Bringing the sounds of Can, Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze firmly into the 21st Century.

Through the wonder of the internet, Space for Music has joined forces with Cologne, Germany's NEBULA DRONE. A recent addition to the SFM roster, these guys are performing it live and have created a very solid CD in the tradition of early pioneers of this genre. But they also have their own unique sound which makes them even more desirable and a band destined for further great musical excursions.

Guido Kopp, Peter Schueller, Clive Egginton - Electronics + Space Guitars = Nebula Drone

Nebula Drone - A Long fade into Virtual Light - Space For Music Records

As regulars know, we take great pleasure here at Krautrock Towers singing the praises of Nebula Drone. Well, we couldn't be happier with the new addition to Nebula Drone's canon, A Long Fade Into Virtual Light (Space For Music Records).

Recorded live at KunstWerk, Cologne earlier this year, A Long Fade… sees Guido Kopp, Peter Schueller and Clive Eggington move away from the Orbiness of Moondown (which can be heard by clicking here) and H@llucinogene to pastures more resembling the Berlin School, accompanied by an experimental vibe.

The title track opens an excellent hour of music and space ambience: the sounds of birds chattering are eroded by Clive's almost Fripp like space guitar, a sub-current of electronic bleeps runs underneath. This is in turn replaced by 10 minutes of sublime electronica, reminiscent of early Tangerine Dream, but utilizing digital technology. Lazy Polycrystalline Accordances continues the early Berlin ambience with swimming sequencers providing an atmospheric undercurrent. A cold robotic chant gives The Roswell Documents a chill down your spine, whilst Most Colorful Bubbles of Mud, after it's organic start is sequenced space music at it's best. Blue Opalescent Dialogue has an intro of spacey bells and chimes before an almost funky, joyful sequencer starts underneath Clive's suitably ambient guitar lines. Moving Back To Liquid Dreams suitably rounds of our live epic with a church organ sequence littered with electronic atmospherics, before collapsing into what can only be described as an aural equivalent of an HR Giger landscape, that after 3 or so minutes, finishes way too early.

The fact that this is a live album has no detrimental effect on your ears and an hours listening quickly zooms by. Be prepared to put your CD player on repeat play. Krautrock Towers will be singing the praises of Nebula Drone for sometime to come yet!