Grosskopf, Harald

Artist: Harald Grosskopf
P: 2024
In 1966, as a student, Harald Grosskopf shared the stage at a beat festival with Rudolf Schenker, who later became world-famous as the Scorpions guitarist, but his life's path initially led the drummer and "electronic engineer" into the counterculture spheres of Kraut (The Kosmische Kuriere ) or prog rock (Wallenstein). In “Monsieur Séquenceur” Grosskopf relives important phases of Federal Republic music and counterculture history from the late 1960s to the present day. In his autobiography, Grosskopf tells in detail, dazzlingly and full of humor about his time in the so-called Berlin School (Ashra, Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream), which earned him the nickname "Monsieur Séquenceur" for his ultra-precise drumming, and about his excursions in the Neue Deutsche Welle or from the world-famous jazz festival in Montreux, where he accompanied his admirers from the techno scene, Ralf Hildentaschen and Oliver Lieb. Grosskopf talks about tours around the world and also reports on his current artistic work.

Artist: Harald Grosskopf
P: 1980 / 2014
Harald Grosskopf is best known as drummer in the band Ashra and for Klaus Schulze ("Moondawn") and as an electronic musician. Following "Synthesist" (1980, see below), "Oceanheart" was his second solo album. It may sound like a child of the 1980s, but in a compositional sense it is related to the Berliner Schule / Berlin School of the 70's. The reissue comes with a new artwork and was mastered from the original tapes.

Artist: Harald Grosskopf
P: 1984 / 2023
Ltd 500
Limited to 500 copies each, with the first record being the original "Oceanheart" album from 1984. The second part "Oceanheart Revisited" is a remix album, created from Harald Grosskopf and Tobias Stock, an electronics engineer and owner of a top-class analogue studio where the new versions of the six "Oceanheart" tracks were created.
Harald Grosskopf is best known as drummer in the band Ashra and for Klaus Schulze ("Moondawn") and as an electronic musician. Following "Synthesist" (1980, see below), "Oceanheart" was his second solo album. It may sound like a child of the 1980s, but in a compositional sense it is related to the Berliner Schule / Berlin School of the 70's. The reissue comes with a new artwork and was mastered from the original tapes.

Artist: Harald Grosskopf
P: 2024
"Strom": The evocation of electricity, the virtuosity of the circuit, which artfully intertwines man and machine and is set against musical digitality, which has become desolate in its triumphal procession. If you listen carefully, you will immediately recognize the engineer behind the soundscapes.

Artist: Harald Grosskopf
P: 1999
This music was composed and played 1980, just during and after his collaboration with Klaus Schulze. This was his first solo CD and all his musical forces he learned since the seventies was melt into this powerful music. Even the famous radiostation WDR 1 with the radioshow Schwingungen selectet his track: "So weit, so gut" as intro. So what to say about this all:
it is one of the best synthesizer CDs ever made.
 

Artist: Klaus Schulze & Harald Großkopf
P: 1980 / 2007 / 2016
Recorded live during concerts in Amsterdam 1979, Berlin 1976 and Paris 1979.
Drums on Track 2: Harald Großkopf
Voice on Track 4: Arthur Brown
All tracks conveiced, composed, performed live, mastered & edited by Klaus Schulze

Taken from the Booklet:
"..I own the original and complete Kunstkopf recording from the track that we recorded in Berlin, and I glady handed it over for this release. So, here you have now the complete 51 minutes of the title SENSE, instead of the shortened LP version of just 31 minutes..."
1995. KDM

The bonus track "Le Mans au premier" is the first 18 minutes from the concert in the "Abbaye de l'Epau" outside of Le Mans, France, which took place during the tour in October and November 1979.
2007. KDM

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Artist: Mind Over Matter
P: 1995
The four new tracks and the remixed "Air India" were finally released in 1995 on what is considered to be one of the greatest albums of Mind over Matter, "Palace of the Winds" (IC 2243-2). The album has a beautiful cover of a Tibetan ritual and even features three bonus tracks: an edited version of "Shangri-La", a live-track by M.O.R.E. recorded in Nijmegen in November 1993 ("Himalaya") and a surprising electronic piece from 1976 named after Tibet ("Roof of the World"). Most of the new album was featured during five concerts in Sonsbeck-Hamb and Erkrath in September and November 1995. Klaus also found the time to play sitar on the album "The House of S. Phrenia" by the great German band Solar Project and to release another older track, the high-speed electronic masterpiece "Rohan Rider" from 1980. This highly recommended short track, based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien.

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Artist: Harald Grosskopf & Steve Baltes
P: 1998 / 2004
Named after a modern art show in 1998, Tower of Power was previously only available to attendees of the show as part of the events catalogue. Thankfully the general EM-buying public can now hear this very good music by Steve Baltes and Harald Grosskopf.
Four lengthy sonic excursions are allowed room to grow, starting with the rhythmic gyrations of “Space”. Modern and edgy, it’s a little hard to describe, straddling the borders of trance, techno, Berlin school, and prog rock, not necessarily in that order. Mainly, it’s about beats, but there are times that the synthesizers are permitted center stage to float about. I can think of nothing to compare it to really, and I love it. Great energy, great sounds, great music.
“Speech” starts with rapid-fire clipped vocal samples, literally going “dop-dop-di-da-dop,” or something along those lines. This phrase becomes a mantra, melding with the rest of the percussion. Again the sound is much more forward than retro, and the rhythms are practically the lead instrument. Amusingly, “Speed” moves along at a leisurely pace, at first quite formless but Baltes and Grosskopf can never leave the beats behind for long, and they pound forcefully along, occasionally dropping back to allow the electronics to play and stretch a bit.
sounds very much like “Crazy Snake” from Four Times Three with Baltes, Grosskopf, and Heilhecker, without the screeching lead synth line, thankfully.
Again the rhythm is king, and it carries through to the end.
Originally released as limited edition for a live performance of MISCHA KUBALL at "Tower Of Power" art performance, Hannover 1998.

Artist: Mario Schönwälder feat. Harald Grosskopf
P: 1992
Soft cosmic pads and tinkling bell like percussion give 'Moogazyn' a very relaxed start. In the second minute a deep bass rhythm (that will test the speakers) starts up. It is relatively slow in pace but even so will get those ornaments shaking on the shelves. I could just hear a sequence starting to build low in the mix. Lead lines come and go but they are rather subtle, playing a supportive role to the rhythmic content. Some will find this track simply too repetitive but I found it, as the album title suggests, rather hypnotic but also powerful stuff.

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