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Rolf Trostel
12+ albums
electronicambientinstrumentalgermannew age
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Rolf Trostel is a German musician who plays classical electronic music combined with modern ambient soundscapes. Rolf Trostel brought, relatively, fresh wind with his albums, "Inselmusik", "Two Faces", as well as "The Prophet", at the beginning of the 80s, into the electronics scene run, when it was coming into a Punk, new Wave and/or new German wave. With the brand of new digital PPG Wavecomputer 360, he produced sounds, at the time hinted by the near-handed (already) atmospheres of today's Tech-tone, for the prototype of the Drumcomputers. The first two albums, published in a self direction, as well as the "Prophet" work, for which the Norwegian Uniton Label won the copyright, came restored, about twenty years later, not only in a compilation, but in an accesible format. Berlin label Manikin took care of Rolf Trostel's cultural inheritance and published his three early eighties albums into a double CD, since the Vinyls are hardly a future generation's remaint. The rough entire of the works Rolf Trostel achieved reminds of ASHRA ("Correlations"-like);even with the guitars missing, the rhythms and the aesthetics are a plus (since the Electronic Wave was, back then, arising. Rolf Trostel also released "The Narrow Gate To Life", in 1983, this fourth expression being the most obscure of all. To the gentle idea that that Trostel's electronic fixations is equal to ASHRA's late motivations (or even to some Jarre digital attitude, by other reviewer's random call), there can be a
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Der Prophet
Inselmusik
Two faces
Silberland - Vol. 1: The Psychedelic Side of Kosmische Musik (1972-1986)
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Deutsche Elektronische Musik 2 - Experimental German Rock And Electronic Music 1972-83
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Narrow Gate To Life
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Deutsche Elektronische Musik 2 - Experimental German Rock And Electronic Musik 1971-83 [Disc 2]
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Two Faces (bureau b Edit)
Deutsche Elektronische Musik 2: Experimental German Rock And Electronic Musik 1971-83
Deutsche Elektronische Musik 2
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