Various – Cafe Exil (New Adventures In European Music 1972-1980)

A Sunday afternoon of spinning records with Bob Stanley (Saint Etienne) provided film freak Jason Woods, fed up with the Brexit, with an imaginary soundtrack to David Bowie and Iggy Pop's favourite Berlin hangout in Kreuzberg, Cafe Exil, where beats, bohemians and intellectuals met and Bowie, in 1976, could recover quite anonymously from the (American) pitfalls of stardom.

The laidback atmosphere there - nowadays a neat restaurant: Horváth with two Michelin stars - was quite inspiring and resulted in Iggy's The Idiot and Bowie's triptych Low, Lodger and Heroes, on which they applied innovative European electronica influences with producer Tony Visconti, thus polishing their innovative image again. Stanley and Woods have a limitless imagination: Italy (Tony Esposito and Piero Umiliani), Paris (Cortex), our own Focus(!), Annette Peacock (New York pioneer of the Moog synthesizer) and Prague native Jan 'Miami Vice' Hammer, at the time already a pioneer on the Fairlight CMI. Furthermore a lot of adventurous British and even more German (krautrocking) people that get a lot of attention in the instructive liner notes as we are used to from Ace Records.