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Space Gems

by Klaus "Cosmic" Hoffmann

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1.
Rooftop High 05:57
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2.
Mystic Winds 04:08
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3.
Sequencer 05:37
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4.
Far Away 07:13
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5.
Wüstenschiff 05:04
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Opera Mellotronique 07:54
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7.
Spaceneighbours 04:38
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Passing Jupiter By 05:02
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Fly By 04:30
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Die Kosmische Abfahrt 07:29
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11.
Windvogel 04:42
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about

Born in 1951, Klaus COSMIC HOFFMANN-Hoock is a musician who experienced the world of music at first hand. From the early days of the Beatmania, the mid-60's Psychedelia and the wild era of Germany's 70s electronic Krautrock till today he has always tried to find his own musical way of expressing his thoughts and feelings with no interest in fashion or hype.
Those were the days in the 70s when homerecording synthesizers and the marvellous Mellotron still meant a cassette or tape recorder. It still was the 'analogue' pre-MIDI time before thousands and thousands of factory presets, computer plug-ins and digital tools appeared. The recorder's sound-on-sound function or primitive tape loops offered the sought-after echo. Multi-tracking had to be done by bouncing two recorded tracks onto another recorder while playing the overdubs live! Every take was an adventure full of emotions and discoveries.
In the last years several reviewers and fans of COSMIC HOFFMANN’s music asked him to publish more of his 70's music archive. With the new "SPACE GEMS" Klaus compiled a rather spacey blend of his original handmade (non-MIDI) electronic music from the period 1975-1979 with sequencers, Mellotron and vintage synths in the vein of Edgar Froese, Tangerine Dream or Schulze. Traces of unreleased song material of his huge archive could be found scattered over his previous CDs but now for the first time COSMIC HOFFMANN fully opened his 'magic box' of handmade spacey gems for this compilation of original electronic music.
Expect an interesting production of various electronic styles with a lot of spontaneous ideas and a long breath for moods and spaceyness.

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released January 1, 2016

Music composed, performed, arranged and produced by Klaus Hoffmann-Hoock.
Instruments used: Mellotron M 400 S + various tape frames, Mini Moog, ARP Odyssey, Roland M 100 Modular System, Roland drum machines, Italian organ, Korg PS 3100, Fender Rhodes Piano

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Klaus released his first album as Mind Over Matter in 1986 on the IC label. The musical style was typified as a meditative journey; melodic themes in an ambient space music style, full of gentle motion. Further releases followed as Klaus Hoffmann-Hoock and Cosmic Hoffmann plus many collaborations including with David Wright and Ian Boddy. His catalogue was assigned to AD Music in 2016. ... more

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