (EL) + Till Kopper (KA). The atmosphere of the Bochum Planetary is great. It's a perfect location for playing live EM. It's a real live-recording with a pleasant notable presence of the audience. The sequences are perfectly arranged with the classic Waldorf sounds. (KA) managed to re-produce those sounds of the PPG used by Tangerine Dream in lots of their recordings very well. So if you are in sequential/TD music, this is one for you.

Artist: EL-KA
P: 2020
5 different titles of the Berlin School style. All with their own character, but with role models from the EM scene, which you like to hear in this new guise.
Track 1 contains many analog sounds. The well-known flute of the mellotron gives the transposing sequences the right kick-back to 1975.
Piece 2 with a length of 21:15 minutes, a firework of different sequences and the nice analog sounding rhythm of a drum machine similar to a CR-78 give the music the stamp of 1977 (Body Love).
Piece 3 stands out, with sequences and Mellotron choirs that are doubled by a slight echo and are full of sound enjoyment for fans of a good hi-fi system. Here, too, the year would be dated 1975-1978.
Piece 4 comes closer to TD film music, as you heard it in "Thief" times in 1980.
Brilliant and certainly the highlight of the CD.
Piece 5 is similarly "Sorcerer" due to the use of the mellotron and analogue drums.
A great CD that the two musicians arranged and composed with passion.

Artist: EL-KA
P: 2007
This 2nd CD of the German dua EL-KA is a great collection of live performances at the E-Day 2007 festival. This truly live performed music with some prepared Schrittmacher sequences. Just 4 hands playing, no computers, no backing track at all. Classic EM from Deutschland in their own particular style and sound, EL-KA, sounds different and more authentic than other neo-Berlin School bands. Maybe it's because of the heritage of this music. Especially those sequences from the Schrittmacher/Vermona analogue synthesizer are a great joy to listen too. Four lenghty tracks named after the envelope controls which a synthesizer uses to shape the sound. The first track "Attack" expresses more or less their own style. The second track "Decay" reminds me of TD at their USA touring recordings. If you have TD's "Encore" CD then you will like this track too.
The third track is called "Sustain". This track sounds more like TD in their days of "Tangram/Thief/Exit". The last track is called "Release". Back to Phaedra and Rubycon it seems. Very enjoyable music.

Artist: Hajo Liese + Alien Nature
P: 2013
Berlin School sequences and vintage rhythms with some modern hints. Nice retro CD from the known artists Alien Naturen and Hajo Liese aka EL-KA.

Artist: Der Spyra
P: 2020
InSPYRAtion II is the live recording of the concert DER Spyra, Roksana Vikaluk and Hajo Liese played in Berlin.