Various Artists - Electronic Rock [12", LP]

I found this fantastic krautrock compilation in the second-hand crates of a shop in the middle of Sweden last year. For the rest it was all 70's and 80's mainstream music there; the kind that you'll find at flea markets. The good thing was that the price was accordingly: i paid only 2 euro or so for this, while on sites like Discogs it goes for no less than ten times as much. Great bargain! ELECTRONIC ROCK has some really good tunes like Rheinita by La Düsseldorf, Dance Macabre by VC-People and Metropolitan by Hydravion, but my favourite one is definitely Europium by Zeus (= Zeus B. Held). Classic stuff.

Label: Strand / Teldec
Cat.nr.: 6.24719
Year of release: 1981

SIDE A:
01. LA DÜSSELDORF - Rheinita
02. MOEBIUS - Mirror Of Inifinity
03. SPACE - Space Media
04. HYDRAVION - Metropolitan

SIDE B:
01. RICHARD WAHNFRIED featuring KLAUS SCHULZE - Druck
02. LUTZ RAHN - Solo Trip
03. ZEUS - Europium
04. WOLFGANG BOCK - Robsai Part I
05. VC-PEOPLE - Dance Macabre

Austra + Gina X - Mayan Drums [12"]

This laidback song was released as a 12" for Record Store Day this year, and as far as i know it will not appear on AUSTRA's upcoming new album Olympia. It's a collaboration with legendary German electro/wave icon GINA X (and perhaps more importantly Zeus B. Held - look him up on Wikipedia if you don't know him). It doesn't say on the release but i've been thinking that MAYAN DRUMS might refer just as much to Austra's drummer Maya Postepski than to the actual Maya indians.
There are 5 versions besides the original on this 12", and Zeus B. Held's Voice Versa Remix is the one i like the most. Extremely limited release by the way: only 500 copies were made worldwide.

Label: Domino
Cat.nr.: RUG522T
Year of release: 2013

SIDE A:
01. Mayan Drums (Original)
02. Mayan Drums (Instrumental)
03. Mayan Drums (Vocal)

SIDE B:
01. Mayan Drums (Zeus B. Held Voice Versa Remix)
02. Mayan Drums (Doldrums Remix)
03. Mayan Drums (Hervé Retro Dark Dub)