You can hear in Kraftwerk, Neu! etc so many of the strands of house/techno/electro, and putting on this record after a dubstep compilation I can hear the sparse stabbings and paranoid retreats that characterise that strand too. OK, they don’t have subsonic bass throughout, but it still sounds like it could have been made in a Lambeth council estate.

Recorded by Eno and members of Cluster, who were members of Neu! (and I’ll leave it there before I have to write out a rock family tree), this was in fact made in an idyllic pastoral retreat. Between the simple, gorgeous sounds and melodies, rich with analogue warmth, depth and craftsmanship, you hear birdsong. Repetition is used to create texture and shape, and sound and digression give colour and weight. It sounds like some very smart people slowly working out new ways of thinking, which is really what it is. These songs could equally soundtrack 70s children’s TV or one of Adam Curtis’s paranoiac sequences of cut-ups.

This comes after Eno’s song-based masterpiece Another Green World, and makes a perfect bridge between that and his subsequent journey into ambient music. You can also clearly hear the sound palette of Eno and Bowie’s Berlin triptych here. That’s not to say that Eno pinched this and commercialised it for Bowie. This is more like folk, where ideas and sounds aren’t owned, and band members drop in and out of groups and seed ideas around for everyone to dip into.

So, this is on Spotify, and Amazon, and if you wanted an entry point with either krautrock or Eno, this is a great place to start. If you already have some idea about those two worlds, this is a beautiful addition to them.