You probably don't need us to translate ELEKTRONISCHES DEUTSCHLAND for you. But to expand on that a little, we're heading back to the 1970s and a country then known as West Germany for this month's Electronic Sound cover story. We're bundling the issue with an exclusive orange vinyl seven-inch by kosmische pioneers CLUSTER too.

Our cover image is based on the artwork of the debut album from HARMONIA, krautrock's first supergroup, and you will find five connected articles inside the magazine, including interviews with Hans-Joachim Roedelius [ of CLUSTER and Harmonia ] and Michael Rother [ of NEU! and Harmonia ]. DAVID BOWIE and BRIAN ENO, both of whom played major parts in the development of electronic music in Germany during the 1970s, feature heavily. We also speak to Wolfgang Seidel, the author of a new book called 'Krautrock Eruption', and we haven't forgotten KRAFTWERK in all this, of course. Especially not with a fabulous Dolby Atmos mix of "Autobahn" in the shops to mark the album's 50th anniversary.      

Elsewhere in the issue, Clock DVA’s Adi Newton and Meat Beat Manifesto’s Jack Dangers give us the lowdown on their terrific SOON project, which you really don't want to miss. Plus arch eccentrics THE RESIDENTS, unstoppable noise duo BENEFITS, the dazzlingly inventive COCOROSIE, modular marvel LOULA YORKE, rave legends K-KLASS, the genre-flipping ADWAITH, psych-jazzers SPACE BLANKET and tons more. Does anybody know how to say "chock-a-block" in German?  

We also have a magnificent orange vinyl seven-inch by CLUSTER to accompany this month's magazine. The two tracks are edits from the band's 1971 eponymous debut album, on which Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius harnessed oscillators, filters and tape machines to produce a record that's widely perceived as a blueprint for the evolution of electronic sound. ‘15:43’ and ‘21:32’ are momentous early sketches of what would become ambient music, a few years before Brian Eno stumbled upon the idea and collaborated with Roedelius and Moebius on 1977’s "Cluster & Eno" album. 

“Moebius and I were pleased by the reception for "Cluster",” says Roedelius. “It was a sort of initiation of the whole krautrock movement that followed."

As with all our music releases, this record is strictly limited and is only available to readers of Electronic Sound, so make sure you get your copy right away.